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Julio Chávez Guerrero opens the door to his room and his mind and shares with us a ritual that accompanies him in his sleepless early mornings, when nocturnal forms stalk him and sleep becomes impossible to fall asleep. Here is the vault from which the artist takes the reserves of dreams and nightmares that give consistency to those ghosts that today inhabit the pages of the magazine, silent inhabitants that from a distance return their gaze to whoever looks at them, as they do with him, their creator, whom they contemplate at exactly 3:40 a.m., in that gap in which the night is less and less night, but it is still far from dawn.

The Greek civilization has always been a reference when talking about the origins of education, since it was considered essential in the conformation of its socioeconomic system. The appropriation of the knowledge of said culture, the adoption of customs, religion and the determination of the ideal citizen were the result of an educational system based on philoso­phy and virtue, which was born with the appropriation of the word and the interaction with the civilizations that surrounded it, and developed to the definition of a ruling class with a supe­rior education to the rest of society: the areté. Much of the Homeric and Socratic philosophy can be found in contemporary educational models, however, the current socioeconomic and politi­cal context has reversed the classical aspirations, the virtue and the ideal that is now pursued is economic success, at the expense of values and civility.

It seeks to identify areas of contact between the works of Ramón Illán Bacca and Juan Cárdenas from a critical-theoretical proposal about the paths traced by the writing on the reverse in recent Colombian literature. The hypothesis is that the works of these two writers, particularly the novels Deborah Kruel (1990) and Elástico de sombra (2019), coincide in the emergence of technical procedures linked to unstitched thinking —a term proposed by Severo Sarduy— as the putting into action of a dynamic imaginary that activates a process of uprising of the image, with which the writing on the reverse is generated, a mechanism explained by the philosopher Bruno Mazzoldi.

Twenty-three years and two months is a realistic tale, close to the so-called "dirty realism" from North America. In it, a reunion is recounted between friends from adolescence, now touched by age and distance, and how they try to resolve those differences that separated them when they were young, while dealing with the day-to-day life and the marital problems they find themselves in.

Through an approach to intellectual history, the emergence of the figure of intellectuals in France with the Dreyfus case is analyzed, in order to understand the positions of Jean-Paul Sartre, an outstanding thinker in the 20th century and a key piece of the Philosophy from the postwar period to the late 1960s. Next, the works The Treason of the Intellectuals (Julien Benda, 1927) and The Opium of the Intellectuals (Aron Raymond, 1955) are studied, which allows us to understand why these analyzes and critical positions continue to be valid in the 21st century. about the political passions of enlightened circles.    

Through a reading of the novel Amuleto (1999), the centrality acquired by spaces in Roberto Bolaño’s narrative as chronotopes of trauma and barbarism linked to some historical events of the Latin American past, such as the military occupation of the University National Autonomous Government of Mexico (UNAM) and the Tlatelolco massacre. It is argued that the relevance of the places is based on an allegorical function that, in addition to the circumstantial utility, penetrates the structure of the work and contributes to a literary configuration of the regional historical memory. Based on the theorizations of Mijaíl Bajtín and Gaston Bachelard on the notions of ‘chronotope’ and ‘literary space’, respectively, the analysis delves into the contest of two meanings that Bolañian writing assigns to spaces: the representation of what is closed as favorable to reflexive liberation, and of the open and natural as a symbol of state violence and barbarism.

The role of emotions linked to art in a neighborhood of the city of La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) after a natural disaster is analyzed. There, in April 2013, a great flood interrupted the normal course of life and produced a series of citizen responses, including artistic ones. Specifically, the Parque Castelli Neighborhood Assembly (AVPC) and its murals in public space are analyzed. Through the analysis of the emotional dimension linked to visuality and resilience, on the one hand, a group wascreated and strengthened where art covered to expose demands, process the trauma experienced and as a form of collective identification. On the other hand, it reinforced the collective defense and the attachment to the place, that is, to the neighborhoodas a space of belonging. The work methodology is qualitative and transdisciplinary, based on case studies, interviews and iconographic analysis.

A review is made of some poems by the Mexican writer Margarita Paz Paredes, published in the 1970s of the 20th century. The concepts of  'political poetry', 'theme poetry' social' and 'conversational poetry' in order to establish a correspondence with the proposal of the author, who guides her aesthetics towards a critical dialogue and close to the reader. Paz Paredes shows her defense of a left-wing ideology and even his sympathy for the socialist and communist tendencies of the last century. His texts allow us to make a subjective record of a troubled era; constitute testimonies of struggle and awareness through the word in a period of great political effervescence at national and international level.

The research is oriented towards the production of knowledge and is based on legal and ethical principles that ensure the study process and its relationship with the subjects analyzed. For centuries, the mechanistic ideology affirmed that everything can be explained from experimentation, through trial-error (quantitative research); Subsequently, the philosophy of science arose that said methodology was impossible to predict social phenomena, and the qualitative approach arose. In this context, legal and ethical principles were created to protect the dignity of the study subjects. Deontology, as an ethical discipline, reflects on the duty to be and the urgency to create norms with their respective sanctions to ensure the common good. Our objective is to analyze the contributions of qualitative research for the understanding of the fundamental principles of the person in the constitutions of Ecuador and Peru, through the hermeneutic and analytical methods, in both contexts.

En Amoremas, Erick Ramos presenta un poemario en el cual el sujeto lírico expresa su amor de forma natural y sencilla, en él encontramos tanto la cotidianidad como la mayor de las excepciones que surgen en el ámbito amoroso. Cada texto de esta compilación poética destaca por su originalidad en la combinación de metáforas, por la dulzura con la que se describe al objeto del deseo, al mismo tiempo que evoca experiencias amorosas en los lectores, quienes se identificarán fácilmente.