The Atlantic cartography of the new world and of utopia by Ottonello, Rodrigo

“…Investigaciones político-espaciales, Buenos Aires, Miño y Dávila, 2017), is fundamental and unique in its treatment of both the political and metaphysical reasons and consequences of the cosmologies elaborated by Copernicus, Galileo and Newton. …”
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Toponymy of the Wichi of Northwest Formosa, Argentina by Flamini, Marco

“…The studied toponyms evoke narratives that describe a dynamic natural and social environment, inhabited by a multiplicity of beings (human and non-human, physical and metaphysical) intimately linked in a constant cycle of life and death, degeneration and renewal. …”
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From Horror to Body Transmutation in The Cinema of David Cronenberg by Brito Alvarado, Xavier

“…Cronenberg’s cinema, and perhaps its greatest virtue, is that it allows us to connect a critique to the condition of fragility of the biological body in the face of technoscientific advance, however, it also becomes a battlefield, that stage of the abject, from where binary oppositions are answered, and the vehicle to express all types of metaphorical, allegorical, metaphysical and abstract concepts, which dismantles all Cartesian dualist narrative. …”
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Rites of passage from a gender perspective in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood by Sánchez, María Victoria

“…She begins a journey towards the ¨surfacing¨ of a new historic and metaphysical being. A lot of questions can be raised from this hypothesis; however, the ones that concern us are: Does Atwood’s main character represent a voice of the subaltern? …”
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Authoritarianism and whiteness: contemporary ultra-rights in the West by Orozco, Ricardo

“…The present text aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions around the emergence of new ultra or extreme right-wing movements around the world, in general, and in the West, in particular, recovering, on the one hand, the contributions made by materialist readings (non-metaphysical) of modern culture and racism, from the rescue of Marx's critical discourse by American social thought, and on the other, the theorizations formulated by social philosophy about the forms that modern authoritarianism takes within the margins of reproduction of contemporary capitalism. …”
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