Around the dream 4. Madrid

Madrid… fourth cycle. First stage in Europe. New York, Cuba, China and now Madrid, they all have one common denominator: the impossibility of thinking about the city, because the city is only one point in a process of generalised urban development. Now added to these scenes, which are known to everyone, is the European dream that Marcos deals with as a proposed setting in Southern Europe: the city of Madrid. As has been reiterated in the previous chapters, the human being is faded out so it is possible for him to become engrossed in other universes. Madrid is not alien to the mercantile, political and social movements of the current century in which everything is absorbed into the common denominator of globalisation24. The city, whether we like it or not, is cemented into a perfect union between financial capital and territory. José María Díaz-Maroto. Alrededor del sueño 4. Madrid (Extract)