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José Vela Castillo – The Library of Babel (Excerpt)

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José Vela Castillo – Associate Professor – IE School of Architecture & Design. IE University. Reading: The Library of Babel (La biblioteca de Babel) (Excerpt) by Jorge Luis Borges (1941). The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery […]

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Luisa Eusebio Cartagena – Bread

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Luisa Eusebio Cartagena – Program Assistant – IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. GPA Management and Development. IE University. Reading: Bread (Pan) by Gabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957). Vice of habituation. Wonder of childhood, magical feeling of raw materials and elements: flour, salt, oil, water, fire. Moments of pure vision, pure hearing, pure […]

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Andrés Porras Chaves – This that you see, this brightly-hued pretense

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Andrés Porras Chaves – Adjunct Professor of Humanities. IE University. Reading: This that you see, this brightly-hued pretense (Este que ves, engaño colorido) by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695). A refutation of flatteries perceived as blind error; inscribed by the truth on a portrait of the poet. This that you see, this brightly-hued […]

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Facundo Vázquez – The righteous

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Facundo Vázquez – Associate Finance & Control Manager. IE University. Reading: The righteous (Los Justos) by Jorge Luis Borges (1981). A man who cultivates a garden as Voltaire wanted. The one that is grateful that there is music on earth The one that discovers the pleasure of an etymology Two coffee shop employees in […]

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Ted Lechterman – A Theory of Justice (Excerpt)

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Ted Lechterman – Assistant professor of philosophy. IE University. Reading: A Theory of Justice (Excerpt) by John Rawls (Harvard University Press, 1971). Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws […]

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Irene Blázquez Navarro – Only

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Irene Blázquez Navarro – Director of the Center for the Governance of Change. IE University. Reading: Only (Solamente) by Alejandra Pizarnik from book La última inocencia, 1956. now I understand the truth— it shatters in my desires, in my misfortunes, in my dissonance, in my unrest, in my delirium. now I understand the truth— […]

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Juan Alcalde – The Ten Books of Architecture (Excerpt)

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Juan Alcalde – Seminars and Advisor Program Coordinato. IE University. Reading: The Ten Books of Architecture / De Architectura (Excerpt) by Vitruvius (15 a. C). Book One. Chapter Three. The departments of architecture. There are three architecture departments: the art of building, Gnomonic, and the construction of machinery… Regarding the buildings,… All these must […]

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Maria Paula Nieto-Angel – Love of Farmland

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Maria Paula Nieto-Angel – Program Coordinator Corporate & Special Projects. IE University. Reading: Love of Farmland (Amor de Conuco) by Juan Luis Guerra (1986). Tell me if she would love me I am a man of few words, Consuelo I have nothing to offer A farmland, a rooster, and a bright star And the […]

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Jesús Sánchez – The Dawn of New York

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Jesús Sánchez – Program Assistant en el International MBA. IE Business School. Reading: The Dawn of New York (La aurora de Nueva York) by Federico García Lorca (1930). The dawn of New York has four pillars of slime and a hurricane of black doves that paddle in rotten waters. The dawn of New York […]

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Natalie Rose – The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It (Excerpt)

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Natalie Rose – MBA Programs Assistant – Talent & Careers – . IE University. Reading: The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It (Excerpt) by Mark Twain (1869). Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot […]

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