A shot in the air

Alegrías are a flamenco form with the light of Cadiz. Camarón sang one that affirms with the forcefulness of a theorem: “Trust in man / you should never have”.
The lyrics of these alegrías are half surreal and have resonances as if from haiku: “With the light of the cigarette, / I saw the mill. / My cigar went out. I lost my way”.
Almost as surreal as that couplet is what we propose in this section: using mathematics as a knife, we will split reality open, be it social, political, cultural, scientific or other… and we will look to see what is inside.
“I shot in the air, sang Camarón, it fell into the sand. / There is no trust in man.”

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