La Voluntad. Una historia de la militancia revolucionaria en la Argentina, de Eduardo Anguita y Martín Caparrós : ¿un libro escrito para vender?

Entre marzo de 1997 y marzo de 1998 se publicó la trilogía La Voluntad. Una historia de la militancia revolucionaria en la Argentina, de Eduardo Anguita y Martín Caparrós. La obra volvió a reeditarse corregida y aumentada en el mes de febrero del año 2006, esta vez por la editorial Booket (sello de bolsillo del Grupo Planeta), en cinco tomos y con un tiraje de 4000 ejemplares. En el presente trabajo nos ocuparemos de dar cuenta brevemente de ambos contextos de publicación, diferentes en lo que hace al desarrollo del llamado "trabajo de la memoria" (Jelin 2002) en la Argentina. Por otra parte, dado que algunos cientistas sociales reaccionaron de forma hostil a La Voluntad, llegando a acusar a sus autores de oportunismo y afán de lucro (en otras palabras: de "querer vender" por sobre la mera indagación crítica de nuestro pasado reciente), se deberá poner en contrapunto esta recepción erudita negativa con la muy favorable acogida por parte del público lector no especializado, reflejada en las cifras de venta. A los fines de indagar estas reacciones divergentes, se analizarán tres rasgos presentes en la textualidad de La Voluntad: su carácter de "inventario de época" (mediante el cual sus autores pretendieron establecer una filiación con la "novela imposible" que Rodolfo Walsh soñó, planificó y esbozó a lo largo de toda su vida), y lo que hemos dado en llamar la "estetización de la política" y el "aplanamiento conceptual". Por último, se dará cuenta de algunas líneas de ruptura y continuidad entre La Voluntad y el resto de la obra narrativa ficcional de Eduardo Anguita y Martín Caparrós

PSV records from Tangra Yumco and Taro Co (Tibetan Plateau)

Magnetostratigraphy has been serving as a valuable tool for dating and confirming chronologies of lacustrine sediments in many parts of the world. Suitable paleomagnetic records on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and adjacent areas are, however, extremely scarce. Here, we derive paleomagnetic records from independently radiocarbon-dated sediments from two lakes separated by 250 km on the southern central TP, Tangra Yumco and Taro Co. Studied through alternating field demagnetization of u-channel samples, characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) directions document similar inclination patterns in multiple sediment cores for the past 4000 years. Comparisons to an existing record from Nam Co, a lake 350 km east of Tangra Yumco, a varve-dated record from the Makran Accretionary Wedge, records from Lakes Issyk-Kul and Baikal, and a stack record from East Asia reveal many similarities in inclination. This regional similarity demonstrates the high potential of inclination to compare records over the Tibetan Plateau and eventually date other Tibetan records stratigraphically. PSV similarities over such a large area (>3000 km) suggest a large-scale core dynamic origin rather than small scale processes like drift of the non-dipole field often associated with PSV records.

Physiography of the Ampère Seamount in the Horseshoe Seamount chain off Gibraltar

The Ampère Seamount, 600 km west of Gibraltar, is one of nine inactive volcanoes along a bent chain, the so called Horseshoe Seamounts. All of them ascend from an abyssal plain of 4000 to 4800 m depth up to a few hundred meters below the sea surface, except two, which nearly reach the surface: the Ampère massif on the southern flank of the group and the summit of the Gorringe bank in the north. The horseshoe, serrated like a crown, opens towards Gibraltar and stands in the way of its outflow. These seamounts are part of the Azores-Gibraltar structure, which marks the boundary between two major tectonic plates: the Eurasian and the African plate. The submarine volcanism which formed the Horseshoe Seamounts belongs to the sea floor spread area of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The maximum activity was between 17 and 10 Million years ago and terminated thereafter. The volcanoes consist of basalts and tuffs. Most of their flanks and the abyssal plain around are covered by sediments of micro-organic origin. These sediments, in particular their partial absence on the upper flanks are a circumstantial proof and a kind of diary of the initial rise and subsequent subsidence of about 6oo m of these seamounts. The horizons of erosion where the basalt substrate is laid bare indicate the rise above sea level in the past. Since the Ampère summit is 60 m deep today, this volcano must have been an island 500 m high. The stratification of the sediments covering the surrounding abyssal plain reveals discrete events of downslope suspension flows, called turbidites, separated by tens of thousands of years and perhaps induced by changes in climate conditions. The Ampère sea mount of 4800 m height and a base diameter of 50 km exceeds the size of the Mont Blanc massif. Its southern and eastern flanks are steep with basalts cropping out, in parts with nearly vertical walls of some hundred meters. The west and north sides consist of terraces and plateaus covered with sediments at 140 m, 400 m, 2000 m, and 3500 m. The Horseshoe Seamount area is also remarkable as a kind of disturbed crossing of three major oceanic flow systems at different depths and directions with forced upwelling and partial mixing of the water masses. Most prominent is the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) with its higher temperature and salinity between 900 to 1500 m depth. It enters the horseshoe unimpaired from the open eastern side but penetrates the seamount chain through its valleys on the west, thereafter diverging and crossing the entire Atlantic Ocean. Below the MOW is the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) between 2000 m to 3000 m depth flowing southward and finally there is the Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) flowing northward below the two other systems.

Expresiones políticas y movilización popular en los pueblos de la campañade Buenos Aires : La Guardia de Luján y el Sitio de Lagos (1852-1854)

En este artículo se abordará la problemática transición política producida en la provincia de Buenos Aires luego de la batalla de Caseros en febrero de 1852 y el impacto que generó en la campaña. Partimos del siguiente argumento: la intervención política de los habitantes rurales y el grado de dependencia/independencia de sus reclamos se explica en gran medida a través del entramado de relaciones de poder (complejo y cambiante) que se construyó en cada pueblo. En primera instancia, la atención estará puesta en las diferentes expresiones políticas que se manifestaron en el vecindario de la Guardia de Luján durante el rosismo y las repercusiones del día después. Luego, se estudiará el pronunciamiento del General Hilario Lagos del 1º de diciembre de 1852 y la participación del vecindario. Por último, se reseñaran las repercusiones locales producto del derrocamiento de Juan Manuel de Rosas

La Voluntad. Una historia de la militancia revolucionaria en la Argentina, de Eduardo Anguita y Martín Caparrós : ¿un libro escrito para vender?

Entre marzo de 1997 y marzo de 1998 se publicó la trilogía La Voluntad. Una historia de la militancia revolucionaria en la Argentina, de Eduardo Anguita y Martín Caparrós. La obra volvió a reeditarse corregida y aumentada en el mes de febrero del año 2006, esta vez por la editorial Booket (sello de bolsillo del Grupo Planeta), en cinco tomos y con un tiraje de 4000 ejemplares. En el presente trabajo nos ocuparemos de dar cuenta brevemente de ambos contextos de publicación, diferentes en lo que hace al desarrollo del llamado "trabajo de la memoria" (Jelin 2002) en la Argentina. Por otra parte, dado que algunos cientistas sociales reaccionaron de forma hostil a La Voluntad, llegando a acusar a sus autores de oportunismo y afán de lucro (en otras palabras: de "querer vender" por sobre la mera indagación crítica de nuestro pasado reciente), se deberá poner en contrapunto esta recepción erudita negativa con la muy favorable acogida por parte del público lector no especializado, reflejada en las cifras de venta. A los fines de indagar estas reacciones divergentes, se analizarán tres rasgos presentes en la textualidad de La Voluntad: su carácter de "inventario de época" (mediante el cual sus autores pretendieron establecer una filiación con la "novela imposible" que Rodolfo Walsh soñó, planificó y esbozó a lo largo de toda su vida), y lo que hemos dado en llamar la "estetización de la política" y el "aplanamiento conceptual". Por último, se dará cuenta de algunas líneas de ruptura y continuidad entre La Voluntad y el resto de la obra narrativa ficcional de Eduardo Anguita y Martín Caparrós

¿Fue Ovidio un poeta latino de la Edad de Plata?

Este artículo busca establecer cómo las características más sobresalientes de las Metamorfosis de Ovidio, consideradas por muchos estudiosos como el modelo por excelencia de los poetas latinos del siglo I d.C. no resultan tan influyentes en la praxis poética de los autores neronianos y flavianos. Aun considerando los numerosos paralelismos formales y estilísticos existentes en estos autores, tal como el uso de la paradoja, la sobreexplicitación visual y la acumulación de detalles, resulta claro que el propósito y el uso de los diferentes topoi literarios que estos poetas hacen son completamente distintos. Un análisis de los motivos de la nekya y la tempestad en Ovidio, Lucano, Silio Itálico, Valerio Flaco y Estacio muestra cuánto más a menudo los poetas latinos del siglo I d.C. recurren a la obra de Virgilio que a la de Ovidio

Changes in bottom water corrosiveness and carbonate ion concentrations in the sub-Antarctic Atlantic during the last glacial period

The glacial climate system transitioned rapidly between cold (stadial) and warm (interstadial) conditions in the Northern Hemisphere. This variability, referred to as Dansgaard-Oeschger variability, is widely believed to arise from perturbations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Evidence for such changes during the longer Heinrich stadials has been identified, but direct evidence for overturning circulation changes during Dansgaard-Oeschger events has proven elusive. Here we reconstruct bottom water [CO3]2- variability from B/Ca ratios of benthic foraminifera and indicators of sedimentary dissolution, and use these reconstructions to infer the flow of northern-sourced deep water to the deep central sub-Antarctic Atlantic Ocean. We find that nearly every Dansgaard-Oeschger interstadial is accompanied by a rapid incursion of North Atlantic Deep Water into the deep South Atlantic. Based on these results and transient climate model simulations, we conclude that North Atlantic stadial-interstadial climate variability was associated with significant Atlantic overturning circulation changes that were rapidly transmitted across the Atlantic. However, by demonstrating the persistent role of Atlantic overturning circulation changes in past abrupt climate variability, our reconstructions of carbonate chemistry further indicate that the carbon cycle response to abrupt climate change was not a simple function of North Atlantic overturning.

Water chemistry and sediment age of lake Terrasovoje, Amery Oasis, East Antarctica

The late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of the southern Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, has been reconstructed using diatom assemblages from two long, well-dated sediment cores taken in two marine bays. The diatom assemblage of the lowest sediment layers suggests a warm climate with mostly open water conditions during the late Pleistocene. During the following glacial, the Windmill Islands were covered by grounded ice preventing any in situ bioproductivity. Following deglaciation, a sapropel with a well-preserved diatom assemblage was deposited from ~10?500 cal yr BP. Between ~10?500 and ~4000 cal yr BP, total organic carbon (Corg) and total diatom valve concentrations as well as the diatom species composition suggest relatively cool summer temperatures. Hydrological conditions in coastal bays were characterised by combined winter sea-ice and open water conditions. This extensive period of glacial retreat was followed by the Holocene optimum (~4000 to ~1000 cal yr BP), which occurred later in the southern Windmill Islands than in most other Antarctic coastal regions. Diatom assemblages in this period suggest ice-free conditions and meltwater-stratified waters in the marine bays during summer, which is also reflected in high proportions of freshwater diatoms in the sediments. The diatom assemblage in the upper sediments of both cores indicates Neoglacial cooling from ~1000 cal yr BP, which again led to seasonally persistent sea-ice on the bays. The Holocene optimum and cooling trends in the Windmill Islands did not occur contemporaneously with other Antarctic coastal regions, showing that the here presented record reflects partly local environmental conditions rather than global climatic trends.

Water chemistry, sediment radiocarbon age and diatom zonation at Peterson Inlet and Browning Bay, Antarctica

The late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of the southern Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, has been reconstructed using diatom assemblages from two long, well-dated sediment cores taken in two marine bays. The diatom assemblage of the lowest sediment layers suggests a warm climate with mostly open water conditions during the late Pleistocene. During the following glacial, the Windmill Islands were covered by grounded ice preventing any in situ bioproductivity. Following deglaciation, a sapropel with a well-preserved diatom assemblage was deposited from ~10500 cal yr BP. Between ~10500 and ~4000 cal yr BP, total organic carbon (Corg) and total diatom valve concentrations as well as the diatom species composition suggest relatively cool summer temperatures. Hydrological conditions in coastal bays were characterised by combined winter sea-ice and open water conditions. This extensive period of glacial retreat was followed by the Holocene optimum (~4000 to ~1000 cal yr BP), which occurred later in the southern Windmill Islands than in most other Antarctic coastal regions. Diatom assemblages in this period suggest ice-free conditions and meltwater-stratified waters in the marine bays during summer, which is also reflected in high proportions of freshwater diatoms in the sediments. The diatom assemblage in the upper sediments of both cores indicates Neoglacial cooling from ~1000 cal yr BP, which again led to seasonally persistent sea-ice on the bays. The Holocene optimum and cooling trends in the Windmill Islands did not occur contemporaneously with other Antarctic coastal regions, showing that the here presented record reflects partly local environmental conditions rather than global climatic trends.

Stable isotope record of the Okhotsk Sea

Stable isotope data on benthic foraminifera from more than 30 cores on the northern Emperor Seamounts and in the Okhotsk Sea are synthesized in paleohydrographic profiles spanning the depth range 1000-4000 m. Holocene (core-top) benthic foraminiferal d18O and d13C data are calibrated to modern hydrographic properties through measurements of d13C of SumCO2 and d18O of seawater. Cibicidoides stable isotope ratios are close to the d13C and equilibrium d18O of seawater, whereas Uvigerina d18O and d13C are variably offset from Cibicidoides. Glacial maximum d13C of Cibicidoides displays a different vertical profile than that of the Holocene. When results are adjusted by +0.32 per mil to account for the secular change in d13C during the last glacial maximum, the data coincide with the modern seawater and foraminiferal curves deeper than ~2 km. However, at shallower depths d13C gradually increases by as much as 1 per mil above the modern value. Furthermore, above 2 km the benthic d18O decreases by ~0.5 per mil. These results are consistent with a benthic front at ~2 km in the North Pacific (see Herguera et al., 1992), but they differ from interpretations based on trace metal data which indicate a source of nutrient-depleted deep water during glaciation. The isotopic data suggest that during glaciation there was a better ventilated watermass at intermediate depths in the far northwestern Pacific, it was relatively fresher than deep waters there, and deep waters were as nutrient-rich as today.

Platinum-group element abundances in background samples and the K-T boundary interval from DSDP Hole 91-596 (Table 2)

New data on Ru/Ir abundance ratios are presented for nonmarine (Hell Creek, Montana; Frenchman River, Saskatchewan) and marine Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sites (Brazos River, Texas; Beloc, Haiti; DSDP 577 and DSDP 596). The Ru/Ir ratio varies from 0.5 to 1 within 4000 km of Chicxulub and increases to 2-3 at paleodistances (65 Ma) of up to 12,000 km from the impact site. For CI chondrites, Ru/Ir = 1.5. A ballistic model of ejecta cloud cooling and expansion, which employs the available vapor-pressure versus temperature data for Ru and It, predicts qualitatively similar global variation in the Ru/Ir ratio but by only a factor of 1.5. We infer that several other factors, such as remobilization of PGE during diagenesis, preferential oxidation of Ru, condensation kinetics and atmospheric chemical and circulation processes, may account for the observed larger Ru/Ir variation.