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¿Revolucion(es) moral(es)? De la necesidad de pensar otros “mundos posibles”.Una mirada reflexiva al transhumanismo
En esta obra se describen analítica, reflexiva, comprensiva y críticamente los principales planteamientos de la corriente transhumanista, el mejoramiento humano y la humanidad mejorada (Humanity+), a la luz de las implicaciones éticas, filosóficas, educativas, tecnológicas, religiosas, sociales y culturales de dichos desarrollos. A través del método fenomenológico, los autores buscan establecer conexiones de sentido entre el enfoque transhumanista y la(s) revolucion(es) moral(es) que trae aparejadas, la expansión de la técnica, la tecnología, los desarrollos biotecnológicos, la biogenética y los avances en neurociencia que son pilares en el desarrollo científico actual.
Tecnología, agencia y transhumanismo.
La filosofía de la tecnología es uno de los campos teóricos de mayor relevancia actualmente, en correspondencia con la creciente influencia de las tecnologías en la vida de la humanidad. Este texto hace aportes específicos en este campo, en dos temas fundamentales: el problema de la agencia material de las tecnologías y el problema de la constitución tecnológica de la vida humana, debatido por el transhumanismo y el poshumanismo.
Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces
This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces. A primary notion is that phases are the appropriate domains to explain most interface linguistic phenomena and that the study of (narrow) interfaces helps to understand conditions on the internal structure of the Language Faculty. The first part of this volume is dedicated to introducing the notion of boundary, cycle and phase, and also the current debates regarding internal interfaces, in particular, the syntax-phonology, syntax-semantics, syntax-discourse, syntax-morphology and syntax-lexicon interfaces, in order to show how the notion of boundary/phase is related to (or even determines) most of their characteristics. The four sections of the second part deal with (morpho)phonology/ syntax and the role or boundaries/phases; the syntax-discourse and syntax-semantics interface; and the lexicon-syntax interface, while the notion of boundary/phase cross-cuts the main topics addressed.
Latin America Writes Back
Latin America has been an important basis for theorizing the postmodern condition and has been the site of some of the most significant contributions to postmodern literature. However, discourses about postmodernity have overwhelmingly been constructed by European and American intellectuals. This book is a groundbreaking collection of essays by Latin American scholars on the theories and practices of postmodernity. It provides an important forum for Latin American intellectuals to shape the debates on postmodernity that are based, to a large degree, on their own cultural and political experiences. Gathering together new and classic essays across a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, this much-needed collection allows some of Latin America's leading cultural critics to write back to their Euro-American counterparts and join the international debate.
Barrio Rising
"In the mid-1950s, in an effort to modernize Venezuela, the military government razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). Over the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, and official neglect, inhabitants of the barrio learned to use their strategic location and symbolic tie to the promise of democracy in order to demand a better life. Granting legitimacy to the state through the vote but protesting its failings with violent street actions when necessary, they laid the foundation for an expansive understanding of democracy--both radical and electoral--whose features still resonate today"--Provided by publisher.
Más acá, o más allá: del cambio, lo nuevo y la alternatividad en la teoría de los saberes sociales
Este libro gira en torno a tres problemas esenciales, no solo para los directamente interesados en la teoría, sino también, y sin lugar a dudas, para todas las ciencias sociales y los más recientes proyectos cognitivo-políticos que encarnan los estudios culturales, los estudios poscoloniales y el giro descolonial, además de la propuesta de Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Entre sus capítulos están en juego el cambio teórico y sus límites, que comprende otras cuestiones como la innovación y la necesidad de la renovación teórica; el problema de la diferenciación teórica, es decir, el de la aparición de otras teorías distintas a las existentes en un momento dado, y el revivido tema d...
Radical Form
A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America. Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the mid-1960s, this important new volume focuses on the artistic practices of Joaquín Torres-García, Tomás Maldonado, Alejandro Otero, and Lygia Clark. Megan A. Sullivan positions the adoption of modernist abstraction by South American artists as part of a larger critique of the economic and social transformations caused by Latin America’s state-led programs of rapid industrialization. Sullivan thoughtfully explores the diverse ways this skepticism of modernization and social and political change was expressed. Ultimately, the book makes it clear that abstraction in South America was understood not as an artistic style to be followed but as a means to imagine a universalist mode of art, a catalyst for individual and collective agency, and a way to express a vision of a better future for South American society.
Venezuela and the United States
"Valuable work explores the evolution of US-Venezuelan relations in terms of 'core cultural values' and disparities of power. Argues that the relationship between Venezuela and the US should take into account the vision and values of Venezuela, and that US relations with Venezuela represent a microcosm of all outstanding issues between Latin America and its northern neighbor"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Unconventional Warfare and the Venezuelan Society
The study exemplifies the use of knowledge derived from scholarly studies in the social sciences to lay the foundation for defenses against modern unconventional warfare. Unconventional warfare is defined as a system of conflict the strategy of which is to secure control of the state by first gaining control of its civilian population. The study is a follow-up to a pioneer attempt in the use of social science techniques, which treated the situation in South Vietnam. To determine how useful the procedures developed there would be when applied to a different situation, a brief investigation was conducted from June to August 1963 of unconventional warfare in Venezuela using the same procedural ...
The Hispanic American Historical Review
Includes "Bibliographical section".
