Centre of Cultures introductory brochure (253k). click here.

Proposal of the Centre of Cultures brochure (539k). click here.

Diversity forum - 5th November 2005 (153k). click here.

Let's not be surprised (232k). A short leaflet with the Centre of Cultures response to the increasing violence in today's society. click here.

Project Alien (760k). An explanatory leaflet about our publication, Alien. click here.

Concept of culture (83k).
Throughout the process of human history, diverse cultures have developed in different geographic points of the planet, and each within the framework of their own time. Although there have existed cultures and civilizations that have tried to annex others for their own development, in some cases imposing an imperial hegemony, the human being has never before been in such a situation of becoming culturally integrated at a planetary level....

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The present situation from the cultural point of view (82k).
A new power, wielded by an economicist culture, has spread across the entire planet. It is a culture founded upon the value of competition, which has lead to a concentration of economic, political and military power in the hands of a few: Authoritarian centralism, the cult of objects and the egocentric calculation of ultra pragmatism also characterize it. It preaches a “new truth” or new myth, founded on the premise that “access to happiness depends on money”....

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The impact of globalisation on cultures (85k).
The prevailing model of globalisation, in its attempt to make everything uniform, is creating a loss of cultural identity. This sensation is not due to the replacement of “cultural objects”, but rather to the loss of the connection with oneself, and the loss of the relationship with one’s own needs and with one’s internal world, from where the search for those same cultural objects came. It is this disconnection with the internal world that each individual expresses through one’s culture that brings us to a growing “externalization of culture”. For example, the stereotypes of “celebrities” elevated to the position of role models do not truly reflect people’s feelings. These false models end up leaving individuals bereft of true existential closeness with themselves and their communities....

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Increased contact between cultures (145k).
Globalisation affects ambits such as the social, cultural, environmental, etc. The media broadcasts news from all corners of the world in real time. Languages borrow words from each other and national administrative frontiers become blurred. A clear sample of this is the generalization of the patterns of consumption: jeans, soft drinks and fast food have become part of the global culture but are in fact none other than the exported habits of consumption of western culture....

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