El cuerpo post-humano

El cuerpo post-humano
Author: Iván Mejía
Publisher: UNAM
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789703232390

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El término "post-humano" alude a un ser que ha sido modificado en su corporeidad (un hueso sintético, cirugía plástica o de cambio de sexo, prótesis, cirugías de rejuvenecimiento, etc.). Incluye también la mezcla de lo orgánico con lo inorgánico (un cyborg) y las formas en que los avances biotecnológicos (diseño genético y clonación) alterarán la anatomía del hombre. Revisando el trabajo de diversos artistas y personajes marginados, como los transexuales, el autor encuentra que el término "post-humano" valora los conceptos de raza, género e identidad.

Reactive scattering for H- + H2 and H+ + H2 and its isotopologues

Reactive scattering for H- + H2 and H+ + H2 and its isotopologues
Author: Dequan Wang
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3832542957

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The reactive scattering for H- + H2 and H+ + H2 and its isotopologues were investigated using different methods. The studies aimed at providing insights into elementary reactions, and go beyond these to more complexchemical reactions. By comparison of the reaction probabilities of H+ + H2 using adiabatic and non-adiabatic methods, it was found that, at low collision energies, the reaction preferentially occurs adiabatically, but at higher collision energies non-adiabatic effects should be taken into account. For H- + H2 and its isotopologues, we can see that, at low collision energies, the reaction probabilities and reaction cross section using SM-PES and AY-PES are very similar but different from PS-PES. The reaction cross sections investigated with quasi-classical trajectoriesare higher than those calculated with quantum wavepackets. For the collision H- and D- with HD, the main reaction path ways are different with the different collision energies.

Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction

Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction
Author: Antonio Córdoba
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2022-11-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031117913

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This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of agency, and engages in environmentalist theory in ways that are estranging and open to new forms of species companionship. Essays cover literature, film, TV shows, and music, grouped in three sections: “Posthumanist Subjects” examines Latin(x) American iterations of some of the most common figurations of the posthuman, such as the cyborg and virtual environments and selves; “Slow Violence and Environmental Threats” understands that posthumanist meditations in the hemisphere take place in a material and cultural context shaped by the catastrophic destruction of the environment; the chapters in “Posthumanist Others” shows how the reimagination of the self and the world that posthumanism offers may be an opportunity to break the hold that oppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed.

Post-Global Aesthetics

Post-Global Aesthetics
Author: Gesine Müller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110762145

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Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.

Contemporary Spanish Gothic

Contemporary Spanish Gothic
Author: Ann Davies
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474417922

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Examines Spain's contribution to international interest in Gothic culture, film and literatureWith the success of novels such as The Shadow of the Wind and films like The Others, contemporary Spanish culture has contributed a great deal to the imagery and experience of the Gothic, although such contributions are not always recognised as being specifically Spanish in origin. Contemporary Spanish Gothic is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely. Examining the works of writers and filmmakers like Carlos Ruiz ZafAn, Arturo PA(c)rez-Reverte, Pedro AlmodAvar and Alejandro AmenA!bar, as well as the further reaches of Spanish Gothic influence in the Twilight film series, the book considers images and themes like the mad surgeon and the vulnerable body, the role of the haunted house, and the heritage biopics of Francisco de Goya.

Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature

Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature
Author: Stephen C. Tobin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2023-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031311566

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Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce – all published during and influenced by the country’s neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and smartphones and the literary narratives that treat them all correspond to separate-yet-overlapping scopic regimes within the country today. Amidst the shifts occurring in the country’s field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devices contribute to producing specular subjects—or subjects who are constituted in large measure by their use and interaction with visual technologies. In doing so, they repeatedly recur to the posthuman figure of the cyborg in order to articulate these changes; Stephen C. Tobin therefore contends that the literary cyborg becomes a discursive site for working through the problematics of sight in Mexico during the globalized era. In all, these “specular fictions” represent an exceptional tendency within literary expression—especially within the cyberpunk genre—that grapples with themes and issues regarding the nature of vision being increasingly mediated by technology.

Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar

Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Author: Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2017-05-24
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 1474427723

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A new critical and theoretical approach to a neglected aspect of Pedro AlmodAvars cinemaOne of Spains most celebrated directors, Pedro AlmodAvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Reconceptualising AlmodAvars films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement. With close readings of AlmodAvars films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, JuliA!n Daniel GutiA(c)rrez-Albilla explores how AlmodAvars cinema mourns and witnesses the traces of trauma, drawing on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies to suggest that his work proposes an ethical model based on our compassionate relations to others, and envisions a world co-inhabited by plurality and difference.Key featuresExplores how Pedro AlmodAvar engages with the traumatic pastIncludes close readings of AlmodAvars films from the 1990s and 2000sDraws on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies

New First Spanish Book

New First Spanish Book
Author: Lawrence Augustus Wilkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1925
Genre: Spanish language
ISBN:

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Post DomestiCity

Post DomestiCity
Author: Diego Garcia-Setien
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2022-07-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1638400326

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PostDomestiCity is an inquiry and speculative exercise into the conditions of obsolescence in the post-industrial city, from a contemporary perspective. Working with three paradigmatic cases that were conceived from industrial logics—the Packard plant in Detroit, Lima’s PREVI neighbourhood, and theGrand’Mare complex in Rouen—, we explore alternative ways of reusing, reprogramming, and redensifying the built environment as alternatives to demolition. Relevant voices in the field of architecture share their approaches and visions of the future for the pre-existing city, helping us imagine post-domesticity in the current climate crisis and socio-technological context. With Contributions of Anne Lacaton, Marina Otero, Ippolito Pestellini, Duplex Architects, Lacol, Antonio Vázquez de Castro, Carmen Espegel, Luis Takahashi, Lys Villalba, O.F. architects, DABG, Patricia Lucas, Ramón Araujo, Paulo Dam, Renato Manrique, CoLaboratorio (Diego García-Setién, Enrique Espinosa, Begoña de Abajo, Almudena Ribot).

The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Author: Ana María Sánchez-Arce
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526151014

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This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain’s most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.