Book Review: Ethics and Discomfort by Staw, Ana

“…Ethics and discomfort. Essays on ethics and psychoanalysis. Eduardo Laso Red editions, Buenos Aires, 2016 193 pages  …”
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Maisie: the subject of the unconscious beyond the child by Nuñez, Valeria

“…However, the directors show, to those who do not want to keep up with the parent’s different ideas that create a trauma to the kid, the possibility of the invention of the subject-kid, that one who, according to Lacan’s terminology, stands and does what he has to do with his real. In this short essay, we will try not only to focus on the difficulties that to the kid’s psyche mean the lack of significance from the Other, but also the position the kid takes as subject of true right to have a place in the Other…”
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The Colombian Exile in Spain: Peace Dialogues, a Before and an Afte by Martínez Leguízamo, Jeisson

“…The last part looks into the new participatory practices developed within the Peace Talks atmosphere, paying attention to the resources used to include their demands in the Peace Process. Finally, the essay suggests some possible tensions and concerns which can emerge in the future, as a collective, and outlines new research perspectives.…”
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We should stop talking about Benjamin for two years. Art, technique and mass by Greco, Mauro

“…On the one hand, a presentation of famous Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” such as it can be follow in a careful lecture, paying attention to his argumentation. …”
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Aquarius’ declaration by Cormick, María Daniela, Pierri, Carla

“…This essay seeks to share discussions, contradictions and questions that the film Aquarius produced on us, on the basis of our backgrounds and experiences as workers of the public health system. …”
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INTELLECTUALS AND REVOLUTION. CORTÁZAR: A POETICS FOR POLITICS by Demarchi, Rogelio

“…Julio Cortázar, on the other hand, not only maintained his adhesion to the socialist project and claimed the freedom and autonomy of the intellectuals, but also wanted to be the Guevara of letters and proposed a poetics for politics: socialism could only be —from his perspective— if it knew how to be poetry. This essay describes that program based on a critical reading of his correspondence and his work.…”
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The ambivalent search for the Lost Father by Brok, Albert

“…This essay fills a gap in our understanding of Benigno by placing in sharper focus the internal location of “Men” and “Fathers” in his psychological life as illustrated by the film narrative. …”
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Wonderwoman and Captain Marvel Diverging: approaches to feminist ethics by Rodríguez Celi, Julián

“…In this essay are adressed two exciting films where female superheroes are protagonists. …”
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Argentina’s Exchange Rate Policy between 2016 and 2019. Context and possible scenarios from a Political Economy Perspective by Massot, Juan Miguel

“…Regarding this matter, this essay examines the sustainability of the managed flexible exchange rate policy currently in force in the country between December 2015 and the primary elections on August 2019, and the viability of adopting a fixed exchange rate for a certain period. …”
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Dialectics of disaster by Jamenson, Fredric

“…The article today released by the journal Estudios has originally been published in South Atlantic Quarterly (Vol. 101, Number 2, Duke University Press, 2002, p. 297-304), and then reproduced in the compilation Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11, edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Lentricchia (Duke University Press, Durham & London, 2003, pp. 55-62). …”
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That intimate stranger by Viñal, Celeste

“…Extimacy is then presented in this essay as a conceptual contribution fromwhich it is possible to trace various reflections on our present time.From there and taking into account the contributions of art, it will be possible to reflect on the processes of segregation, one of the problems thatour current society is going through with a notable presence…”
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Rosas and rosismo: readings on the plebiscitary republic by Ternavasio, Marcela

“…This essay reflects on the complex relationship, historical and historiographical, between Rosas and Rosismo and deals with certain problems and blind spots that the experiment of a plebiscitary republic in Buenos Aires presented in the first half of the 19th century and its derivations in the later interpretations. …”
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Françoise Dolto’s analytical practice: reflections on the use of drawings from a biographical film by Danta Guedes, Dilcio

“…This essay articulates some considerations on the analytical practice of Françoise Dolto and her handling of pictorial productions of child patients. …”
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¿Qué encontrarás en esta sección? by de Extensión, Secretaría

“…This section is devoted to the expression of narratives on practices and experiences related to university extension told through various mini-documentaries, cartographies, graphic comics/historicals, photonarratives/photo-essays, among other forms of recording).…”
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Birth and Early History of Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics by Perona, Eugenia

“…The main objective of this essay is to offer a systematic and comprehensive survey of the early developments in nonlinear dynamics in economics, ranging form Frisch’s original impulse and propagation model in 1933, to Goodwin’s formalisation of the limit cycle in 1951.  …”
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The Big Screen as a Laboratory and Mirror for Roboethics by Biscaia Fernández, José Miguel

“…Roboethics is a branch of applied ethics interested in the ethical and social challenges of robotics and artificial intelligence. In this essay I use the science-fiction cinema to reflect in this discipline, taking into account the dual function of this genre as “mirror” of the techno-scientific avant-garde and as a “laboratory” for futuristic speculation and social influence. …”
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Regretting Mothers in The Lost Daughter by Lima, Natacha Salomé

“…The analysis follows the story of Leda, an Italian literature professor who, after a random encounter with a young mother, recalls and updates her own motherhood. The essay reviews the relationship of women with themselves as mothers, considering her role, but also the myths that link motherhood with an inexorable destiny for women.…”
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Araripe Júnior and the Hyperesthesia of the Tropical Serial by Fernandez, Juan Manuel

“…Also around hyperesthesia, the prescriptive intervention of his essays seeks to regulate the influence of a monstrous Zola, in his ability to show and make people feel the reality of precarious modern life. …”
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¿Qué encontrarás en esta sección? by Extensión, Secretaría de

“…This section is devoted to the expression of narratives on practices and experiences related to university extension told through various mini-documentaries, cartographies, graphic comics/historicals, photonarratives/photo-essays, among other forms of recording).…”
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Terrorism versus Capitalism? Consequences for Argentina and selected Hispanic countries by Colomé, Rinaldo Antonio

“…The surprise caused by the question raised was only overcome by the result of the survey: something like 67% replied that humanity's worst enemy is capitalism and the rest, or 33%, voted for terrorism. The purpose of this essay is to analyze, in the first place, the relevance of the proposed option; second, the result of the survey and the implications regarding capitalism and; thirdly, the economic position of Argentina in relation to selected Latin American countries.…”
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