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Hello! And we already know which teams will face each other in the quarterfinals to define next week’s World Cup champion. How are the bets going?
Meanwhile, the In-Edit festival continues its march and ends next Monday. Do not miss it and take advantage of watching the best of Chilean and foreign documentary about the music of recent times.
In this edition: the evangelical song recorded by Caetano Veloso, the tropical world that existed in the Arctic and the neurosurgery performed by the Incas.
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1- ALEJANDRO ARAVENA: “YOUTH IS ANOTHER OF THOSE PROBLEMS THAT ONLY CONCERN ARCHITECTS”
The winner of the Pritzker Prize was in Madrid, where he participated in a talk with Norman Foster himself, and gave an extensive interview to the newspaper El País, in which he exposed the keys to his thought.
Aravena is known for his contribution to the issue of social housing, such as the Quinta Monroy neighborhood in Iquique, and for saying, among other things, that favelas are not a problem but part of the solution, in a Latin America where millions of people live in informal homes.
“I was brought up in a context where the architect is asked to have full control over the project he executes. But making homes is more of a process than a product. When I look out my office window and see the millions of square footage that both real estate and self-construction produce outside of architecture, I think it’s naïve to believe that one can control such great forces, and we shouldn’t pretend to suppress or replace them. They are like a wave that you, ideally, get to channel,” was one of his comments.
He also pointed out that “housing is one of those problems that, although they are rough, are very genuine, and we must remove the false problem component of academic discussions. And it’s good that one as an architect learns that this game does not allow euphemisms, that it moves on another scale.”
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2- THE BOOK ABOUT THE RAPE OF THE CREATOR OF TINTIN THAT NOBODY WANTS TO PUBLISH
I am of the generation that grew up reading the comics of Tintin and his dog Snowy or Asterix and his partner Obelix, when there were no cell phones or tablets and you had to wait until Sunday to see cartoons. That is why this news has moved me.
Because it turns out that an investigation has caused an investigation in France into the alleged abuses suffered by Georges Remi (1907-1983), better known by his pseudonym Hergé, the creator of the world-famous Tintin.
The text by philosopher Mark Alizart has been rejected by several publishers, who fear being involved in a legal dispute, since an uncle of the artist is accused of having committed the crime.
The author carried out an investigation of the case taking into account Hergé’s comics.And although suspicions about the abuses are not new, for the first time clues have been sought in the Belgian cartoonist’s own work.
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3- CAETANO VELOSO RECORDS AN EVANGELICAL SONG
I am a great lover of Brazilian music from the 70s and 80s, especially Caetano Veloso. How can we forget his interpretation of “Cucurrucucú paloma” in the film Talk to her by Pedro Almodóvar? Or the free concert he gave at Plaza Italia in Buenos Aires, for the 2010 Book Fair? If even in the pandemic I saw a concert of his by streaming.
Well, now it turns out that, although he declares himself an atheist, the 80-year-old teacher has recorded a song with the singer and pastor Kleber Lucas, 54.Se called “Deus cuida de mim” (“God takes care of me”) and both presented it in one of the most famous programs on Brazilian television.
When asked why, he only replied, “I think it was God. That’s the only thing I can answer.” Veloso is still active and on tour, although he had to suspend the current one after being diagnosed with Covid.
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4- INCAS PERFORMED COMPLEX SURGERIES
The BBC published an interesting article about the medical capabilities of the Incas, more advanced than previously believed.
The note focuses on a skull from the Inca cemetery in the Yucay Valley, and which was described at the time by the American amateur archaeologist Ephraim George Squier, in the nineteenth century, who was struck by the fact that it had a rectangular perforation, which pointed to a trepanation.
Squier published a text on the subject in 1877, but received much criticism, at a time when the mortality rate in these operations was 90%. However, he did not give up and took him to France, where an eminence of the time, Paul Broca – professor of external pathology and clinical surgery at the University of Paris and founder of the first anthropological society – concluded that the patient had survived the operation.
And although at first it was believed that this operation had been carried out for religious reasons, apparently it was indeed for a medical issue, with a technique that goes back thousands of years.
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5- SUNDANCE WILL RETURN TO FACE-TO-FACE FORMAT IN NEXT EDITION
After two years, the independent festival founded by veteran actor Robert Redford will finally return live from January 19, from the mountains of Utah.
The organizers announced that this time the focus of the event will be the themes of fame and sex, with films about figures such as Brooke Shields and musician Little Richard.
There will also be works by figures such as Anne Hathaway, Emilia Clarke, Jason Momoa and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
In the contest, Chilean figures such as the filmmaker Francisca Alegría have stood out, who won there with her film Y todo el cielo cupo en el ojo de la vaca muerta.
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