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El problema de la autoridad en la cultura (profecía, interpretación, ficción)
2020
ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the issue of the crisis or vanishing of authority in contemporary culture in the particular form of the problem of legitimacy in the use of language. What grounds can speakers find in order to justify their claim to be listened to? I point out that, since this problem has been examined for quite some time in the area of Biblical studies, we could improve our understanding of the current situation by means of an interdisciplinary dialogue. From this perspective, I consider claims to authority under three headings: prophecy, or the individual authority of the speaker; interpretation, or authority derived from a written source; fiction, or renouncing authority; a…
Important thoughts on images and words
2015
Both images and words have their unique materiality that tends to be forgotten or bypassed in our modern times and perhaps in particular in our technology-driven contemporary culture. This oblivion...
Redención de un orden material en la escultura de William Tucker
2016
Con las esculturas presentadas por William Tucker a partir de mediados de los ochenta, su obra -y en ello expone las busquedas y el sentido de la cultura contemporanea- asume un grado fundacional en el sentido de que pasa del mero concepto, de un primer rudimento de espacializacion, a un despertar material, sentando asi las bases de una recuperacion simbolica. With the sculptures done by William Tucker since mid-eighties, his work -in relation with the searches and the sense of our contemporary culture- assume a foundational status. With this axial position, Tucker’s sculpture goes from the mere concept to the material awakening, showing by means of this an emerging symbolism.
Phantom/liminal fat and feminist theories of the body
2017
This article brings together two concepts, ‘phantom fat’ and ‘liminal fat’, which both aim to grasp how fat in contemporary culture becomes a kind of material immateriality, corporeality in suspension. Comparing the spheres of representation and experience, we examine the challenges and usefulness of these concepts, and feminist fat studies perspectives more broadly, to feminist scholarship on the body. We ask what connects and disconnects fat corporeality and fat studies from ways of theorising other embodied differences, like gender, ‘race’, disability, class and sexuality, especially when thinking through their perceived mutability or removability, and assumptions about their relevance …