Prometeo has never regarded disciplines as separate rooms. History, science, philosophy, politics, art, and literature acquire their fullest meaning when they are allowed to communicate—when a question arising in one field unexpectedly finds an answer, or perhaps a more fruitful uncertainty, in another. This issue, number 175, offers a particularly rich example of that editorial […]
Sometimes curious things happen in newspapers. Strange coincidences that escape the notice of the editorial staff until the contributions arrive. Then it turns out that three different contributors, without advance coordination, have all mentioned the same person. In this issue of Prometeo 174, that distinction belongs to Herman Melville, a writer who enjoyed little success […]
Prometeo is a long-standing masthead. In some ways and not without some pride it has an ancient breath. Forty-four years have passed since we first hit the newsstands in the spring of 1983, a span of time that has passed like a panzer division, radically changing the daily lives of individuals and the geographies of […]
We have reached Issue 172! As you leaf through it, you will see just how rich in content it truly is. Perhaps I shouldn’t say so, but I will anyway: I feel a certain satisfaction. The credit, of course, goes to the authors who write for Prometheus, but also to that inexplicable quid that sometimes […]