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Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society
2018
Nearing a century since its inception, quantum mechanics is as lively as ever. Its signature manifestations, such as superposition, wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle, entanglement and nonlocality, were long confronted as weird predictions of an incomplete theory, paradoxes only suitable for philosophical discussions, or mere mathematical artifacts with no counterpart in the physical reality. Nevertheless, decades of progress in the experimental verification and control of quantum systems have routinely proven detractors wrong. While fundamental questions still remain wide open on the foundations and interpretations of quantum mechanics, its modern technological applications have …
Más allá del acero: Otros metales y sus usos en la arquitectura del siglo XXI
2009
[ES] El protagonismo que ostentan los metales como compuestos básicos para el desenvolvimiento cotidiano de la vida humana resulta evidente e irrefutable. Del mismo modo que una mayoría de las actividades diarias que realizamos serían imposibles sin el apoyo que nos brinda el metal, un amplio porcentaje de la arquitectura de la última centuria también hace descansar sus fundamentos en la solidez de una estructura metálica. Más allá del hierro como predecesor y del acero como digno sucesor, la constructiva recurre asimismo con asiduidad a otros metales para conformar con ellos la imagen final del edificio, redundando en ésta componentes tanto técnicos como expresivos de los que son responsab…
Due racconti in versi di Giulio Mozzi
2016
The article is a close reading of two poetic short stories by the Italian writer Giulio Mozzi (1960) from the collection "Il male naturale" (1998).
Contemporary Polish poetry for children
2021
This article mainly deals with the history of the contemporary Polish poetry for children (end of XX century — beginning of XXI). The author shows how contemporary children’s poetry is linked with the traditional one (and also some folklore forms), characterizes the creative styles of several contemporary poets (J. Twardowski, Z. Beszczyńska, J. Kulmowa, W. Oszajca), and points out several breaks from the tradition. The author names two main streams in children’s contemporary poetry as “Lyric poetry” and “Playing with words”, and speaks in detail of their creative approaches and readers’ pragmatics. Especially interesting is the comparison of contemporary children’s poetry samples and the c…
The challenge of contemporary society on science education: The case of global warming.
2014
The big problems that contemporary society needs to address (e.g. climate change) challenge our traditional idea of education and require to revise the goals of science education research. Such problems are indeed so complex as to require a wide range of competencies to be engaged in producing and implementing solution strategies. Science education is forced to take into account the many dimensions that characterize contemporary science and to face the task of bringing together the potential of all the different perspectives (Tasquier & Nonni, 2011). An example of this kind of research, concerning environmental problems, will be briefly described and its first encouraging results illustrate…
La filosofía política del transnacionalismo en la migración: Una respuesta al debate entre el liberalismo y el comunitarismo
2019
Uno de los problemas a los cuales se ha enfrentado la filosofía contemporánea, es lograr materializar sus postulados; de allí, que el presente artículo muestra un análisis crítico del liberalismo y el comunitarismo a partir del análisis de sus conceptos y principios rectores como modelos políticos filosóficos. Al finalizar, el trabajo formula una respuesta material al fenómeno propuesto, a través de la construcción de un modelo integrador que toma en consideración, los diferentes contrastes de la realidad actual que tienen las sociedades.
#RevueltasEstéticas: Del #yosoy132 a #Ayotzinapa
2016
El objetivo de este articulo es situar en las esteticas de protesta los dispositivos que se despliegan en manifestaciones sociales como practicas artisticas contemporaneas. En dos casos en Mexico, el movimiento “yo soy 132” y las manifestaciones por los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa. Se aborda la relacion entre politica y estetica desde el planteamiento de que el arte contribuye a la formacion de subjetividades politicas, y la forma en que estas practicas criticas se han desplegado en la esfera publica. The purpose of this article is to place within the aesthetic of protest, devices that are deployed in social demonstrations and contemporary art practices. In two scenarios in M…
Introduzione ad Arte : Artworks, mimesis, agency
2021
Il volume raccoglie alcune delle relazioni tenute all’interno del ciclo di seminari Antropologia dell’arte, organizzato nel 2019 dall’Associazione per la conservazione delle tradizioni popolari in collaborazione con l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo e curato da Rosario Perricone. Il seminario comprendeva diversi incontri durante i quali studiosi di diversi ambiti disciplinari hanno dibattuto su concetti, nozioni e oggetti che si pongono al crocevia tra le discipline dell’antropologia, della storia dell’arte, della semiotica, degli studi culturali, della visual culture, delineando talvolta fenomeni di ibridazione delle pratiche artistiche ed etnografiche e, talvolta, di dissolvenza delle …
Etnografie ad arte : agency, mimesis, creatività e pratica degli artworks
2021
Il volume raccoglie alcune delle relazioni tenute all’interno del ciclo di seminari Antropologia dell’arte, organizzato nel 2019 dall’Associazione per la conservazione delle tradizioni popolari in collaborazione con l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo e curato da Rosario Perricone. Il seminario comprendeva diversi incontri durante i quali studiosi di diversi ambiti disciplinari hanno dibattuto su concetti, nozioni e oggetti che si pongono al crocevia tra le discipline dell’antropologia, della storia dell’arte, della semiotica, degli studi culturali, della visual culture, delineando talvolta fenomeni di ibridazione delle pratiche artistiche ed etnografiche e, talvolta, di dissolvenza delle …
A hermeneutical genealogy of the poeticization of signs in Nietzsche’s philosophy of body
2016
The main objective of this article is to show that Nietzsche’s genealogy reveals the semiotic and hermeneutical character of all human activities and that its origin is rooted in the body of the imaginative animal, especially in the poeticizing power of its imagination. Thus is revealed the great signifi cance of Nietzsche’s philosophy of body, which provides a more complete approach for transforming contemporary philosophy, and can also help us to move past current neurophilosophy.