Ernesto Castro talk
Me and YouTube: How I became a video addict
The philosopher and YouTuber Ernesto Castro reviews some of the most iconic moments of the Spanish "internet" audiovisual from the early 2010s, placing special emphasis on videos of involuntary comedy and (post)deliberate humor. From Querido Antonio to Vicent Finch, from Venga Monjas to Go Ibiza Go, passing through the deadly food recipes of Mister Jägger or the moments of second-hand embarrassment at El Rincón de Giorgio.
This conference is a rollercoaster of pathetic and ridiculous moments, recorded in low resolution, that we now remember with deceptive and beautifying nostalgia. In this conference, Castro outlines the early steps of his video addiction to YouTube, which led him to open up without turning back the channel he has managed since 2015, with over 160,000 subscribers.
Ernesto Castro is a writer, thinker, and millennial sleepwalker. Professor of Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, he is currently finalising his Platonic Trilogy and developing his own philosophical system, generic naturalism. He participated in the 15M movement, toured Mexico giving lectures, and has published half a dozen non-fiction books. His doctoral thesis, the first in Spanish on the contemporary realist turn, has been translated into English by the German publisher Mohr Siebeck.
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