Qualifications and academic training

Graduated in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Activity and/or other professional career

He was a scriptwriter for Televisión Española in the 1980s, especially for the mythical program La Bola de Cristal. For fifteen years he was a professor of language and literature at the Cervantes Institutes in Lisbon and Tunis. He has given dozens of talks, classes, and conferences at universities, cultural centers, and public and private institutions. Every year he gives a master's degree in Artistic Education at ESADCYL in Valladolid. He has a fixed section (Derroteros), of philosophical conversation, in Javier Gallego's Carne Cruda podcast

Research

His work has focused mainly on the anthropological dimension of capitalism based on the works of Benjamin, Polanyi, Mumford and Gunther Anders, with special attention to the concept of "corporality" and the relations of the body with the world in a market society. . He has used mythology and literature a lot in his researches.

Publications

• España. Lengua de Trapo (2021)
• Ser o no ser (un cuerpo). Seix Barral (2017)
• Leer con niños. Random House (2007, reissued in 2015)
• Capitalismo y Nihilismo: Dialéctica del hambre y la mirada. Akal Editions (2007)
• La ciudad intangible: ensayo sobre el fin del neolítico. Hiru Argitaletxea (2000)
• Las reglas del caos, finalist for the Anagrama award (1995)

He has published more than 25 books and regularly collaborates in different media such as Público, CTXT, Ara, eldiario.es or El País, among others.