Writer and essayist

He is a writer and essayist who studied Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. In the 1980s, he was a scriptwriter for the iconic television programme La bola de cristal and has since published over twenty books on politics, philosophy and literature, along with three children’s stories, a play and a poetry collection. 

He has written for and continues to contribute to various media outlets (Público, CTXT, Ara, elDiario.es, El País, among others). His latest books include Catorce palabras para después del capitalismo [Fourteen Words for After Capitalism] (CTXT, 2023), De la moral terrestre entre las nubes [On Earthly Morality Among the Clouds] (Pepitas de Calabaza, 2023) and España [Spain] (Lengua de Trapo, 2021).

Portrait: © Alfredo Cáliz

Last Update: September 13, 2024

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Open city. The challenges of the futureThe end of the (common) world

The Flat Earth theory and other denialist utopias are the radical expression of increasingly widespread indignation at the mental and material decay of the common world. They do not want...

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