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Why everyone should read The Dispossessed

Dystopias are the flavour of the week, month, and year. It seems more politically attuned to paint the various landscapes of doom that the…

Jun 21, 2018

Why everyone should read The Dispossessed

Jun 21, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

Apuntes sobre Game of Thrones S8E1

He estado pensando en qué podría escribir sobre este esperado capítulo estreno de la última temporada de la gran saga que fue Game of…

Apr 15, 2019

Apuntes sobre Game of Thrones S8E1

Apr 15, 2019

Valentina Salvatierra

Routine encounters

Wakes up, gets out of bed, into the shower, and dressed. The usual work-day routine, a quick breakfast and guzzling down a cup of tea while…

Jul 28, 2018

Routine encounters

Jul 28, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

Matter of Will

As she looked at herself in the mirror that morning before leaving for the library, the girl noticed that the woven sweater she was wearing…

Jun 30, 2018

Matter of Will

Jun 30, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

Adapting time and agency: Arrival and ‘Story of Your Life’

Arrival was my favourite movie of 2016: a moving, intelligent tour-de-force whose brilliant twists and clever use of science put…

Apr 28, 2018

Adapting time and agency: Arrival and ‘Story of Your Life’

Apr 28, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

La experiencia de traducir ‘El Concepto de Experiencia’

Escribí esta nota para acompañar el ensayo ‘El Concepto de Experiencia’ (escrito por Mark Greif), que traduje desde el inglés.

Apr 7, 2018

La experiencia de traducir ‘El Concepto de Experiencia’

Apr 7, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

El Concepto de Experiencia — Mark Greif

(El significado de la vida, Parte I)

Mar 31, 2018

El Concepto de Experiencia — Mark Greif

Mar 31, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

Commentary on Slaughterhouse-Five

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so…

Feb 28, 2018

Commentary on Slaughterhouse-Five

Feb 28, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

Ambivalent victories

2 poems with illustrations

Feb 24, 2018

Ambivalent victories

Feb 24, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

Social-science fiction: J.G. Ballard’s 1960s short fiction

It seems exaggerated to say, as author J.G. Ballard has done, that science fiction is the only important fiction written in the twentieth…

Jan 27, 2018

Social-science fiction: J.G. Ballard’s 1960s short fiction

Jan 27, 2018

Valentina Salvatierra

Valentina Salvatierra

Literature, art, TV, interesting miscellanea. I enjoy cooking, eating, and speculative fiction. Credo: Non-paralysing perfectionism & humanist aestheticism.

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