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Elementos de un marxismo borgeano. Sobre la recepción de Walter Benjamin en la obra de José Sazbón
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Conocimiento, poder y transformación digital en América Latina
Full text linkEl manejo de los recursos asociados al conocimiento es uno de los temas más controvertidos y discutidos de nuestro tiempo. Los debates y conflictos globales sobre el aprovechamiento, la transferencia, la monopolización, la democratización y la diversificación de los saberes siempre están vinculados con cuestiones de poder social, político y económico. Las nuevas tecnologías y los nuevos formatos mediáticos permiten, por un lado, un mejor acceso al conocimiento como recurso y, por tanto, un mayor grado de participación política y social de sectores más amplios de la población. Al mismo tiempo, la valorización de conocimientos por parte de las corporaciones globales, por ejemplo, a través de la adquisición, a veces ilegal, de datos o el reclamo y la imposición de derechos de propiedad intelectual, promueve la formación de monopolios de saber que sirven a fines comerciales y exacerban las desigualdades sociales. Además, la diversidad cultural y lingüística de América Latina obliga a un cuestionamiento fundamental de las epistemologías eurocéntricas y a una reflexión general sobre las dimensiones culturales de la producción, la transformación y el almacenamiento del conocimiento y sobre la transformación digital.
Las contribuciones a este volumen abordan desde distintas perspectivas disciplinarias y nacionales los procesos de producción, transformación y almacenamiento del conocimiento en América Latina. Se toman en cuenta sus múltiples articulaciones y las dinámicas de la producción de saberes en contextos coloniales y postcoloniales. El volumen representa una importante contribución a los debates globales sobre la interacción entre conocimiento, poder y transformación digital
The Impact of the Corona Crisis on the Gender Gap in Care Work and Housework
Full text linkThis paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in unpaid care work and housework in Berlin. Utilizing quantitative data from a survey, it explores how pandemic-induced changes in work and family dynamics have influenced the distribution of unpaid labour between genders. The findings reveal that women, particularly mothers, have disproportionately shouldered the burden of increased unpaid work, reflecting and amplifying pre-existing gender inequalities. The study highlights the role of sociodemographic factors, including income and employment status, in shaping the division of unpaid labour and suggests that pandemic measures have reinforced traditional gender roles, despite previous policy efforts towards gender equality. The paper calls for policies that address these disparities and support a more equitable division of unpaid work
Receiving Words: Towards a Poetics of Hospitality
Full text linkThe present paper deals with the question of whether hospitality might be thought as a scene of translation. But who is the guest, and who is the host in translation? How can hospitality be conceived from a perspective of translation? Ultimately, hospitality exhibits an ambivalent, even aporetic pattern. Every stranger, every guest, however welcome they might be, must eventually submit to the host’s house, its law, and its language. Constantly oscillating between amity and hostility, possibility and impossibility, hospitality is always undermined by a moment of violence. In its double bind and ambiguity, hospitality seems to reflect the process of translation as receiving and absorbing, accommodating, and incorporating the Other. By means of an Amerindian perspective, an ethics of translational hospitality – a xenosophy – is to be outlined, seeing translation no longer as a unidirectional and hierarchic economy, but rather as a form of nomadic, cannibal conviviality, an act of mutual transformation
As formas da comunidade: Convivialidade, corpo e política pós-conflito entre os Ashaninka do rio Ene (Amazônia peruana)
Full text linkAs dinâmicas conviviais da vida contemporânea dos Ashaninka que habitam
parte da Amazônia peruana são fortemente marcadas pelo passado recente do
conflito armado interno no país e pelo contínuo avanço de ameaças armadas no
presente. Como forma de lidar com esses passados-presentes de violência, práticas
específicas de convivialidade são realizadas cotidianamente, moduladas por arranjos sociocosmológicos próprios e por negociações com a comunidade nacional. Este trabalho procura abordar os modos como a luta por direitos na arena da política institucional é conjugada (e “traduzida”) de acordo com tais modulações amazônicas da convivialidade, analisando sob que formas tais traduções políticas são produzidas por essas comunidades e a organização política que as reúne. A partir de uma perspectiva etno-histórica sobre o passado recente da política indígena entre as comunidades nativas no rio Ene, a hipótese é a de que falar em uma convivialidade Ashaninka significa levar a sério muito mais do que as relações intersubjetivas entre pessoas humanas, mas um delicado equilíbrio entre os corpos humanos, substâncias e outros seres dotados de agência
Liquid Conviviality in Chilean Documentary Film: Dynamics of Confluences and Counter/fluences
Full text linkGuided by the concept of liquid conviviality, referring to the conflictual connectivity, interrelation, and interaction between human and nonhuman actors in aquatic ecosystems, this Working Paper focuses on the staging of aquatic, and especially fluvial, agency in three examples of recent Chilean documentary films produced between 2008 and 2021. Building on theoretical insights in the blue humanities and material ecocriticism, it scrutinizes the filmic strategies and procedures that frame water as an active player. Furthermore, within a broader perspective of aquatic agency, we ask to which extent the liquid poetics, aesthetics and materialities in these films perform counternarratives facing neocolonial forms of invasion such as extractivism and devastation of watery ecosystems in Indigenous territories. Here, dynamics of confluences and counter/fluences are revealed by performing acts of dissident power and by focusing peripheral knowledges, as well as strategies of resistance
