Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 47 | 121 | 2024
Research Article | El don de la siesta by Miguel Ángel Hernández: Private Resistance in the Age of Transparency

El don de la siesta by Miguel Ángel Hernández: Private Resistance in the Age of Transparency

Agamben’s idea that the clandestine dimension of private life is the significant political element of individual life pairs with Miguel Ángel Hernández’s thesis expressed in El don de la siesta. According to him, in the era of transparency and hyper-visibility, siesta should be a subversive act. Hernández argues that siesta challenges the culture of productivity and constant exposure, offering a refuge for privacy and opening a pause in ordinary time. Through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing art, literature, and social criticism, the author advocates for a conscious type of siesta to reclaim time, body, and private space in an increasingly surveilled world. He sees this habit as an opportunity to redefine the relationship between public and private life, finding moments of evasion and disconnection amidst the frenetic contemporary life.


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Submitted: May 6, 2024 | Published: June 26, 2024 | Language: es

Keywords Clandestinidad Transparencia Clandestinity Resistencia Siesta Transparency Resistance Privacy Privacidad

Copyright © 2024 Alessandro Mistrorigo. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2024/22/030


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