Ciudad de lobos y fugitivos: una lectura semiótica de Bogotá

Abstract

The book brings together the particularities of a semiotic reading of the city of Bogotá. To achieve this goal, we transit and link both its material, subjective and sociocultural components, as well as its historical determinations. Our view was supported by the positions of Fabio Zambrano, Armando Silva, José Luis Romero and Ángel Rama, among other authors. The results of the effort show that the midwife of Bogotá has two faces: agrarian violence and epistemic violence, effectively woven by a 'literate city' that still zealously guards social tensions that generate segregation and exclusion. Based on the above, we affirm that Bogotá is inhabited by cosmopolitan citizens or good people, who oppose the wolves or braggarts, Andean heirs of the corrunchos. However, facing the same mirror of tradition, we all act like fugitives; that is, wanting to escape from ourselves and our niches; but, without ceasing to be who we are. Thus, in each flight, the Colombian capital changes its social identity, but not without leaving traces of its paradoxical future.