Cultural Democracy

192
Booklet
Publication date: 
October 2024

The title of this Booklet joins two words, democracy and culture, that mutually support each other like exhausted travelers in the middle of their journey. The tiredness of the word democracy is due to the fact that it designates a tarnished reality, eroded at its foundations by economic globalization, the power of the great industries, techno-politics and populism. The word culture has arrived at the same state because it has lost critical and Utopian stamina in going from being a noble ideal and an antidote against power to being a vassal. In spite of that, the author defends the fact that beauty and art cannot be measured by their utility or their lack thereof and that there is an emotional movement when dealing with beauty that can be lived as the herald of a better world.

Culture & Society
Democracy & Political Participation
Modernism & Post-Modernism
Religion & culture

Author

Jorge

Picó Puchades

Graduate in English Philology from the University of Valencia. Graduate in Dramatic Art from the ESAD in Valencia. He studied at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He has taught at the ESAD in Valencia and at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He teaches on the postgraduate course in Theatre in Education at the University of Valencia. Artistic director of Ring de Teatro where he writes and directs his own plays which have been shown at the TNC, Théâtre Rond Point in Paris, Teatro de la Abadía in Madrid, Teatre Lliure, CNA in Mexico, the Festival Iberoamericano in Bogotá and the Sala Timbre 4 in Buenos Aires. He has worked as a volunteer giving theatre courses in prisons and disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

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