Akei

It is not known how many migrants live badly in the shantytowns of the so-called plastic sea of Almeria, but many of them have arrived by sea, in a patera. Sometimes they work in fruit and vegetable harvesting, illegally, as they do not exist. In 2019, the most voted party in the Andalusian elections in the municipalities of El Ejido and Níjar was the fascist party

AKEI imitates a large consumer catalog that is presented as a metaphor. Through paradox, it wants to confront us with ourselves, our needs, our values, our functionality and the functionality of the consumer society. The contradiction of AKEI is the contradiction of today's world.

We have republished AKEI. We know it is a disturbing book. We know that the pandemic world is not going well. We know that thinking and, above all, thinking of others as a whole is not the order of the day. This militaristic term brings us to the dimension of today's world. The hurtful hatred of the different, of the poor, of the dissident, the use by unbridled neoliberalism - which politicians and world governments have become - of hatred of the victims covers the guilt and the material and moral misery very well.