The Keen edge

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Desigual walks through the Gothic Quarter

Bernat Dedéu
It is well known that irony is one of the great achievements of Western culture, the quintessential Socratic invention to be championed... until someone uses it to mock what you hold dear. That is how I might have felt after Desigual’s latest ad, a seemingly light-hearted film in which a...
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"Aura" battles

Bernat Dedéu
Any part-time philosopher or panty-dropping "coolture" critic will, at some point, have livened up a conversation with carnal intentions, or an existential debate among friends, by invoking the concept of aura. Wikipedia-level thinking — a trap not even Walter Benjamin, nor your humble narrator, entirely escapes — tells us that...
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Bernat Dedéu
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Bernat Dedéu
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