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On Utopias, Neo-Catholics and Politics
2021
El presente trabajo explora la pertinencia, o no, del uso de la categoría analítica de utopía en relación con el proyecto político de los neocatólicos en la España de Isabel II. Las dificultades del empleo de este concepto, así como su rechazo por parte de los protagonistas de la época, ofrecen una oportunidad para delimitar el sentido político y cultural del catolicismo intransigente en la sociedad postrevolucionaria. Sus propuestas enlazaron con demandas de grupos diversos temerosos ante los riesgos desestabilizadores del soberanismo partidario del decisionismo. This paper explores the approprietness of utopia used as an analytical category in relation to the political project of Neo-Cath…
A cultural analysis of the visual signs in the Zapatistas websites
2012
A political movement initiated in Mexico known as Zapatism is analysed through the visual objects displayed in their websites on the Internet. The objective is to make a cultural analysis and interpretation of the visual representation of Zapatistas websites, to expose their visual identity through the most salient visual signs and their corresponding cultural meanings. The analytical method introduced in this study is divided in three major aims: consolidating a pool of images retrieved from Zapatistas websites, finding patterns of visual elements within these images, and providing an interpretation for the visual signs emerging from such patterns. In the analysis, three images emerged as …
Communication, mind, and culture : a model of conversation meaning
2002
This dissertation is a theoretical study of conversation meaning. The aim was to build a comprehensive theory of conversation meaning on the basis of the theories of cultural schemas, distributed cognition, and neural networks. The philosophical tradition of transcendental realism was introduced, and a metaphysical analysis of culture was presented. It was concluded that culture belongs to the realm of mind, and culture and society were strictly distinguished. By acknowledging the importance of culture in mind, rarious traditions of conversation research were critically reviewed. It was proposed that conversation is a distributed cognitive system, and the nature of conversation meaning was …