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Derrida and textual animality: for a zoogrammatology of literature
No full textDerrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature analyses what has come to be known, in the Humanities, as ‘the question of the animal’, in relation to literary texts. Rodolfo Piskorski intervenes in the current debate regarding the non-human and its representation in literature, resisting popular materialist methodological approaches in the field by revisiting and revitalising the post-structuralist thought of Derrida and the ‘linguistic turn’. The book focuses on Derrida’s early work in order to frame deconstructive approaches to literature as necessary for a theory and practice of literary criticism that addresses the question of the animal, arguing that texts are like animals, and animals are like texts. While Derrida’s late writings have been embraced by animal studies scholars due to its overt focus on animality, ethics, and the non-human, Piskorski demonstrates the additional value of these early Derridean texts for the field of literary animal studies by proposing detailed zoogrammatological readings of texts by Freud, Clarice Lispector, Ted Hughes, and Darren Aronofsky, while in dialogue with thinkers such as Butler, Kristeva, Genette, Deleuze and Guattari, and Attridge
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The light that therefore I give (to): paleonymy and animal supplementarity in Clarice Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark
No full textIn Of Grammatology, Derrida deconstructs the ideal/material dichotomy—especially in the speech/writing distinction—thereby locating a differential source to the distinction itself, which he calls arche-writing. Following his interest in “paleonymy,” the author proposes the paleonym arche-animality to understand animality in texts and the term zoogrammatology for a reading of zoopoetics, further arguing that zoopoetics must be approached with an eye toward paleonymy. Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark tells of the passage from nature to culture. Rather than a stage in such a journey, the animal is revealed as an arche-animal, an articulating supplement preceding and making possible the differentiation between evolutionary stages. Piskorski believes arche-animality is located in the poetics of light and dark prefigured in the title and in the novel’s concern with temporality and mortality
The Wine Attributes with the Greatest Influence in the Process of Consumer Choice in Spain
Get PDFThe commercialisation of wine in Spain is problematic due to two concrete circumstances: the decrease in wine consumption because of a consumer shift toward substitute drinks and the greater presence of national and foreign wine in the interior market, which involves an increase in business competitiveness. The increase in competitiveness of quality Spanish wine depends on producing enterprises’ knowledge of wine consumer preferences so they can offer consumers what they demand. In order to respond to this matter and better adapt supply, 421 wine consumers were surveyed using the Best-Worst Scaling methodology. Various segmentations were also made by consumer income and age groups. The results indicate that the two main attributes which condition consumers in choosing wine are the region of origin and having tasted it previously. The region of origin attribute is valued in general by consumers over 34 years old who have a monthly family income above 1,500 €. The attribute of having tasted it before, which on many occasions is associated with the price attribute, is valued particularly by younger consumers and those with lower incomes.Consumer behaviour, Wine attributes, Food Marketing, Consumer/Household Economics,
Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres talk at University of Washington Tacoma: After Latino Metropolis
No full textThe role of class and spatial politics in Latino Los Angeles will be the subject of this timely talk. Professor Rodolfo D. Torres is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). He will revisit this important book
How corporate governance and globalization can run afoul of the law and good practices in business: The Enron's disgraceful affair.
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to set out the Enron’s demise into the perspective of Corporate and Global Governance. To accomplish this target, the incremental cash flow model is expanded to give room for governance issues, while a functional introduction to information sets is developed, including bounded rationality, asymmetric information, opportunistic behavior, transaction costs and agency problems. Then, corporate governance is linked to globalization by means of some recent approaches that go beyond a narrow economic mindset to encompass a far-reaching dynamics. Taking advantage of such background, the Enron’s story is tracked down over a span of fifteen years since its starting day to its bankruptcy filing. Leading events are explained from corporate and global governance viewpoints, while an in-depth analysis is worked out on Enron’s complex game of deception and breach of contracts: the outrageous affiliated limited partnerships, the lavish pay package to its executives, the involvement with global governance through the Indian affair and the Taliban connection. It is for the incremental cash flow model to explain malfeasance with cash flows from assets, and how cash flows to creditors were actually contrived. Furthermore, to highlight how cash flows were swindled from stockholders and, finally, how Enron made wheeling and dealing with cash flows on behalf of its managers.corporate governance, global governance, incremental cash flow model, globalization, information sets, good practices.
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo
Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the
expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the
compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in
Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the
institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean
nationalityEn este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética
personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el
lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo.
Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el
estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las
lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual
el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
A Voz do poema: a phoné e a poiesis no canto sem palavras
Get PDFEste artigo explora conceitualmente os problemas teóricos da poesia em sua relação com a prosa, a escrita e a voz como esboço de uma teoria para se pensar a música vocal sem palavras. Primeiramente, possíveis definições da poesia são discutidas, juntamente com outras dicotomias problemáticas relacionadas à linguagem (fala/escrita, canto/fala, humano/animal). A música vocal sem palavras é identificada como um lócus privilegiado para se pensar a relação entre a voz, a linguagem, a música, e o corpo. O uso do canto sem palavras é analisado em duas peças em relação as questões da voz, da linguagem, do significado, e do corpo, sendo ambas baseadas em poemas muito diferentes: La Mort d’Ophélie, canção para voz e piano de Hector Berlioz (1842), e Flos Campi, para viola solo, coro e orquestra, de Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1925). Finalmente, elenca-se algumas conclusões com relação ao caráter único do canto sem palavras em relação ao papel ambíguo da voz na filosofia da linguagem e na teoria do poema
Círculos viciosos: intersecções de gênero e espécie em A Fonte da Vida, de Darren Aronofsky
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O filme de Darren Aronofsky, A Fonte da Vida (The Fountain, 2006), se oferece a uma leitura produtiva das formas em que discursos de opressão se interseccionam ao serem codificados cinemática e/ou ideologicamente. Este artigo analisa as diferenças de gênero, espécie e raça/etnia no filme e o modo em que são constitutivamente articuladas para possibilitar a “imanência” do Outro em cada um desses discursos, produzindo assim o sujeito “transcendental”. Parto de uma compreensão filosófica do papel essencial da diferença de espécie (e do privilégio do status do humano) na constituição interseccional de outros vetores de diferença, como o gênero, o sexo, a raça e a etnia. Articulo, enfim, esse modo amplo de abordagem interseccional com uma discussão da relação com a morte que é supostamente exclusivamente humana e que permite que a humanidade seja construída como oposta à animalidade
A Produção do Humanismo da Alta Idade Moderna em A Tempestade de Shakespeare
Get PDFEste artigo lê A Tempestade de Shakespeare como peça-chave de uma genealogia e de uma desconstrução pós-humanista do humanismo da Alta Idade Moderna (séc. XVI-XVIII) e da dicotomia humano/animal, tanto por estar historicamente situada entre a Renascença e a Modernidade, quanto por dramatizar o próprio processo de produção do humanismo (e do humano em oposição ao animal). Assim, a “peça” ilusionista que Prospero monta na ilha para convencer seus conterrâneos do seu direito legítimo ao trono pode ser vista como a encenação necessária para se produzir o humano de acordo com os novos valores modernos que vêem a arte como ferramenta para o poder e o conhecimento. Também é analisada a importância da inauguração da divisão ontológica humano/animal para a encenação de Prospero, através da qual ele pode ativar a máquina antropológica, como a chama Agamben, e fabricar a civilidade humana moderna
El funcionalismo de rodolfo lenz
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This paper deals with the contributions to Hispanic Linguistics by the German-Chilean linguist Rodolfo Lenz (1863–1935), some of whose proposals – often attributed to other scholars – may be seen as an alternative to the ideas of the prestigious Andrés Bello (1781–1865). The paper first reviews those aspects of his work which anticipate some of the basic tenets of Functional Grammar, such as the notion of ‘transposition’ (function shifting), his views on sentential structure, and his treatment of passives as attributive constructions. The paper also explores Lenz’s contributions to Indo-European linguistics and his theoretical affinities with, if not anticipations of, the work of other well-known linguists like Búhler, Tesnière, Hjelmslev, and Benveniste. In sum, the author seeks to vindicate Rodolfo Lenz and his insightful views in both general linguistic theory and Spanish grammar.</jats:p
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