From the Sea of Information / Cuban Impressions

Centro Habana 22.01.2014 - Sitting on the couch, H. scrolls through the hundreds of folders neatly organized on his computer desktop. It’s time for some music videos. He asks me whether I know the one he is about to show us. I shake my head. I must admit I’m not very updated about music. “But you surely know this one?” No, not even this one. How is it possible that I, used to having access to internet everyday, don’t know these things? On the other side I ask myself how it is possible that they are so updated since I spontaneously made the naïve connection between the lack of internet and the lack of information. The explanation is simple but not obvious: much of what people know about toda...View all