tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24283189152030421842012-01-21T19:57:16.474+01:00A diary by Josep Carles LaínezJosep Carles Laíneznoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428318915203042184.post-143552586829434252009-12-11T23:45:00.003+01:002009-12-12T00:33:52.962+01:00<div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#663333;">I</span></strong>’ve begun to read <strong>Mircea Eliade</strong>’s two last volumes of his <em>Journal</em> in the English translation. They were published by The University of Chicago Press and I ordered them to an Arizona bookstore. A long travel from there! I’m studying some aspects of Eliade’s work for an upcoming issue of a journal on Metapolitics, and I’m impressed for his vitality and his desire to write day after day. I understand him. Writing is not just creating, it’s an addiction.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2428318915203042184-14355258682943425?l=someotherwords.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Josep Carles Laíneznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2428318915203042184.post-43392732670182117562007-01-10T15:17:00.001+01:002009-01-10T15:23:53.591+01:00<div align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eu3XzaqF1YY/SWiuU_CaP8I/AAAAAAAAAWI/_ivcSRPrNBE/s1600-h/Cultura+visual+contemporánea003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289669437888806850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 191px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eu3XzaqF1YY/SWiuU_CaP8I/AAAAAAAAAWI/_ivcSRPrNBE/s320/Cultura+visual+contempor%C3%A1nea003.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Jorge Sebastián</strong> (ed.)<br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Cultura visual contemporánea</span></em></strong><br />Valencia, Fundación Mainel, 2007</div><div align="center">*</div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">T</span></strong>his book gathers the contributions to the <strong>IX Symposium “Contemporary Visual Culture”</strong>, organized by the <a href="http://www.mainel.org/">Mainel Foundation</a> in Valencia City (Spain) in 2006. For the Round Table Discussion on the topic “Myths for the Masses and Visual Media: From Olympus to Coated Paper”, I wrote an essay entitled <strong>“Elementos para una ética heroica”</strong> [“Elements for a Heroic Ethics”] in Spanish. In it, I analyze the role of myths in the building up of the European imaginary and the way it is depicted in modern film and music productions.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2428318915203042184-4339273267018211756?l=someotherwords.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Josep Carles Laíneznoreply@blogger.com0