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This text was written in response to the death of the prominent Colombian literary critic Carlos Rincón (1937-2018). It analyzes his last two authored-books published in Colombia, Íconos y mitos culturales en la invención de la nación en Colombia (2014) and Avatares de la memoria cultural en Colombia. Formas simbólicas del Estado, museos y canon literario (2015). The analysis is done not on the specific content of both books, but on their sketch, their plan: the text does not review what Rincón said. Instead, it studies how he said what he said. It is suggested that this how allows us to glimpse fragments of the history of a global Colombia from the angle of political aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]