Revista Estética e Semiótica- RES, Aesthetics and Semiotics Magazine

The university has avoided thinking more deeply. It doesn't realize how identity-based proposals have served to hide issues and divert attention. The quality of a work of art or theory does not derive from the gender, religion, skin color, or sexual orientation of its author, but it can already be assumed that, when this is invoked, there is already a symptom that the work is not as good as intended. It prevents thinking and debating something like the difference between the principle of equality and the equalization of difference.

When you look carefully at a lit candle, you notice that its luminous center is dark, as if the light sprouted from the darkness. When you look at an eye, you see that the pupil is black, as if the darkness provided vision. In both cases, it is the darkness that provides the light and its perception. It is the founding condition of its opposite. It is, therefore, something complementary.
To maintain the privileges of the wealthy 1% of the population, a semiotic and hermeneutical war is waged, attempting to manipulate the majority into accepting exploitation. Public space becomes the arena for a war of symbols and versions, all the more effective the more unconscious they are. The artwork becomes the space of a hermeneutical battle, where illuminations are produced to conceal the more fundamental dimensions of objects. The more relevant they are, the more darkness is pretended to be light, so that the lights do not appear.

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