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<i>The Machine in the Garden</i> in the 21st Century
2017
In this essay I will suggest Leo Marx’s debt to a style of thinking about technology which cuts against the grain of the liberal humanism and liberal progressive ideology that informs his writing. This style of thinking, associated with the word technicity, underscores the intimacy of our relation to technology. The Machine in the Garden insists that technology is a crucial aspect of our human nature—it encourages us to see that nature is inseparable from our technological condition. In this sense, the machine and the garden are confounded in Marx’s book. The book’s key themes and conflicts short-circuit the mission to promote the liberal individualist illusion of escape from the shaping fo…
Reforma sexual, control de natalidad, naturismo y pacifismo. La cultura libertaria trasatlántica en las décadas de 1920 y 1930: Estudios. Revista Ecl…
2019
The editors and main collaborators to the influential Spanish libertarian magazine Estudios (Valencia, 1928-1937) showed a permanent interest in connecting the magazine with the main networks of global anarchism in the interwar years, and also with contemporary international campaigns in defense of birth control, eugenics, sexual reform, naturism or pacifism. As its predecessor did—the magazine Generacion Consciente (1923-1928)—, Estudios was linked to well-known militants, writers, scientists and propagandists in general of those ideas and practices in Europe and America. Estudios built networks using the magazine itself, its personal contacts with those individuals, and also an active boo…
Injustice in the Ruins and a Disordered Post-Apocalypse: Gothic Ideology in the Digital Game World of Fallout 3
2020
The Gothic is an influential source for storytelling in a wide range of digital games. Thus far, interpreting it in games and how they are informed by Gothic ideology has been little studied. This study seeks to address this gap in research by investigating these issues in the narrative of the action role-playing game, Fallout 3. More specifically, through a close reading of the game narrative and by drawing on theories of the Gothic, ideological aspects of the Gothic are analyzed in detail with specific reference to non-player characters and their actions and dialogue along with elements of the mise-en-scéne, style, and simulation. Results show how classic Gothic ideology is reproduced in …
Controlling the image of the teacher’s body under authoritarianism: the case of Soviet Latvia (1953–1984)
2017
The ideal of the Soviet teacher can be revealed in Soviet mass media, but historians are challenged by the question “what was the actual reality”? Therefore, we addressed the reality of the Soviet ...
Not only 23F. PSOE and the autonomic rationalization (1978-1982)
2021
La firma de los Acuerdos Autonómicos por parte del PSOE y UCD en julio de 1981 ha sido interpretada tradicionalmente como consecuencia directa del frustrado golpe de Estado del 23F. Este artículo revisa este análisis a partir de documentación interna e inédita, atribuyendo la toma de posición del Partido Socialista, no solo a una reacción frente la intentona involucionista, sino como producto de un proceso mucho más amplio, iniciado tras la aprobación de la Constitución. Los socialistas, condicionados por su trayectoria ideológica, fueron elaborando una política en materia autonómica que estuvo marcada por la coyuntura y que dependió tanto de los avatares del contexto estatal como de los qu…
<i>The Ideological Framework of the French Nouvelle Droite and the Contemporary Finnish Far Right</i>
2015
This article deals with the xenophobic discourse of contemporary Finnish anti-immigrationists, namely the anti-immigration faction of the Perussuomalaiset party and its 'metapolitical' background organisation - Suomen Sisu. It focuses on two main themes - differentialism and anti-egalitarianism - as they have been conceptualised by the French Nouvelle Droite (ND) and the European New Right. Because these themes have been used to serve a variety of anti-immigration movements and parties within Europe, the article examines whether the selective reception of differentialism and anti-egalitarianism have a part to play in the xenophobic discourse within Finnish politics as well. The Finnish anti…
The formation of aggregate expectations: wisdom of the crowds or media influence?
2017
ABSTRACTThe general elections of 2015 in Spain were elections of change. Two new parties for which voters had no previous historical reference points burst onto the parliamentary scene. Two (partially) opposed theories vie to offer an explanation as to how voters build their aggregate electoral expectations. In this paper, we investigate which mechanism has the greatest influence on the formation of expectations: published opinion or social interactions. Likewise, we also study if there is an ideological bias in the voters’ perception of the future results of the electoral battle. Based on analysis of microdata from a survey (sample size = 14,262) conducted in Spain on the occasion of the g…
Anverso y reverso de la nación: el discurso de la antiespañolada durante los primeros años 40
2015
During the immediate postwar years, different voices from the new francoist regime produced a discourse relatively spontaneous but, at the same time, recognizable enough addressed to denounce what they considered as an unacceptable deformation of the Spanishness. Basically, and in spite of the ideological differences amongst its producers, the critic raised from a common and painful nationalism which pointed at the foreign look —specially, the French romantic look— as creator and supporter of what they called España de pandereta. This look supposed a distortion and mystification of Spain as a picturesque nation that resulted in the españolada. The aim of this article is to explore this disc…
Cinq theses sur la litterature-monde en français: une polémique
2010
Le concept de littérature-monde n’est pas dénué de contradictions internes. Le présent article tente de s’interroger sur les fondements idéologiques de cette notion et la conjoncture internationale qui l’a fait naître. Sous formes de thèses et de manière volontairement polémique, l’article tente de montrer que la notion même est le résultat d’une littérature française dont la primauté est de plus en plus contestée. Par ailleurs, lorsque les fondateurs de ce concept déclarent la fin de la Francophonie, il est peu clair de quelle francophonie ils parlent et ils ne semblent guère familiers avec les organisations francophones. Par ailleurs, elle peut être considérée comme une adaptation fidèle …
Detrás de las palabras: usos políticos del concepto de imparcialidad y su función en la construcción de la historia de América en la Ilustración espa…
2018
En tiempos de renovado debate sobre el presentismo y la objetividad de los historiadores, pretendo indagar en los usos ideológicos y las funciones políticas que desempeñó el concepto de imparcialidad en la Ilustración española, su relación con la escritura de la historia y, más particularmente, con la conquista de América. A partir de diversos textos impresos de finales del s. XVIII e inicios del s. XIX —apologías, elogios, diccionarios y otros textos literarios— y adoptando una metodología que aúna la historia cultural y de los conceptos, me detendré en cómo las élites culturales dieciochescas atribuyeron al concepto un significado positivo y necesario para construir los discursos sobre lo…