Poliglocia

"Anoche fuimos a las ramadas con el Mouse, nos tomamos unos fatshop... con un apestoso pollo a las brasas, otra costumbre inmemorial de la época de los incas, que como ustedes saben, eran auténticos chilenos." Tomas Bradanovic ¿Qué hay más primigenio, más básico que poner un pollo en un palo y darle vueltas sobre el fuego? No cabe duda que fue una de las primeras comidas de la humanidad, de que nace de forma espontánea en todos lados, como la punta de flecha, el mito del eterno retorno y la xenofobia. Nobody would think of nationalizing roasted chicken. Not even Texan cowboys. Only Peruvians could think of such an idea. The day before yesterday was Roasted chicken day. So today I'm going to the Mr. Chicken around the corner here in Bochum to have some Brathänchen. Mr.Chicken, by the way, may only exist in Germany, but its owners and most of its workers are Turkish. All of Germany gets more Turkish every day, but I don't think there's much of a difference ...

As said, I've been taking a seminar on Evil this semester and, a few minutes ago, I've finished watching Kuroshitsuji (the first series, at least). In this anime the play on christian religious symbols as are angels and demons, and the attempt to use them in a creative way, non the less seems to fit into a tendency which is already very common these days. From Evangelion to the movie of Constatine, comics like Hellboy or falling down to trash-TV like Supernatural. These days it just seems cooler to be on the devil's side rather than trying to be an angel. But what does it mean to be on the devil's side, and what's cool about it? In many cases, it would seem to be a simple reversal. A reversal which in the cases of Evangelion and Constantine, however, does still follow most of the premises of the original christian discourse and only points out rather twisted conclusions of it. In the case of Kuroshitsuji, I'd say the reversal is not symmetric because the logic i...