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After a brief reflection on the characteristics of the historiography of psychoanalysis in recent decades, this article aims to show certain dilemmas and/or debates that cross the psychoanalytic field both in the region and in the contemporary world. To this end, the focus will be placed on the campaign organized by Nina Krajnik in favor of the psychoanalytic clinic and against the theoretical psychoanalysis of Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupan?i? and Mladen Dolar. It is of particular interest to examine how Krajnik’s arguments are embedded in a broader project aiming both at an expansion of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) headed by Jacques- Alain Miller, and at obtaining a monopoly over psychoanalytic theory and its political effects. It will be shown that it is possible to find the first manifestations of this process in Latin America even before the WAP project. In this sense, based on the productions of Dolar, Zupancic and Žižek, some current contributions of the Slovenian school will be shown, which are taken up here in the light of the Latin American context, seeking to illuminate the theoretical, institutional, political, ideological and cultural implications of the domination and hegemony of the Millerian current in the psychoanalytic field. This logic of power, as will be seen, has not prevented the emergence and development of some radical and irreverent approaches which, nevertheless, seem to have failed: in some Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Millerian psychoanalysis managed to impose itself even more intensely than in France itself. This poses a challenge and a dilemma worthy of consideration and which must be taken up.

This paper discusses the emergence of a new political governmentality, “cyberalism” or, in other words, “cyberliberalism”, associated with the hegemony of practices that fetishize and idealize technological development and, at the same time, develop new ways of domination and desiring subjection of the subjects. For this, we will study its origin both in its social practices and in its explicit discourses, from the Californian counterculture of the last century to the current economic hegemony of Silicon Valley. Later, we will argue why there is a discontinuity between cyberal governmentality and neoliberal governmentality, as well as a difference between that concept and the notions of technoliberalism and algorithmic governmentality. Thus, a theoretical framework will emerge, in a kind of critical genealogy of value, that sheds light on contemporary technological dynamics (related to artificial intelligence, algorithms, big data, etc.) where the political issue of algorithmic control of subjectivities is connects with the economic issue of valorization of capitalist value.

This work explores the relationship between philosophy and politics from two thresholds. The first of them recovers the thought of Gloria Anzaldúa to suggest that, between the two, writing plays a double role: on the one hand, as a political act of social transformation, but also as an epistemological shift of the subjectivity and rewriting of reality from an ontology-epistemology of radical interconnection. The second thres hold refers to a theoretical conception of care with authors such as Joan Tronto, Laura Pautassi, and Nadya Araujo Guimarães to establish how this perspective implies rethinking politics that addresses intersubjectivity. From the contrast of both approaches, we propose that there is a constant dialogue between politics and philosophy, and the possibility of making visible the vulnerability and interconnection of the human cond

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In 2022 the International seminar on design research was organized by the Design Research and Innovation Group of the University of La Laguna, thanks to the collaboration of the University of La Laguna and funding from the Government of the Canary Islands, Cabildo de Tenerife and City Council of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Under the title «Design Research Policies in Ibero-America», the question of the different strategies and public policy actions to address and promote design as a rigorous scientific discipline was addressed. The seminar program established a space for the meeting of the IberoAmerican Design Research Network (RIDID) in order to share the experiences and research advances generated within the framework of the international project «Visions of academic research in design in Ibero-America». This edition had Mexico as the guest country and it was possible to listen to the lectures made by Óscar Salinas (PhD), Professor Aura Cruz and Professor Iroel Heredia, all of them from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Their reflections and analysis, presented below, constitute a documentation of what happened and useful and relevant information on the state of design research policies in Mexico in particular, and in Latin America in general.

Esta publicación editada por Aaron D. Knochel (The Pennsylvania State University, Estados Unidos) y Osamu Sahara (Tokushima University, Japón) surge por una inquietud en conocer cuáles son las iniciativas actuales que trabajan con y desde las artes mediáticas o también media arts, en su denominación anglosajona.

Este ensayo hace un recorrido histórico de la evolución de la bibliotecología en Costa Rica, a partir de los antecedentes que tiene la educación en el país desde el período colonial, hasta que se llegan a instaurar las primeras bibliotecas. Se mencionan los principales acontecimientos asociados con el desarrollo de las bibliotecas en el siglo XIX, lo cual supuso un gran avance específicamente en la conformación de bibliotecas de carácter público. También se hace un recuento de los hechos más sobresalientes que influyeron en la profesionalización de la bibliotecología en el siglo XX. Además, se señala el accionar de personas destacadas en el área y se presenta el contexto actual de los centros de educación superior encargados de impartir la carrera, esto con el fin de detallar los principales retos que afronta la disciplina en el siglo XXI.

Born on the island of Madeira around 1515, Baltasar Dias is an author that historians of Portuguese literature and culture extol as one of the greatest representatives of Portuguese popular theater and cordel literature in the 16th century. But there are almost no studies on this poet and playwright, who, refusing to be plagiarized by unscrupulous booksellers, obtained from King João III a license to print his own pamphlets. I propose to revisit what is known about the life of this author and clarify some aspects of his theatrical production. Based on his devotional pieces Auto do Nascimento, Auto de Santo Aleixo, and Auto de Santa Catarina, I present in this article some advances in the study of both the dramatic aesthetic of Baltasar Dias and the place that this “poor man” occupies in literary and cultural history.

A two-leaves poetic chapbook, printed in 1556, includes an Eucharistic poem written in Catalan by Joan Timoneda, with the following opening lines: «En la cena consagrada / fon posat aquest sant pa». This poem develops the allegory of the mystical mill and remained in the oral tradition through a song entitled La cena, documented in the 19th and 20th centuries: not only there have been recorded several oral versions, some of them with musical notation, but at least two 19th-century broadsheets are known. This paper focuses especially on a broadsheet edition with La cena on one side and four other texts on the other side, depending on the copy taken into consideration. This fact indicates that this edition, with its different publishing solutions, was composed by printing La cena on the blank side of different broadsides. It would be a case of reusing stocks not previously sold by the printer. Moreover, the analyzed data agree with the conclusion that this edition is not prior to 1841. Another edition of La cena was printed in Barcelona by Miquel Borràs, probably in 1845.