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The central biographical and philosophical contributions of the Chilean thinker Ricardo Salas Astraín are taught, arguing the relevance of his pedagogical proposal, as well as his writings of the last decade for OurAmerican philosophical and political thought. It also highlights his manifest dedication to the Chilean philosophical diffusion and the formation of networks of intercultural thinking, from a critical thought that combines foreign sources and located in the understanding of contingent political phenomena, keys for the discussion on cultural recognition, carried out in Chile today.

Our paper shows that although the discourse ethics foundation acquires its solidity in strong cognitivism, Habermas does not rule out the presence of feelings within the intersubjective communicative exercise. Taking the concept of the “world of life” (Lebenswelt) as a background, it is possible to argue that, within the ethics of discourse, feelings constitute preconditions present in any claim to validity. They allow us to feel sensitized toward moral facts and are an unavoidable resource in normative application.

This text is a revision of the intercultural question in the thought of R. Kusch, starting from little visited references of his works. We will develop from an ordering of his work that allows this rereading and the consequent indication of three integrated lines of interpretation; a critique of Christian proselytism, a review of institutions, and a philosophical critique. The intercultural question relates to a specific methodological and instrumental discussion concerning various problems derived from institutional devices deployed in the Bolivian Altiplano.

What can make a score appear in the dimension of technique, objects, subjects, and words? This article aims to problematize the score-object from its formation possibilities, under the perspective of the sound materiality that would emerge from its writing and qualities of the temporal plane that would occur in its performance. From this, we seek to install various reflections on the power of a score, that is, how we can give meaning to its signs, margins, and what it says and hides. To this end, the notions of multiplicity and enunciation, examined through the thought of Henri Bergson and Michel Foucault, respectively, appear as conceptual keys that allow us to stress the meaning of signs in the experience of reading them.

In Chile, the term "intercultural" has already gained a certain institutional acceptance. This acceptance, however, is uncritical and radical. Therefore, it is necessary to rethink its purpose in a process that involves returning to its fundamental epistemological and hermeneutical questions. Based on the intercultural theory of Boaventura De Sousa Santos, this article proposes to take the project of Mapuche recovery and revitalization as a key function for a diatopic-intercultural hermeneutics. We explain Santos' theory in general terms and exemplify the diatopic use through two examples of Mapuche recovery.

Resumen: En este artí­culos abordaremos la interpretación secularizada de la filosofí­a hegeliana de la historia en los cí­rculos culturales y literarios rusos desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta comienzos del siglo XX como una clave de interpretación del conflicto sobre el ateí­smo en la Rusia prebolchevique. En esa trama, amplia y diversa, la experiencia estéticas de Dostoievski aparece como un momento especialmente representativo de un largo proceso de tensión entre transformación y conservación de lo que en ese periodo histórico se entendió como la "espiritualidad" rusa, por oposición a una hipotética laicización europea occidental. Con ello analizaremos también el debate sobre el ateí­smo en los cí­rculos literarios como antesala de la institucionalización del ateí­smo en los primeros años de la experiencia soviética del poder.

This article seeks to revisit Ernesto Laclau's and Jorge Alemán's critiques to the contemporary thinkers of the crowd, in order to sustain that the theory of populism does not necessarily have to dismiss the theoretical-political figure of the crowd. We will argue that the idea of a Common: Loneliness proposed by Alemán inserts itself in the Laclausian tradition, while habilitating a new conceptualization about the relation between subject and crowd. This point will allow a dialogue between psychoanalysis and deconstruction, sustaining that there is, between them, a negative ontology of the crowd, that separates them from those perspective that see in the crowd a positive immanent potency of bodies that naturally tend to revolt. The question that therefore structures this work is if it is possible to sustain the theoretical and political potentiality of the crowd from within the frame of a (political) negative ontology.    

The utopia of a society regulated by market mechanisms has been the subject of an intense and long debate. The core of the discussion is the conditions of realization of that utopia. Can the market work as a mechanism of social regulation without failing in the attempt? Is there a project of a market society that does not turn out into a defective and unwanted capitalism? Here is the question of neoliberalism, generally understood as the attempt to revive the old liberal utopia of the market society. This article argues that neoliberalism has a special utopia, which differs, in several aspects, from classical market society. For this, we will review the ideas and proposals of some economists identified with the German Ordoliberalism of the 1930s and 1940s. According to our hypothesis ­–which is partially taken from the Michel Foucault' analyses–, Ordoliberalism conceives a society where individuals do not act in isolation, but within the framework of small and medium-sized enterprises. More than the project of a market society, it is the utopia of an "enterprise society".

El siguiente texto propone una reflexión sobre la categorí­a de ví­ctima. Se hace cuestión de esta categorí­a en función de su espesor polí­tico, intentando trazar posibles zonas de enunciación, contextos de emergencia, entradas categoriales y usos. Se intenta trazar un itinerario que aborde la ví­ctima en cuanto categorí­a analí­tica y experiencia subjetiva, haciendo emerger el juego de memorias que allí­ se inscribe.    

Background. Factors such as lithology, geomorphology, climate and anthropogenic activities, cause ionic variability of surface, subsurface and underground water. The study of this variability allows to know its hydrochemical characteristics for its subsequent use. The interpretation of the ionic variability is carried out by mean of graphic methods, and multivariate statistics have been integrated into these analyses during the last few years. Objective. To perform a chemical analysis, to identify the factors affecting the water, and to prove that complementing the Piper diagram with a multivariate analysis helps to obtain a better interpretation of results. Methods. This work was carried out in the Oaxaca-Puebla hydrographic network, considering the complex relief and the heterogeneous lithological and climate conditions, especially in Oaxaca. A total of 90 samples were collected, three of which were taken in salt flats in Zapotitlán, Puebla and the rest of them in the state of Oaxaca. A Piper diagram was used for water classification, as well as the principal component analysis (PCA) to improve the interpretation of data. Results. The triangular diagram allowed to classify the waters of the hydrographic network into two large groups, calcium-magnesium bicarbonate, and calcium-magnesium sulfate, in addition to the separation of saline waters. The PCA, in addition to showing the same groups of waters, allowed to prove a higher concentration of sodium chloride at the highest point of the salt flat, as compared to the other two that were taken at this site. With the PCA, the water of the Copalita river basin could be classified as calcium-magnesium bicarbonate, coinciding with previous studies. Conclusions. By complementing a Piper diagram with a PCA, the interpretation of the ionic variability of the Oaxaca-Puebla hydrographic network improved.