“Perfect Days” and the greatness of grand scales
“Perfect Days” and the greatness of grand scales
March 4, 2024
What materials make up a life? What role do maturity, experiences, memories, and stimuli play in building a world in which one will spend the...
Leila’s brothers and a victimized generation
Leila’s brothers and a victimized generation
February 12, 2024
Saeed Roustayi's film, for better or worse, is a reflection of its time. More specifically, not only of its time but of an entire generation...
Jules et Jim: the psychological realism in the tragic narrative of Truffaut
Jules et Jim: the psychological realism in the tragic narrative of Truffaut
February 11, 2024
In the early 1960s, François Truffaut had already declared war on the traditionalism of French cinema, with the declaration that officially opened the doors of...
A historical and materialist Triangle of Sadness
A historical and materialist Triangle of Sadness
April 11, 2023
The Palme d’Or of 2022 was the magnifying glass that History needs, in order for someone to focus on a very small scale, on micro-societies,...
Aphrodite’s Child – 6 6 6: When Greeks Made Great Music.
Aphrodite’s Child – 6 6 6: When Greeks Made Great Music.
June 19, 2020
Greece produces more culture than it can consume. Perhaps that’s why it often prefers to consume more accessible products, those made by small people for...
The narration of Theo Angelopoulos’ “Borders”
The narration of Theo Angelopoulos’ “Borders”
April 22, 2020
I decided to share a conversation in a few pages, the kind of conversation I would have leaving a cinema, conversations that are missing, along...
Never too old for what it never dies
Never too old for what it never dies
January 17, 2020
Jethro Tull is one of the groups that shaped the unique and gone musical style of progressive rock. Prog had a uniqueness of variety in...
Time for Space
Time for Space
March 21, 2018
I was given a ship in the middle of the ocean I didn’t know where we’re coming from I often ask my companions I’m listening...

A legendary rugby match – 30 years later
A legendary rugby match – 30 years later
May 27, 2020
It has been 30 years since a day that belongs to the anthology of rugby, particularly remembered in France, but is also among the fundamental...
The vindication of history
The vindication of history
April 24, 2019
There are significant events that happen from time to time and provoke exaggeration in their commentary, called unparalleled, incomparable, and other similar adjectives. However, beyond...

Posts published in “History”

When capitalists try to “reclaim history” …it gets really funny!

When capitalists try to “reclaim history” …it gets really funny!

By Aegletes Coelispex on May 19, 2019

There are many reasons to claim that American History, or better said, the History of the USA, is one of the most interesting subjects to…

Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
September 6, 2020
In 1964, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of his writings about his life in Paris during the 1920s. At that time, the future famous author...
“The Grapes of Wrath” are still being written
“The Grapes of Wrath” are still being written
March 9, 2020
Usually, when I decide to write a book review on this blog, the project involves a book that I want to share with a wider...
Cosmos 2: Attempting the impossible
Cosmos 2: Attempting the impossible
March 9, 2020
40 years after the writing of one of the most beautiful books of all time, the legendary Cosmos by Carl Sagan, the endeavor to write...
The Penguin History of the World, by J.M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad
The Penguin History of the World, by J.M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad
October 9, 2018
I’m a passionate of history and more precisely of global history, the ensemble of the evolution of humanity on our planet, from its first steps...