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Alex Garcia Topete

The Spectator and the Muses

Category: Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: Normal People by Sally Rooney

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Alex Garcia Topete

Normal People by Sally Rooney My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rooney’s prose has an elegance and quasi-hypnotic quality that… Read more BOOK REVIEW: Normal People by Sally Rooney

BOOK REVIEW: The Character Edge

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 by Alex Garcia Topete

The Character Edge: Leading and Winning with Integrity by Robert L. Caslen Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Blending… Read more BOOK REVIEW: The Character Edge

BOOK REVIEW: Shtick to Business by Peter McGraw

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Alex Garcia Topete

Shtick to Business: What the Masters of Comedy Can Teach You about Breaking Rules, Being Fearless, and Building a Serious… Read more BOOK REVIEW: Shtick to Business by Peter McGraw

Book Review: Nikita Gill’s “Great Goddesses”

Posted on March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 by Alex Garcia Topete

A powerful re-imagining…

Creation in Chaos

Posted on October 8, 2019September 6, 2019 by Alex Garcia Topete

How to understand the semiotic determination of a work of art, particularly considering the interactive quality of art itself? While… Read more Creation in Chaos

Experiencing Quantum Aesthetics

Posted on October 1, 2019September 6, 2019 by Alex Garcia Topete

How to define the interaction between an observer and a work of art, not only in cases in which the… Read more Experiencing Quantum Aesthetics

Playing to Perception

Posted on September 24, 2019September 6, 2019 by Alex Garcia Topete

How to understand and measure the artistic dimension of manipulating an existing work of art, which belonged to meanings of… Read more Playing to Perception

The Flow of Artistic Expression

Posted on September 17, 2019September 6, 2019 by Alex Garcia Topete

How to explain and understand Tavares Strachan’s The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (2005-2006), a work… Read more The Flow of Artistic Expression

Mindful Machines

Posted on September 10, 2019September 6, 2019 by Alex Garcia Topete

How to understand the nature of artistic creation when the author does not belong to the human experience, but rather… Read more Mindful Machines

The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Alex Garcia Topete

How to understand the ethical value of a documentary such as Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (2012), which focuses more… Read more The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’

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