Fernando A. de Sotomayor

Con el descubrimiento de los escritos de Ferdinand de Saussure en 1996, su pensamiento -hasta entonces conocido a través del Curso de lingüística general editado por sus discípulos- adquiere una nueva luz. En esta prospectiva del pensamiento saussureano, Rastier identifica detalladamente los defectos de apreciación del CLG, con lo que logra enfrentar las críticas de las que ha sido objeto el lingüista suizo. En 2016 se cumple el centenario de la publicación del Curso, y ahora que el mundo académico celebra la obra que catapultó a Saussure como padre de la lingüística, es el...

This publication, edited by Renata Cervetto (MALBA) and Miguel Á. López (TEOR/éTica), comprises twenty-one critical contributions from various artists, educators, curators, historians and activists, who reflect on their experiences and artistic, educational and curatorial projects in the last two decades in Latin America. "From a critical look at the strategies of mediation to self-organized and collaborative learning practices, the texts gathered here explore the social function of education and its possibilities of redefining the reach of public art as well as activate renewed forms of...

Las técnicas de argumentación y debate significan una verdadera revolución a la hora de exponer nuestras ideas y de refutar las ideas del adversario de manera ágil y sorprendente. Se trata, en su mayoría, de recursos del tipo "completa los espacios en blanco": los aprendes, les incorporas unas pocas palabras acordes al tema que se esté tratando y listo, siéntate a disfrutar del subibaja de mandíbulas que, súbitamente, parecen haber quedado mudas".

Against All Odds reproposes Keith Haring as a political artist who incorporated issues around consumerism, drug addiction and AIDS into his concerns, and casts his art as a joyous expression of Nietzsche's "will to power," surmounting cultural malaise with graphic boldness. Haring's relationship with Don and Mera Rubell began early on in his career, when the Rubells visited the Mudd Club (one of New York's earliest discos) in 1981, to see an exhibition of graffiti art which Haring had co-curated. This volume contains the entirety of their collection, much of which is reproduced for the first...