COMMUNICATION, SUBJECT, CULTURE: JOYS AND SOLITUDE INAUGURAL LECTURE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 2002 OF THE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY, DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION

When you are invited to offer a conference like this, can not stop having a series of questions and considerations about the very fact of speaking to an audience informed and educated about the issues that the title might suggest exposure and how without falling into the usual cliches, without repeating the views and opinions set forth, if not obvious. I propose, then, establish, as a starting point, two things: the first is a promise: I will not talk about internet, a recurrent theme in his classes and activities. The second is a kind of contract between you and me: check out the obviousness of some views and question it, see it from behind, because that is where we might find the seams, some of the patches, if not outright nudity. I wonder if this is not precisely one of the first tasks of teaching in the University: to force what seems obvious to justify its obviousness, which is not easy.We can start messing things up a bit, looking like a very smooth and made ​​some surrealist poets to cut one by one the words of poems and writings, throw them into the air and read with amazement the order they fall to form a new verse, Perhaps more interesting and evocative than the first. Is not this somewhat random operation of new blends the fundamental operation of so many new discoveries and innovative ideas in the fields of science, culture, arts? Some of you know the thought of Pascal says: "Do not say that I am not proposing something new: the order in which the material presented is different."

Armando Argüello González. Escultor

Nació en Heredia, Costa Rica, el 17 de junio de 1960. De sus familiares heredó su inclinación hacia las artes, especialmente hacia la escultura, desde edad muy temprana. Su padre se convirtió en su maestro, ya que desde su niñez compartía largas horas a su lado mientras este hacía sus esculturas clásicas y religiosas en el taller; al mismo tiempo aprovechaba cualquier herramienta desocupada o algún restante de madera para imitar el trabajo de su padre.

Los cincuenta años de la Universidad de Costa Rica

IntroducciónA pesar de los últimos veinte años se ha experimentado un crecimiento en el sector universitario costarricense, tanto estatal como privado, la Universidad de Costa Rica es hoy la Decana de las Universidades del país, pues sigue siendo la más compleja de todas las instituciones por el número de carreras que ofrece, su sistema de estudios de posgrado, sus centros e institutos de investigación y su apoyo e impulso a las Artes...