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This article examines the transhumanist movement, focusing particularly on its anti-aging aspect and its ethical, ecological, and social implications. The objective of the research is to analyze how the pursuit of life extension and the overcoming of human biological limitations, promoted by anti-aging transhumanism, reinforces an anthropocentric and capitalist vision that can lead to ecocide. A critical analysis of transhumanist discourses is conducted, highlighting how their promotion of life extension and technological enhancement perpetuates human supremacy over nature. The main findings reveal that anti-aging transhumanism is driven by a capitalist ideology that views the natural environment as an unlimited resource for human exploitation. The research is organized by reviewing the different branches of transhumanism, including libertarian, democratic, and extropian transhumanism, and comparing cultural and technoscientific approaches. The fundamental conclusion of the study is that the anti-aging transhumanist approach, by emphasizing the prolongation of human life without considering ecological interdependencies, can have severe consequences for the environment. It underscores the need to adopt more inclusive and balanced perspectives that recognize the importance of maintaining a balance between technological advances and the conservation of the natural environment, proposing a rethinking of current narratives to avoid ecocide and promote sustainable coexistence with other living beings and the ecosystem.

This paper takes as a starting point the essay entitled Noli me legere (2007) by the Spanish philosopher and art critic José Luis Brea. Taking this piece of work as the main reference, the paper explores, from an argumentative stance, the logic of the parergon within deconstruction, which tempts this methodology to stay outside the painting and frame the image inside a logocentric representation without touching its interior, thus unabling the painting to speak its truth in its own language. From a procedural point of view, the paper follows the path laid out by Brea, which consists of a critical review of Derridian deconstruction that is requested to abadon the metaphysics of presence in the visual realm, as well as to deconstruct itself from the inside. The paper develops these objectives by means of expanding the “Noli me legere” paradigm, coined by Brea, also tracing its implications through the “Noli me tangere” metaphor, investigated by Jean-Luc Nancy. Tactility within the pictorial representation of the encounter between the Risen Christ and Mary Magdalene becomes the central theme of the paper and the basement of its theoretic contribution, which proposes a haptic approach to images in order to fulfill the command “Do not read me!”. The paper concludes this alternative throughout a case study taken from Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998).

Under the premise that the notion of poetic reason, a distinctive contribution of the philosopher María Zambrano, would not be possible without a language perspective, we approach the reading of three texts separated in time: “Hacia un saber sobre el alma”, from 1934 , “La metáfora del corazón”, from 1944 and, with the same name, but with expanded content, “La metáfora del corazón”, from 1965. The objective is to trace the type of cognitive function of the essential images of her poetics incorporated in the essay as a theoretical format; after developing a methodological device based on metaphor, the author formulates two ideas of philosophical value, namely, soul and heart, as principles of knowledge. Such notions exceed the conceptualizing pretension of philosophy and approach a knowledge of revelation. On both, she lays the foundations of a structure that challenges the monolithic format of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century rationalism, expanding the horizon of what is accepted as knowledge. In the analysis we consider the value of the essay with a philosophical nature, and the germinal character of the chosen texts, whose postulates radiate throughout the author's entire production. The conclusion vindicates the value of metaphor for the integral expression of thought.

To consider oneself an individual or a subject and to live one's life in a personal way is only one way of being, among other possible ways of being. The definition of what is human has been constituted through the separation of different spheres -ontological, political, epistemological- which ensure the hierarchy of the human being within the species and its primacy with respect to other living beings and things. We will address two topics from which to question these spheres. On the one hand, we seek to understand the notion of life stripped of individuality by introducing concepts such as symbiosis, sympoiesis and metamorphosis. On the other hand, we will address the notion of uncertainty, which not only puts the subject-object relation into crisis, but also allows us to arrive at a relational ontology, which starts with the idea that there is no prior existence of individual objects, but that their constitution takes place within the framework of the relational or nodal character of objects. Both developments are possible by considering perspectivism as a method of distancing ourselves from the metaphysical tradition and the binary logic that structures our thinking in our understanding of reality and the material. However, we seek to address the erasures of the human in a new cartography of the living, in which the world is not understood as a world full of objects, but as a world of relations.

Mexico provided weapons and food to the Republican government, helped it circumvent the international embargo and diplomatically supported its cause in different forums, especially in the League of Nations. Traditionally, it has been considered that the intervention of the Cardenista government in the Spanish Civil War responded to reasons of political-ideological solidarity with its only foreign ally. The article suggests that, beyond these reasons, Mexican policy towards the Spanish conflict responded to the foreign objectives of the Cardenista regime and the strategies used to achieve them in an increasingly turbulent international scenario. In the background, the article recapitulates the contributions of specialized literature, sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, to analyze their discrepancies and determine the true scope of Mexican participation in the Spanish War.

This article attempts to explain the ontological elements, both possibly revolutionary and posthuman, of Manuel De Landa’s philosophical program. Initially, it reviews the influence of the ontology of difference in Gilles Deleuze, emphasizing the notions of multiplicity and virtuality. Next, it analyzes De Landa’s theory of assemblages as an alternative to theories of organic totalities. After that, it interrogates the properly posthuman sense of revolutionary assemblages. Finally, it offers a conclusion in which it establishes the posthuman affinities of Deleuze’s philosophy of difference with De Landa’s theory of assemblage.

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This work addresses the study of everyday practices in relation to the lithic production systems of the archaeological site Piedra Negra 2 (PIN2) in the Laguna Blanca region, Catamarca province, Argentina. The material analyzed comes from two rooms of the site, one of them interpreted as a kitchen (RA) and the other as a small semi-roofed yard (R6). Based on the techno-morphological and morphological-functional analyses of the lithic artifacts at a macroscopic level, it was possible to determine the stages of production and possible uses (primary functions) of the instruments, as well as the various raw materials that have been used forlithic manufacturing at the site.

This paper synthesizes approaches concerning identities and experiences of alterity lived by the indigenous communities settled in the central area of Quebrada de Humahuaca (Jujuy, Argentina) before (900 - 1400 AD) and after the arrival of the Inca expansion (1400 - 1536 AD). Departing from the bibliographical analysis of works that dealt with primary written sources, archaeological evidence hailing from four sites in the region will be considered. Available historic information focuses on the cases of Tilcara and Purmamarca; yet, the sum of ethnohistoric and archaeological sources established local communities reacted differently to the change process. Finally, this paper reflects and discusses the idiosyncrasies of the societies that inhabited the Quebrada de Humahuaca, the contributions of pottery and other material remains.

Taking a socio-historical approach is essential to analyze the narratives on indigenous populations, their displacements and their current presence in the cities. In the case of the Mapuche Kalfulafken community in the city of Carhué, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the stories about the military campaigns that invisibilized their presence, took their lands, dispossessed their families and displaced them to less productive lands stand out. In Carhué, the community still tries to refute narratives and representations from those historical periods. Throughout these pages we will try to see the impact that such processes had on the trajectories of the Mapuche families that today make up the community and which are the strategies to make their presence visible and to assert their rights. This article is grounded in Social Anthropology and is based on the field work carried out since 2018 in the mentioned locality.