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COLLABORATIONS

After years of being interested in the genre of performative lectures I have seen that these representations usually move at a point between two axes: the boring master class and the demagogical TED talk. That is why I want to introduce a third destabilizing pole: the contemporary fakir.

Philosopher Michael Marder explains that since modernity fire has been divided into two forces: light and heat. He argues that the Enlightenment symbolically separated the cold light of reason - which only shines, but does not burn - and heat without light: the embodiment of evil, terrorism, that which is senseless, absurd or gratuitous. However, he says that fire is a unity that encompasses and transcends this intrinsic duality: an event where theory and practice converge. Despite the fact that Los Chunguitos insist on reminding us of the aphorism that says who plays with fire, gets burned with fire, this research will endeavour to demonstrate that whoever plays with fire not only burns but also shines.