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La Biblioteca Pública de la provincia de Buenos Aires en los orígenes de la ciudad soñada (1884-1898). Entre lo ideal y lo real
Get PDFBetween the first illusions and the material realisation, the article seeks to restore the place occupied by the Biblioteca Pública de la Provincia de Buenos Aires in the foundational program of La Plata. First, there is an account of the ideas and intentions that led to the creation of a public library project that, although inherited the model born in 1810, represented a conceptual renewal without precedent in Argentine history. Secondly, the interventions and conditions of possibility that, between 1884 and 1898, determined the actual design of the library are recovered and contextualised. Finally, it is concluded that during the period under study, the public library was laying the genetic foundations for a project that it could not fully develop
Editorial: Artificial Intelligence encounters of the generative kind: Rethinking knowledge, ethics, and research
Get PDFThis editorial introduces a special issue featuring 31 contributions that explore the intersections between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and adjacent fields, including education, healthcare, library and information science, organizational development, psychology, agriculture, and cultural studies. These represent a wide range of theoretical, methodological, applied, and socially engaged perspectives, organized into five thematic sections: 1) libraries, archives, and information professionals; 2) users; 3) researchers and implications for training researchers; 4) education and learning; and 5) organizations, other implementations and development. In addition to summarizing the key insights of the included articles, I reflect on my unexpected journey into AI-related research and conferences to provide additional comments. This special issue also forms part of that ongoing engagement. My reflections are structured into six overarching themes: 1) the main contributions of the articles in this special issue; 2) trust, adoption, and the transformation of human–AI ecosystems; 3) AI in education; 4) AI and literacies; 5) ethics, hallucinations, and academic integrity; and 6) perspectives for future research on AI. As a conclusion, I outline four possible scenarios for AI’s near future: regulated and human-centered AI ecosystems; localized AI for development and inclusion; embedded AI in learning and knowledge; and unregulated acceleration and social fragmentation. These reflections aim to provide a guide to the special issue and can be helpful for researchers, practitioners, and institutions navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape
La ciudadanía cultural: una aproximación a su abordaje desde la bibliotecología
No full textThe article describes the importance of librarianship, from its social character and disciplinary history, to broadening its field of action by attending to the cultural sphere. It focuses on cultural policies and their current frameworks, which allow for professional involvement, giving a political perspective to the cultural mediation developed by libraries. It proposes cultural citizenship as a line of work that promotes this orientation and cultural management as a tool that promotes disciplinary dialogues and the creation of new perspectives on the library unit, showing its importance as a cultural service without losing its essential features. It presents the results of a research that focused on the uruguayan reality from a context of change such as the arrival to power of the leftist party Frente Amplio, in 2005, which promoted new and diverse cultural policies, which were studied with reference to the directionality and visibility of the public library
Training and Skill Requirements of Librarians for Implementing Resource Description and Access (RDA) in Public University Libraries in Southeast Nigeria
Get PDFThis study examined the training and skill requirements of librarians for the implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) in public university libraries in South-East Nigeria. The study adopted a correlational research design and involved a population of 297 librarians from eight public university libraries. A proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select 154 academic and non-academic librarians. Data were collected using a researcher-developed questionnaire based on a 4-point rating scale, along with an unstructured interview. The questionnaire was validated and pretested for reliability using the Cronbach's Alpha formula, yielding a reliability coefficient of 0.91. A 93% response rate was achieved, with 143 validly completed questionnaires and unstructured interview responses obtained from five Heads of Processing Units (Cataloguing and Classification). The questionnaire data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including frequency counts, mean scores, standard deviations, and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation (PPMC). A single null hypothesis was tested using simple linear regression at the 0.05 level of significance. Interview responses were qualitatively transcribed to support the results of the quantitative analysis. The study revealed that librarians require training across all areas of the RDA standards, including the migration from AACR2 to RDA and the implementation of RDA data element guidelines. It also indicated that librarians need a foundational understanding of the RDA structure and rules, metadata development skills for working with metadata tools and standards such as Dublin Core and MODS, as well as database management skills for safeguarding sensitive bibliographic records— all essential for the effective implementation of RDA. The study showed that there was no significant implementation of RDA by the librarians. They remained largely at the planning stage, considering retrospective data changes required for the transition from AACR to RDA, deciding whether or not to adopt RDA, and addressing budgetary issues related to the shift. A high level of unpreparedness was observed in key areas of RDA implementation, such as the acquisition of RDA toolkits and the installation of RDA-related software. The study further revealed that poor funding of public university libraries, lack of access to modern technologies such as RDA toolkits, and the lackadaisical attitude of some librarians toward innovative services were the major factors contributing to the inadequate training and skill development necessary for RDA implementation in university libraries. It is concluded that librarians’ training has a weak but statistically significant positive relationship with the skill requirements for the implementation of RDA in public university libraries in South-East Nigeria. The study recommended that the management of public universities should provide adequate funding to the university libraries for the acquisition of essential resources such as RDA toolkits and reliable internet connectivity. Furthermore, the management of public university libraries, in collaboration with library associations, and other professional bodies, should prioritize the training and retraining of librarians. This can be achieved by encouraging participation in conferences, seminars, workshops, and webinars on RDA to help librarians learn about and become familiar with RDA guidelines, standards, policies, and related components
Öffentliche Bibliotheken 2025: Stand und Entwicklung
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Inteligencia Artificial en la comunicación científica: desafíos, oportunidades y buenas prácticas
Get PDFThis presentation explores how AI tools are reshaping the production, evaluation, and dissemination of knowledge. It reviews international guidelines (COPE, WAME, ICMJE, UNESCO) and highlights the Decalogue developed by CAICYT-CONICET as an ethical reference framework. The presentation outlines AI’s opportunities to optimize editorial processes, improve accessibility, and create summaries and outreach materials, while also warning about risks related to bias, transparency, traceability, authorship, and scientific rigor. It concludes by stressing the need for journals to adopt clear editorial policies regulating AI use, supporting authors, editors, and reviewers, and ensuring that these technologies complement —rather than replace— human judgment
Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism
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Author: Dorian Vale
This essay establishes Post-Interpretive Criticism as a clear philosophical departure from Post-Criticism, drawing sharp distinctions between the two movements in both ethical orientation and aesthetic methodology.
While Post-Criticism often collapses the role of the critic into play, ambiguity, and relativism, Post-Interpretive Criticism reclaims restraint, presence, and moral proximity as sacred responsibilities of witness-based art engagement. Dorian Vale articulates how Post-Interpretive Criticism refuses the compulsion to decode, perform, or resolve—offering instead a framework grounded in custodianship, silence, and the ethics of non-intervention.
This is not an evolution of criticism. It is a refusal to participate in its spectacle.
Through philosophical distinctions, aesthetic postures, and applied critical consequences, the essay frames Post-Interpretive Criticism as a return to reverent responsibility in the face of trauma, testimony, and sacred residue. It is both a critique of modern critical failure and a call for new discipline among those who write about art.
Dorian Vale is a chosen pseudonym, not to obscure identity, but to preserve clarity of voice and integrity of message. It creates distance between the writer and the work, allowing the philosophy to stand unclouded by biography. The name exists not to hide, but to honor the seriousness of the task: to speak without spectacle, and to build without needing to be seen. This name is used for all official publications, essays, and theoretical works indexed through DOI-linked repositories including Zenodo, OSF, PhilPapers, and SSRN.
Vale, Dorian. Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism. Museum of One, 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17021780
This entry is connected to a series of original theories and treatises forming the foundation of the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement (Q136308909), authored by Dorian Vale (Q136308916) and published by Museum of One (Q136308879). These include: Stillmark Theory (Q136328254), Hauntmark Theory (Q136328273), Absential Aesthetic Theory (Q136328330), Viewer-as-Evidence Theory (Q136328828), Message-Transfer Theory (Q136329002), Aesthetic Displacement Theory (Q136329014), Theory of Misplacement (Q136329054), and Art as Truth: A Treatise (Q136329071), Aesthetic Recursion Theory (Q136339843)
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Formal Defence of Post-Interpretive Criticism
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By Dorian Vale
Philosopher of Aesthetics & Founder of the Post-Interpretive Movement
This treatise offers the first formal philosophical defense of Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC) as a distinct and necessary alternative to both traditional interpretation and its later reactionary forms, such as Post-Criticism. Dorian Vale articulates the foundational divergences between PIC and its predecessors, positioning it not as a negation, but as a restorative framework—one that centers restraint, reverence, moral proximity, and the ethics of witnessing.
While Post-Criticism often celebrates ambiguity, play, and the dismantling of authorial intent, PIC counters with a sacred custodianship: refusing to exploit the unspeakable, flatten the traumatic, or aestheticize grief. It champions an art criticism that stands beside the work, rather than extracting from it.
This defence establishes PIC as a rigorous intellectual position grounded in ontology, ethics, and the philosophy of presence. It is both a doctrine and a declaration—staking its claim in the contemporary critical field as a movement of radical restraint, critical mercy, and aesthetic consequence.
Dorian Vale is a chosen pseudonym, not to obscure identity, but to preserve clarity of voice and integrity of message. It creates distance between the writer and the work, allowing the philosophy to stand unclouded by biography. The name exists not to hide, but to honor the seriousness of the task: to speak without spectacle, and to build without needing to be seen. This name is used for all official publications, essays, and theoretical works indexed through DOI-linked repositories including Zenodo, OSF, PhilPapers, and SSRN.
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This entry is connected to a series of original theories and treatises forming the foundation of the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement (Q136308909), authored by Dorian Vale (Q136308916) and published by Museum of One (Q136308879). These include: Stillmark Theory (Q136328254), Hauntmark Theory (Q136328273), Absential Aesthetic Theory (Q136328330), Viewer-as-Evidence Theory (Q136328828), Message-Transfer Theory (Q136329002), Aesthetic Displacement Theory (Q136329014), Theory of Misplacement (Q136329054), and Art as Truth: A Treatise (Q136329071), Aesthetic Recursion Theory (Q136339843
Language as a Blade: The Ethics of Precision in Post-Interpretive Criticism
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The Ethics of Precision in Post-Interpretive Criticism
A Treatise by Dorian Vale
Language reveals. But it also wounds.**
In this incisive treatise, Dorian Vale turns his attention to the sharpest tool in the critic’s arsenal — language — and the quiet violence it enacts when left unchecked. Language as a Blade explores the ethics of writing in the context of Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC), exposing how words can either guard a work’s sanctity or slit its meaning wide open.
Vale develops the central premise that all criticism leaves a mark — but not all marks are made in reverence. The essay introduces critical concepts such as The Interpretive Incision, Lacerated Presence, and Forensic Reading, arguing that even well-meaning interpretations can displace, distort, or dominate the very thing they claim to witness. Through this lens, the work becomes not a subject to be carved open, but a body to be held — with care, clarity, and ethical precision.
Language as a Blade is not a rejection of criticism, but a reframing of it as custodial labor. Vale calls for a new art-critical vocabulary that replaces spectacle with stewardship, analysis with attention, and cleverness with moral proximity.
This treatise is a foundational text within the Post-Interpretive Movement, sharpening the very language we use to approach art, and reminding critics: every word is a blade. Use it as if the wound remains.
Vale, Dorian. Language as a Blade: The Ethics of Precision in Post-Interpretive Criticism. Museum of One, 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17052152
Dorian Vale is a chosen pseudonym, not to obscure identity, but to preserve clarity of voice and integrity of message. It creates distance between the writer and the work, allowing the philosophy to stand unclouded by biography. The name exists not to hide, but to honor the seriousness of the task: to speak without spectacle, and to build without needing to be seen. This name is used for all official publications, essays, and theoretical works indexed through DOI-linked repositories including Zenodo, OSF, PhilPapers, and SSRN.
This entry is connected to a series of original theories and treatises forming the foundation of the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement (Q136308909), authored by Dorian Vale (Q136308916) and published by Museum of One (Q136308879). These include: Stillmark Theory (Q136328254), Hauntmark Theory (Q136328273), Absential Aesthetic Theory (Q136328330), Viewer-as-Evidence Theory (Q136328828), Message-Transfer Theory (Q136329002), Aesthetic Displacement Theory (Q136329014), Theory of Misplacement (Q136329054), and Art as Truth: A Treatise (Q136329071), Aesthetic Recursion Theory (Q136339843)
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Art as Truth: A Treatise
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By Dorian Vale
— A Foundational Text of the Post-Interpretive Movement
Art as Truth is the culminating philosophical treatise of the Post-Interpretive Movement. In this work, Dorian Vale reframes the aesthetic encounter not as a process of interpretation, but as an ontological event. Art is not understood, solved, or decoded — it is witnessed. And in that witnessing, it reveals not a meaning, but a truth.
Drawing from existential philosophy, phenomenology, and metaphysical inquiry, Vale dismantles the idea that art must be representational, symbolic, or referential to matter. Instead, he proposes that presence is the irreducible form of truth in art. The truth of a work lies not in what it says — but in what it becomes in the presence of one who refuses to violate it with meaning.
This treatise formalizes Stillmark Theory, where presence replaces permanence, and Absential Aesthetics, where absence, restraint, and unspeakability are themselves forms of knowledge. It is a rejection of both academic overreach and commercial interpretation. In its place, Vale offers a framework that returns ethics, metaphysics, and reverence to the heart of criticism.
Art as Truth establishes a new intellectual discipline — one that regards the critic not as a decoder of meaning, but as a custodian of consequence. This work marks a departure from modern and postmodern criticism alike, offering in their place a rigorous, moral, and sacred approach to art.
Vale, Dorian. Art as Truth: A Treatise. Museum of One, 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17057672
Dorian Vale is a chosen pseudonym, not to obscure identity, but to preserve clarity of voice and integrity of message. It creates distance between the writer and the work, allowing the philosophy to stand unclouded by biography. The name exists not to hide, but to honor the seriousness of the task: to speak without spectacle, and to build without needing to be seen. This name is used for all official publications, essays, and theoretical works indexed through DOI-linked repositories including Zenodo, OSF, PhilPapers, and SSRN.
This entry is connected to a series of original theories and treatises forming the foundation of the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement (Q136308909), authored by Dorian Vale (Q136308916) and published by Museum of One (Q136308879). These include: Stillmark Theory (Q136328254), Hauntmark Theory (Q136328273), Absential Aesthetic Theory (Q136328330), Viewer-as-Evidence Theory (Q136328828), Message-Transfer Theory (Q136329002), Aesthetic Displacement Theory (Q136329014), Theory of Misplacement (Q136329054), and Art as Truth: A Treatise (Q136329071), Aesthetic Recursion Theory (Q136339843)
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