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Miguel Angel, thank you so much for being with us today! You are a slightly different guest than who we generally have in interviews, because it’s not a particular philosophical topic that you are an expert on. Rather, it is what you do, and in this, we are colleagues. You are the founder and editor of Filosofia en la Red, a Mexico-based, Spanish-language philosophy site and magazine. Tell us a few words about Filosofia en la Red: how long has the site existed, and what kind of content do you mainly publish?
Andreas, first of all, thank you very much for the invitation, it’s a great honor to have this space to share with you a little, or a lot, about Filosofía en la Red. First of all, I don’t know if I should say that Filosofía en la Red is a site “from Mexico”, since, although it’s true that I spend most of my time here, being conceived as a space on the net, I see it more as “headquarter-less”, a space without a space, a meeting point that finds its magic in virtuality.
Answering your question directly, I can divide Filosofía en la Red into two stages: 2014 and 2020. In the first block, the site was born with the idea of a “collective philosophy blog where a group of authors shared their reflections”, whether they were original or even re-sharing texts previously published in other spaces. During that period, the site was not particularly cherished, and everyone published as they wanted and when they wanted, without control and above all, without my commitment to the project.
In 2020 things changed. There was a noise in my mind that made me feel “guilt and responsibility”; I was “responsible for …” without really assuming total responsibility, for different situations. There was then a great moment of introspection and reflection, and that led me to rethink things, train myself in remote work management and leadership, and after much reflection, conclude that I wanted to keep the project alive but “my way”, with my stamp and renouncing my personal brand and my blog, individual projects, to bet on Filosofía en la Red. And look, three years later, although perhaps it was something radical (to say “goodbye” to my individuality) I do not regret it, without that commitment and dedication, Filosofía en la Red would not be where it is now.
Addressing the final part of the question, Filosofía en la Red focuses on three things: divulge, share and generate philosophy. To this …
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