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This research aims at discussing a possible reading of Gustav Klimt’s picture Jurisprudenz, from a juridical perspective, in order to explain its potential of meaning regarding the relation between law, sovereign violence and public sphere in peripheral countries like Brazil. In order to do so, this paper is based on three analytical aspects, which are deeply interconnected: The Renaissance revival of pagan Antiquity, Freud’s psychoanalysis, and the ambivalent relationship between Law and sovereign violence. Klimt articulates these three dimensions through a) elements of Greek mythology; b) in a Freudian dream-like atmosphere; c) placing the observer in the political role of one of its main characters. Methodologically, this research identifies the references of Klimt at his lifetime and proposes a dialog with the previous interpretations and reflections made by Schorske, Minkkinen, Rodriguez and Manderson, among other authors that dedicated themselves to study the Jurisprudenz of Klimt. Jurisprudenz presents a visual narrative that allows one to understand the rupture of the cogito self by the desire self (Freud), the exception/sovereign violence of Law (Schmitt, Benjamin, Agamben), and the creative construction of the Law by democratic participation in new forms of public sphere (Habermas).

This is an essay on the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1898), a romantic work that poetically incorporates the first environmental program that literature has ever offered. Therefore, with the help of Coleridge’s spiritual world and his meta-fictional narratives, this research aims at penetrating the core of crimes against the environment. Today, increasing legal complexity entwines the environment in a dense normative network that may prevent a complete understanding of the global losses experienced in cases of eco-victimization and the abuses that are at play at such times. Under these circumstances, a review of Coleridge’s impressive masterpiece is proposed, applying an emerging narrative method within the framework of Narrative Victimology, a discipline that deals with the cultural account of victimization and its consequences.

This article is based on the philosophical thought of M. Bakhtin. It thus elaborates the dimensions of the philosophy of the ethical responsible act, and the construct of polyphony, the latter extracted by the author from the works by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It also aims at questioning possible approaches of the Law with the Bakhtinian literary studies and language philosophy, highlighting the perspective of the event and its aesthetical objectification. Hence, it proposes to establish an initial dialogue that can contribute to the overcoming of both subjectivist and objectivist postures in the juridical interpretation, which are still dominant in the traditional imaginary and the daily practice of Law in Brazil.

This paper analyzes, in a punctual and problematic way, the famous article by Jacques Derrida titled This Strange Institution Called Literature, with aims of finding possible implications for law and legal thinking. Based on Derrida’s ideas, we attempt to map the fundamental aspects of the Law and Literature approach, as well as its meaning regarding philosophy. By studying Derrida, however, we do not hinder the dialogue with other thinkers, who may have influenced him as well as opened up the possibility for disagreeing in substantial matters, such as the supposed possibility of literature to “say everything”. Thus, the non-institutionality of literature and its intrinsic democratic power are hereby explored as fundamental elements to see this approach as more than casual. With its invaluable capacity of raising questions, literature is a powerful rival to totalitarian regimes and a strong democracy fosterer. Furthermore, with the aesthetic pleasure granted by its narratives, literature also has a deconstruction trait, and it shields us against the ever-present risks of decisionism.

This article aims at critically analyzing the concept of eligibility for refugee status in Brazilian law, by approaching administrative processes of refugee status pleas, as well as the legal defense given to applicants for refugee status in the legal system. Based on the central aim of this article, we scrutinize how the decision-making mechanisms work, especially   considering the collective decision-making spaces and the confidential aspect of these lawsuits under the allegation of protecting the interested parts. This critical analysis is thought of as a reflection on the possible existence of connections between present practices and policies regarding the eligibility for refugee status in Brazil and the dystopia of absurdity presented in the narrative by Kafka about bureaucracy in lawsuits and the legal defense system.

The purpose of this paper is to approach literature as a human right, by analyzing its capability of humanizing the individual and emancipating the subjects, which allows the human being to fully exist. To do so, the analysis is made from both literature’s scientific and artistic production, especially based on the research by Antonio Candido, in order to assess to what extent can literature influence the individuals. Firstly, we approach the personal aspect, due to literature’s humanizing character; Secondly, the psychological aspect, analyzing the role literature plays in the sublimation of drives, and, lastly, the social aspect, seen in its emancipatory potentiality. Finally, we develop the relation between the right to literature, the right to education and the right to culture.  Thus, we seek to emphasize the importance of literature for people to live worthily and completely, precisely because it grants to the human being some of their humanity, which makes undeniable that literature is a human right.

En las últimas décadas, el campo de las ciencias sociales y humanas exhibe un renovado interés por las imágenes y el lugar de importancia que adquieren en distintos ámbitos de la vida social. Al respecto de la esfera de la política, distintos trabajos destacan el debilitamiento de los lazos partidarios y la creciente personalización de la política, cuyo corolario es un comportamiento electoral orientado cada vez más por la «imagen» de los candidatos y no por las reivindicaciones contenidas en un programa o por la adscripción a una tradición partidaria de pertenencia. Pero a pesar del lugar central en el que se coloca a la visualidad de los candidatos, es poca la atención que se dedica a comprender su incidencia en la constitución de las adhesiones a líderes, movimientos y consignas en el campo político. El presente trabajo se propone reflexionar acerca de dos tópicos íntimamente relacionados con este problema: el papel que la visualidad desempeña en la legitimación de los lazos políticos y los efectos simbólicos de la imagen de los candidatos. Para ello se recuperan y articularán, en particular, los aportes de Barthes (2014) y Bourdieu (2013), con el fin de desnaturalizar sentidos sociales que se presentan como evidentes –semioclastia– y comprender la afinidad entre esquemas perceptivos y valorativos –estética disposicionalista– en las adhesiones políticas. Esta argumentación será acompañada por un breve análisis de tres figuras pertenecientes a la coalición Juntos por el Cambio, centrales en las elecciones de 2019: Mauricio Macri,  Eugenia Vidal y Miguel Ángel Pichetto.

Desde el año 2015, a pedido de la dirección de la carrera de Diseño Gráfico y Comunicación Visual, pusimos en marcha un proyecto de acompañamiento pedagógico, destinado a revisar algunos aspectos del quehacer docente, con el objetivo de atender necesidades específicas de la carrera y buscar así mejoras en la calidad académica. A partir de los aspectos relevados, comenzamos a trabajar sobre la organización metodológica de las clases, la evaluación y las instancias de corrección en taller, la lectura de materiales bibliográficos y el nivel motivacional de los alumnos. La tarea fue realizada a través de observaciones de clases y momentos de devolución que nos permitieron relevar información, detectar necesidades y generar un rico espacio de intercambio con los docentes para construir juntos estrategias tendientes a dar respuestas a las problemáticas que se nos planteaban. La continuidad de este acompañamiento a lo largo de varios cuatrimestres permitió no solo implementar las estrategias planificadas, sino también realizar un seguimiento continuo de la tarea del docente y una evaluación tanto del proceso así como de los resultados obtenidos. Si bien los cambios logrados a lo largo de estos dos años de trabajo fueron graduales y paulatinos, en muchos casos han sido efectivos y con excelentes resultados. 

La proliferación de tecnologías para la comunicación de masas ha dejado al serhumano inmerso en un mundo de pluralidad mediática, que ha sido aprovechada porcreativos de cada industria para ofrecer contenidos vinculados entre cada uno de losmedios de comunicación generando historias conocidas como Narrativas Transmedia.A partir de huecos estratégicos e imágenes exóticas, estos tipos de relato se hanposicionado en la mente del público creando un fenómeno cultural con implicacioneslúdicas partiendo de contenidos ficticios a actitudes cotidianas  que van de la ficción a objetos de consumo queextienden la experiencia mediática al mundo real.

La tecnología digital es el nuevo paradigma que permite el desarrollo  del lenguaje en la técnica de la estereoscopia en 3D. Esta tecnología constituyemétodos, instrumentos y herramientas específicas aplicados a la producción de contenidos audiovisuales. Una nueva especialidad surge en el marco de la resolución de la crisis vivida en la tecnología analógica. Este estudioutiliza la teoría del paradigma de Kuhn para interpretar este acontecimiento. Interpreta las anomalías detectadas en la era analógica, la crisis, el cambio de paradigma, el surgimiento de nuevas especialidades dentro de la disciplina luego de la crisis.