David Castillo

Este libro no pretende ser ni un libro de geopol tica ni de historia ni de pol tica, es un libro de seres humanos. Mujeres y hombres que van a contar su testimonio en primera persona con absoluta generosidad. Vas a encontrar en sus p ginas historias muy duras y muy probablemente m s de una te va a estremecer y a emocionar: Mi mujer hab a sido atada a nuestra cama y seguramente abusaron de ella hasta dispararle y acabar con su vida; Ya no mato por mi pa s, mato por vengar el alma de mis familiares; Me tocaban, se desnudaban y empezaron a abusar de m . Todos los relatos son escalofriantes y transmiten con todo detalle unas vivencias al l mite, un mosaico de intrahistorias que desnudan el horror de un conflicto b lico. Son historias que tocan el alma del lector y el colof n de la obra es un documento period stico de primer simo nivel: una entrevista con el mism simo Volod mir Zelenski. Mi nombre es David Castillo, a lo largo de mi vida, aunque no soy periodista, he hecho centenares de entrevistas en radio y televisi n. Las que vas a encontrar en este libro han sido las m s dif ciles de mi carrera, fruto de muchos meses de trabajo, constancia e investigaci n. En este libro os presento a la vida, la vida en tiempos de guerra.Un libro donde los testimonios se desnudan con absoluta generosidad y comparten su historia. Os van a dar lo poco que a algunos les queda, porque lo mucho es su vida.

As de Corazones es una emocionante novela que sigue la vida de Fran Ballester, una persona obsesionada por ser reconocido como un gran periodista de investigaci n, sin embargo, es alguien sin principios y sin escr pulos. Fran se intenta colocar en la cima de su carrera con la investigaci n de un asesino en serie, pero su vida da un giro inesperado cuando es acusado de ser el autor intelectual de una serie de asesinatos macabros por Adrien, su compa ero de batallas, con m s sentimientos hacia l que la simple admiraci n profesional. A medida que la historia se desarrolla, los personajes se ven inmersos en una red de conspiraciones y secretos oscuros que hacen que el asesino pueda mantener sus cr menes ocultos. Isabelle y Martin se enfrentan a una carrera contrarreloj para descubrir la verdad detr s de los asesinatos y descubrir qui n ha matado sin remordimiento a tanta gente. As de Corazones es una novela llena de intriga, suspense y giros inesperados donde la investigaci n de un asesino en serie se mezcla con el amor no correspondido y el crimen pasional, lo que mantendr al lector en vilo hasta la ltima p gina. Con una trama intensa y un estilo narrativo cautivador, esta historia revela los oscuros secretos que yacen bajo la superficie de la aparente normalidad de algunas personas y pone a prueba la lealtad, el ingenio y la valent a de aquellos dispuestos a luchar por la justicia y la verdad. Puedes ver el booktrailer aqu https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bltb37YelAE

The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel antidemocratic white nationalist movements in the United States and abroad, What Would Cervantes Do? is a lucid meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation.David Castillo and William Egginton travel back to the early modern period, the first age of inflationary media, in search of historically tested strategies to overcome disinformation and shed light on our post-truth market. Through a series of critical conversations between cultural icons of the twenty-first century and those of the Spanish Golden Age, What Would Cervantes Do? provides a tour-de-force commentary on current politics and popular culture. Offering a diverse range of Cervantist comparative readings of contemporary cultural texts –movies, television shows, and infotainment – alongside ideas and issues from literary and cultural texts of early modern Spain, Castillo and Egginton present a new way of unpacking the logic of contemporary media.What Would Cervantes Do? is an urgent and timely self-help manual for literary scholars and humanists of all stripes, and a powerful toolkit for reality literacy.

The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel antidemocratic white nationalist movements in the United States and abroad, What Would Cervantes Do? is a lucid meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation.David Castillo and William Egginton travel back to the early modern period, the first age of inflationary media, in search of historically tested strategies to overcome disinformation and shed light on our post-truth market. Through a series of critical conversations between cultural icons of the twenty-first century and those of the Spanish Golden Age, What Would Cervantes Do? provides a tour-de-force commentary on current politics and popular culture. Offering a diverse range of Cervantist comparative readings of contemporary cultural texts –movies, television shows, and infotainment – alongside ideas and issues from literary and cultural texts of early modern Spain, Castillo and Egginton present a new way of unpacking the logic of contemporary media.What Would Cervantes Do? is an urgent and timely self-help manual for literary scholars and humanists of all stripes, and a powerful toolkit for reality literacy.

Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's The Walking Dead, to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend (1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (2009), among others.

"David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, mutation, monstrosity, murder, and mayhem, and delivers them to us with an inimitable flair for the sensational that nonetheless rejects sensationalism because it remains so grounded in historical fact." ---William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University "Baroque Horrors is a major contribution to baroque ideology, as well as an exploration of the grotesque, the horrible, the fantastic. Castillo organizes his monograph around the motif of curiosity, refuting the belief that Spain is a country incapable of organized scientific inquiry."---David Foster, Arizona State UniversityBaroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and history, "reality" and "authenticity" may be experienced as spectator sports and staged attractions, as in the "real lives" captured by reality TV and the "authentic cadavers" displayed around the world in the Body Worlds exhibitions. Rather than thinking of virtual reality and staged authenticity as recent developments of the postmodern age, Castillo looks back to the Spanish baroque period in search for the roots of the commodification of nature and the horror vacui that accompanies it. Aimed at specialists, students, and readers of early modern literature and culture in the Spanish and Anglophone traditions as well as anyone interested in horror fantasy, Baroque Horrors offers new ways to rethink broad questions of intellectual and political history and relate them to the modern age. David Castillo is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.Jacket art: Frederick Ruysch's anatomical diorama. Engraving reproduction "drawn from life" by Cornelius Huyberts. Image from the Zymoglyphic Museum.