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Sunday, February 1, 2026

Historians of the Recursive Present: From Noble Archives to Urban Socioplastics in the POSTORY Constellation – A living cartography of agents across mnemohistory, art, and epistemic sovereignty –

The constellation of external researchers in the POSTORYα initiative reflects a dynamic epistemic field where historiographical practice merges with cultural sovereignty, bridging disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, architecture, political theory, and contemporary art through a mnemohistorical lens; Antonio Terrasa, a scholar of early modern nobility and political natures, contributes from CIDEHUS–Évora and engages POSTORY through the recursive question of memory and legitimacy; Clara Ramas, with a rigorous trajectory in Marxist critique, ontology and modern political forms, anchors her contribution in a structural understanding of subjectivity and state logic, both within and beyond her institutional roles at Más Madrid and academia; Concepción Cortés articulates a groundbreaking approach to non-human agency in contemporary art, positioning animals not merely as symbolic figures but as interlocutors and epistemic co-producers in post-60s art ecologies; Anto Lloveras, an architect-curator operating from LAPIEZA Art Series, develops the Socioplastic Console as a recursive cultural machine that metabolises archival, spatial and narrative inputs through a ten-valve sovereign stack, generating epistemic heat and resisting algorithmic flattening; Marc Morell, with a focus on urban class differential, expands Boissevain’s touristic anthropology toward critical analyses of spatial commodification in the Mediterranean, linking housing struggles to financial expropriation; Domingo Centenero revives the ambiguities of Castilian urban politics and Iberian imperial tensions, integrating early modern conflictualities with present questions of sovereignty and autonomy; Adrián Almazán, a philosopher-physicist hybrid, forges ties between ecological transitions, material critique, and techno-social paradigms, placing epistemic resistance at the core of postcapitalist ethics; collectively, these researchers embody POSTORY's hypothesis: that contemporary historical craft is not merely archival but strategically insurgent, operating across media, institutions, and disciplines to produce mnemonic infrastructures fit for contested presents; in this arrangement, POSTORYα becomes more than a research group—it acts as a multi-sited epistemic device, grounding political memory in recursive dialogue with urbanism, art practice and techno-semiotic resistance. –

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Human Rights and Culture Congress ** Gentrification, turistization and memory * UAM Madrid

The focus on cultural ecology within socioplastics encourages a continuous state of mutation that challenges rigid structures, fostering adaptability and resilience. Socioplastics thus transcends mere artistic expression, becoming an active force in reshaping communities and their environments, counteracting the homogenizing effects of gentrification and promoting sustainable coexistence. It calls for a deeper understanding of the symbiotic relationship between people, place, and memory, inviting both artists and citizens to participate in a collective, transformative dialogue that resists exclusion and amplifies cultural diversity.

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Today's world faces political, social, economic and

cultural challenges that require urgent responses. The rise of ultranationalist and xenophobic governments puts democracy, multilateralism and respect for human rights at risk. Violence is expressed in multiple ways, from aggression and war, but also from structures that perpetuate poverty and social inequality and impede the full development of the human being. Overcoming relationships of violence, peacefully transforming conflicts and moving towards a culture of peace is urgent and requires the commitment and involvement of the academic community in articulation with social movements. The purpose of the congress is to create a space for meeting and debate between researchers and researchers, social movements and civil society organizations on theoretical and practical aspects, challenges and challenges related to human rights, democracy, the culture of peace and nonviolence , as well as formulate proposals that contribute to forming peaceful, inclusive and respectful societies with human rights. The congress is structured in three axes: Culture, Democracy and Human Rights organized in panels of debate between personalities of national and international prestige, round tables with representatives of civil society organizations and presentation of communications on experiences and academic work related to the topics congressional.

Friday, January 2, 2026

PLATO COMBINADO ___________ LA NUEVA MONTERA * 2019

LA MESÓN DE PAREDES rebosa gente. Locales repletos. Los paquis venden a todas horas. Sin límite. Los cafetines cafelatte están llenos de jóvenes turistas y locales autónomos trabajando online. El trapero yungbeef se pasea por la plaza recién lavada a chorro con mirada esquiva. Lo veo desde mi café mañanero. Voy alrernando, infiel al despertar. El joven trapero entra en una peluquería afro llena de gente, y dos mulatas, que escuchan música sentadas en la puerta con sus móviles a todo gas, ni se inmutan. Por supuesto no escuchan canciones del jovenbeef, ni de ctangana, las notas visibles de nuestro trap urbano; sino repiten una y otra vez los últimos ritmos de Badbunny, tal vez el nuevo rey del pop caribeño. Las sinergias relacionales parecen fluir mejor en el mundo latino que en el ibérico. Badbunny ya homenajeó a casi todos sus maestros en sus primeras barras, los cita en sus rimas y colaboran asiduamente, incluido el OMEGA de Santo Domingo, que sigue entre rejas. Los reiterados disstracks entre los chavales hispanos inhiben colaboraciones que generarían otro músculo más exportable de la música local. No se alientan entre sí. Aquí mejor romperse a hostias verbales que subir juntos. Los políticos igual. Nada en común. Ni programa ni actitud. Da grima.

Sigo caminando cuesta arriba y paso junto a los cines IDEAL, muy remozados y anodinos, viva el popcorn, donde está ya formada la fila junto al muro para la ración de comida diaria. Hay pan. La exhibición de los hambrientos frente a las parroquias es un clásico de la caridad cristiana madrileña. Predominan los hombres, de ropas marrones y con fardos. En la acera junto al túnel está sentado muy tranquilo un clásico del boxeo madrilleño, el Potro de Vallecas. Tuvo mejores días, pero sigue vivo, la droga no ha podido con él. Me alegra que venga a comer y buscarse la vida por el centro. En Sol las latinas con plumas sobre el trasero se mezclan con los ositos y otros muñecos peluche de la televisón, habitados todos por un trabajador de parque temático autónomo. LOS LÍMITES en la regulación y en la apolicación de las normativas es una las claves de la calidad de vida en Madrid. Llenamos estadios y calles en cada fiesta programada. Nos gusta el teatro, la zarzuela, las raves, el cine, los toros, las performances, el vermut, el yoga, las cañas, el flamenco, las copas, los vinos, las raciones, las tapas, y los platos combinados, a unos más que otros, los pepitos de ternera, las bravas y cada vez más el sushi, el poke y los tacos de carnitas. Modas que llegan. Sigo bajando por la calle Carretas que ya es LA NUEVA MONTERA. Todo nuevo eje peatonal es una fábrica de ciudad decorado. La noche es otra fauna, y las prostitutas afloran y la policía transita sin molestar a nadie.

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The streets are full of people. Stores are full. The indians sell everything at all hours. The coffee shops are full of young tourists. The yungbeef walks through the square with a clumsy look. I see him enter the afro hairdresser from my morning coffee table. The mulatto girls who listen to music sitting at the door with their mobile phones at full throttle are immuted. Of course they do not listen to his latess songs, or tanganas, our local heroes of the urban trap, but repeat again and again the last rhythms by BadBunny, perhaps the new king of hispanic pop. Relational synergies seem to flow better in the Latin world than in the Iberian one. Bunny has already paid tribute to almost all of his teachers, he quotes them and they all collaborate, including the classic dominican omega,el fuerte de santo somingo, which is still behind bars. Repeated diss tracks inhibit collaborations that would generate another more synergistic muscle in their music carrers. Here the key is better to break the rival than to climb together. The politicians alike. Nothing in common. Neither program nor attitude. I continue walking uphill and next to the ideal cinemas, very renovated and bland, popcorn kingdom, the line is already formed next to the wall for the daily food ration. The display of the hungry in front of their parishes is a classic of the Christian charity of Madrid. Men predominate, in brown clothes and bales. On the sidewalk today a boxing classic from Madrid, el potro de Valllecas, poli diaz sits very calmly. He had better days but he is still alive, the drugs have not been able to wash him away. I'm glad he comes to eat and look for some streetlife in the city center. Down in sol, the Latin women with feathers on their buns are mixed with the bears and other dolls from tv shows, all of them inhabited by an autonomous theme park worker. Non-regulation is one of the keys to the quality of life in Madrid. We fill stadiums and streets at each scheduled party. We like the theater, the zarzuela, the raves, the movies, the bullfights, the performances, the vermouth, the yoga, the reeds, the flamenco, the glasses, the wines, the portions, the tapas, and the dishes combined,some more than others, veal in breas, bravas and every time we eat more sushi, poke and tacos. I keep going down carretas that is already the new montera. Every new pedestrian street makes the city a new scenography and a new play. The night is inhabited by another fauna. Prostitutes emerge and the police travels without disturbing anyone. We don't like to be told where to go or what to do, we are voracious and we take everything at reach.