Spanish Abstract: En su teoría sobre la interacción estratégica, Erving Goffman muestra cómo las dinámicas de control de la información y de la infiltración de informantes en las líneas enemigas no son únicamente una cuestión de espionaje internacional o de servicios secretos. La vida cotidiana, tal como nos la desvela el análisis de Goffman, e…[Read more]

Seit fast vier Monaten herrscht Krieg in der Ukraine. Ein Blick in die Geschichte zeigt, warum Putin glaubt, dem Land die Eigenstaatlichkeit absprechen zu können – und weshalb sein Vorhaben nur scheitern kann.

Chapter on Emanuele Coccia’s meditations on plants, from the perspective of feminist extinction inspired by Claire Colebrook.

Reflections on Post-Globalscape, an exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera for Intermingling Flux: 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, Editor in Chief Wang Shaoqiang.

Notes on the second half of Nicholas Ray’s ‘Tragedy and Otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis’—a reading of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar ‘, with some interesting dimensions for the student of retroprospective action. The relationship to the Freudian project is rather indirect, but the chapter stands on its own strength as an o…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Resumen comentado del artículo de Norman N. Holland “Unity Identity Text Self”, un clásico de la teoría de la recepción literaria desde el punto de vista psicoanalítico. He reescrito el título original en mi propio título de una manera que clarifique más las relaciones que busca establecer Holland entre estos cuatro término…[Read more]

Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative – traduzione dall’inglese.

Una critica ai miti dell’automazione da una prospettiva femminista

Sul perchè la cura ha sempre più a che fare con la disobbedienza della proprietà privata

Why to care means to disobey private property

Why to care means to disobey private property

Spanish abstract: Una reflexión evolucionista y cognitivista sobre el papel de la imaginación y de la autorrepresentación en la identidad humana, en la creación de verdades, y en la gestión de las crisis—en el seno de una realidad humana, realidad interaccional y comunicativa, que siempre ha tenido mucho de realidad virtual (avant la lettre y avan…[Read more]

Mauritian Muslims have undergone a long process of religious standardization and sectarian segmentation. How have sharp religious boundaries such as those that separate Muslims from Hindus and Christians, as well as those that divide Muslims internally along sectarian lines emerged in a creole society such as Mauritius? This article traces how…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Para nosotros, humanos, la realidad se confunde con la realidad humana– y no podría ser de otra manera. Hay muchas dimensiones posibles para definir, estudiar o medir la realidad, pero todas sin excepción son relativas a nuestros intereses—algunos muy básicos y ligados a la experiencia humana general, otros especializados y sólo…[Read more]

In Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles in staging claims to the city. Investigating the sonic aspects of urban pla…[Read more]

This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Nos comportamos en sociedad de maneras que potencien nuestra autoestima, eligiendo las estrategias adecuadas para ello. Algo en esta línea había argumentado Mark Twain en su sarcástico ensayo ‘What Is Man?’ —pero ahora los sarcasmos de Twain parece que tienen respaldo científico en la psicología evolucionista. Así comenta…[Read more]

One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

English abstract: Psychological processes internal to the individual, as well as those of a symbolic, discursive or cognitive nature, are built on the basis of social interaction, and—given that social interaction exists prior to individuals, exceeds them in complexity, and forms them—the development of consciousness, and of communicative and sym…[Read more]