politics

Animalization as a Political Strategy. The Case of Costa Rica President Rodrigo Chaves Robles

Paula Sequeira Rovira, Universidad Nacional Costa Rica

On ‘Global Agora’ and the ‘Possible Subjects’. From Technological Uthopia to a Critical Approach

Elkin Rubiano, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Externado de Colombia y Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

“Aquí fue Troya” – Women, Theater and Cultural Agencies

Diana M. Gómez Correal marcelantropologia@hotmail.com Universidad Nacional de Colombia Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between the agency, culture, politics, and the possibility of transforming reality through the use of a theatrical piece created collectively by a group of young feminist women and the participation of some of the audience members. Starting from an ethnographic […]

Thinking about the Present and Dreaming about the Past: The Politics and History in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

Alex Betancourt Serrano abs@uprrp.edu Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Abstract: This article explores Walter Benjamin’s political and historical proposals that emerge from his Arcades Project. The essay outlines Benjamin’s criticism of historicism and presents his proposal of historical interpretation as a dream taking into account the dialectic relationship between the past and the political […]

Transdisciplinarity: method and politics. A first-person journey from philosophy

Carlos Arturo Lopez carturolopez@gmail.com Pontifcia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: This paper shows, from a philosophical approach, the effort to traverse disciplines critically, leaving aside the pressure imposed by the idea of the “advance of learnings”. Instead of rejecting the disciplinary practice, here is a proposal for an attitude taking advantage of such a practice —first […]