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Elegía para una insomne
La autora nació en USA.
Collecting from the Margins
From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex political, social, economic, anthropological, and psychological implications. However, studies of collecting as practiced in colonized cultures are few, since the role of these cultures has usually been understood as that of purveyors of objects for the metropolitan collector. Collecting from the M...
Ambivalent Desires
Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book discusses the intersection between modernity and the private sphere. It analyzes canonical and non-canonical works that reflect the existing ambivalence toward the modernizing project being implemented in the country at the time, and it discusses how the texts in question reinterpret, adapt, and even reject the ideology of modernity. The focus of the study is how the understanding of the relationsh...
Experiencia, memoria y escritura en Infancia en Berlín hacia 1900 de Walter Benjamin
Durante su exilio en París, Walter Benjamin escribió los fragmentos que hoy se conocen como Infancia en Berlín hacia 1900, que se publicaron póstumamente y han tenido una larga tradición de leerse en clave autobiográfica. El presente libro propone una lectura distinta de Infancia en Berlín en la que se destaca su experimentación formal y sus vínculos con las vanguardias. Este estudio de María Mercedes Andrade incluye una discusión de la interesante historia editorial del libro y apartes de las ediciones alemanas hasta ahora poco difundidos en español. En su investigación interpreta el célebre Infancia en Berlín de Benjamin como un nuevo modelo de "experiencia" que, en medio de la velocidad de la cultura moderna, busca trascender su fragmentación.
Diplomatic List
Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.
Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence
A reappraisal of deconstruction from one of its leading commentators, focusing on the themes of force and violence. In this book, Rodolphe Gasché returns to some of the founding texts of deconstruction to propose a new and broader way of understanding itnot as an operation or method to reach an elusive outside, or beyond, of metaphysics, but as something that takes place within it. Rather than unraveling metaphysics, deconstruction loosens its binary and hierarchical conceptual structure. To make this case, Gasché focuses on the concepts of force and violence in the work of Jacques Derrida, looking to his essays Force and Signification and Force of Law, and his reading on Of Gram...
Collecting Mexico
Considers how public collections on display form powerful ideas of nationalism
Nature's Tapestry: Uncovering the Beauty and Importance of Biodiversity
We cannot separate human beings from biodiversity. Our vital functions and our health are synergistic with other species. The number of microorganisms we live with is greater than the total number of cells in our bodies. So, separation from biodiversity and its loss are the greatest threats to human survival, and the current model for human development affects our very lives. We must integrate marine and terrestrial life to understand our interdependence with biodiversity. Colombia, a megadiverse country with access to two oceans, is the perfect canvas on which to illustrate this message: nature has sustainable and straightforward solutions to society's emerging problems. The new challenges ...
Diplomatic List
Contains the names & titles of the members of the diplomatic staffs of all foreign missions & their spouses. Includes addresses, telephone & fax numbers.
Historia privada de los colombianos
«Eduardo Caballero Calderón es un referente indispensable en la literatura colombiana del siglo xx, tanto por su destreza estilística como por su interés por reflexionar sobre larealidad nacional de su época a partir de los géneros literarios que cultivó, entre los cuales se cuentan el ensayo, la novela, el relato, la columna periodística y las memorias. [...] Historia privada de los colombianos es un libro de ensayo, compuesto por dieciocho capítulos relativamente cortos en los cuales Caballero Calderón analiza y discute la historia y la cultura colombianas. Aunque su título hace que el lector espere un texto enfocado en la vida privada, en realidad su énfasis está en eventos h...
