Hybrid philosophy and rational vitalism in Canguilhem and Ortega y Gasset

This paper explores the problem of the synthesis between vitalism and rationalism, in contemporary philosophy. With this aim, we compare the intellectual careers of Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) and José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955). We contrast their conceptions of philosophy as “hybrid” knowledge, closely related to science, as well as their points of view on Vitalism, anthropology, the technique and the perspectivism. To avoid that comparison is purely abstract and ahistorical, we use the method of the sociology of philosophy. This forces us to locate both paths in their respective philosophical fields and generational units, also according to his social background and professional career.

Women artists of the international avant-garde: the case of "Abstraction-Création" (1931-1936)

Women’s contribution to abstract art in the interwar period is a subject that, to date, has received very little attention. In this article we deal with the untold story of the participation of women artists in Abstraction-Création, the foremost international group dedicated to abstract art in the 1930s. Founded in Paris in 1931, the group took on the work of two previous collectives to become a platform for the dissemination and promotion of abstract art and consisted of around a hundred members. Twelve of these were women, whose writings and works were published in the group’s annual magazine, abstraction creátion art non figuratif (1932-1936), and who participated in a number of the group’s exhibitions. Compared to what had occurred in previous groups, the participation of women, although reduced in number, was comparable to that of the male artists and being members of the group had a generally positive impact on the women’s careers. However, all this came at the expense of relinquishing any gender specificity in their work and the public presentation of it, and demonstrates that the normalization of women’s contributions to the avant-garde could only be brought about alongside a questioning of the more dogmatic views of modernity.

The use of cues for attention in ancient Greek art: aspects that influence concentration in the work of art and its elements

The goal of this study is to identify cues for the cognitive process of attention in ancient Greek art, aiming to find confirmation of its possible use by ancient Greek audiences and artists. Evidence of cues that trigger attention’s psychological dispositions was searched through content analysis of image reproductions of ancient Greek sculpture and fine vase painting from the archaic to the Hellenistic period - ca. 7th -1st cent. BC. Through this analysis, it was possible to observe the presence of cues that trigger orientation to the work of art (i.e. amplification, contrast, emotional salience, simplification, symmetry), of a cue that triggers a disseminate attention to the parts of the work (i.e. distribution of elements) and of cues that activate selective attention to specific elements in the work of art (i.e. contrast of elements, salient color, central positioning of elements, composition regarding the flow of elements and significant objects). Results support the universality of those dispositions, probably connected with basic competencies that are hard-wired in the nervous system and in the cognitive processes.

Primitivismo y Feminismo en el arte contemporáneo

Para la mentalidad colonialista del siglo XIX la raza negra estaba provista de una extraordinaria sexualidad y lujuria. En la metrópolis el equivalente era la mujer sexuada, la prostituta. En los primeros años del siglo XX este tándem, prostituta-colonizado, sirve a los artistas vanguardistas como elemento de confrontación con la moral imperante. Son las artistas mujeres, con una intención feminista, quienes principalmente utilizan el primitivismo asociado a la mujer en su crítica a los estereotipos. Figura pionera en ello es Hannah Höch, especialmente en su serie De un Museo Etnográfico, en el que asocia figuras femeninas y objetos de arte primitivo. En los años 70 del siglo XX, algunas artistas de la performance, como Carolee Schneemann o Ana Mendieta reivindican el cuerpo femenino con el significado de Origen y Fertilidad que tiene en las culturas primitivas. En este mismo contexto puede inscribirse la escultura Maman de Louise Bourgeois. El elemento de crítica social, que está vigente aún en nuestros días, puede verse en las obras de las Guerrilla Girls.

THE MARINE RADIOCARBON BOMB PULSE ACROSS THE TEMPERATE NORTH ATLANTIC: A COMPILATION OF Delta C-14 TIME HISTORIES FROM ARCTICA ISLANDICA GROWTH INCREMENTS

Marine radiocarbon bomb-pulse time histories of annually resolved archives from temperate regions have been underexploited. We present here series of Delta C-14 excess from known-age annual increments of the long-lived bivalve mollusk Arctica islandica from 4 sites across the coastal North Atlantic (German Bight, North Sea; Tromso, north Norway; Siglufjordur, north Icelandic shelf; Grimsey, north Icelandic shelf) combined with published series from Georges Bank and Sable Bank (NW Atlantic) and the Oyster Ground (North Sea). The atmospheric bomb pulse is shown to be a step-function whose response in the marine environment is immediate but of smaller amplitude and which has a longer decay time as a result of the much larger marine carbon reservoir. Attenuation is determined by the regional hydrographic setting of the sites, vertical mixing, processes controlling the isotopic exchange of C-14 at the air-sea boundary, C-14 content of the freshwater flux, primary productivity, and the residence time of organic matter in the sediment mixed layer. The inventories form a sequence from high magnitude-early peak (German Bight) to low magnitude-late peak (Grimsey). All series show a rapid response to the increase in atmospheric Delta C-14 excess but a slow response to the subsequent decline resulting from the succession of rapid isotopic air-sea exchange followed by the more gradual isotopic equilibration in the mixed layer due to the variable marine carbon reservoir and incorporation of organic carbon from the sediment mixed layer. The data constitute calibration series for the use of the bomb pulse as a high-resolution dating tool in the marine environment and as a tracer of coastal ocean water masses.

Exposición Internacional 1910. Buenos Aires.: Didactic leisure and international recognition

International exhibitions were greatly responsible for the modernization of western society. The motive for these events was based on the possibility of enhancing the country’s international status abroad. The genesis of world exhibitions came from the conviction that humanity as a whole would improve the continual flow of new practical applications, the development of modern communication techniques and the social need for a medium that could acquaint the general public with changes in technology, economy and society .
Since the first national industrial exhibitions in Paris during the eighteenth century and especially starting from the first Great Exhibition in London’s Hyde Park in 1851 these international events spread steadily all over Europe and the United States, to reach Latin America in the beginnings of the twentieth century . The work of professionals such as Daniel Burnham, Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets made the relation between exhibitions and urban transformation a much more connected one, setting a precedent for subsequent exhibitions.
In Buenos Aires, the celebration of the centennial of independence from Spain in 1910 had many meanings and repercussions. A series of factors allowed for a moment of change in the city. Official optimism, economical progress, inequality and social conflict made of this a suitable time for transformation. With the organization of the Exposición Internacional the government had, among others, one specific aim: to achieve a network of visual tools to set the feeling of belonging and provide an identity for the mixture of cultures that populated the city of Buenos Aires at the time. Another important objective of the government was to put Buenos Aires at the level of European cities.
Foreign professionals had a great influence in the conceptual and factual shaping of the exhibition and in the subsequent changes caused in the urban condition. The exhibition had an important role in the ways of thinking the city and in the leisure ideas it introduced. The exhibition, as a didactic tool, worked as a precedent for conceiving leisure spaces in the future. Urban and landscape planners such as Joseph Bouvard and Charles Thays were instrumental in great part of the design of the Exhibition, but it was not only the architects and designers who shaped the identity of the fair. Other visitors such as Jules Huret or Georges Clemenceau were responsible for giving the city an international image it did not previously have.
This paper will explore on the one hand the significance of the exhibition of 1910 for the shaping of the city and its image; and on the other hand, the role of foreign professionals and the reach these influences had.

Rent: Prostitution and the Irish apartment block

In 1974, pursuing his interest in the infra-ordinary – ‘the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the back-ground noise, the habitual’ – Georges Perec wrote about an idea for a novel:

‘I imagine a Parisian apartment building whose façade has been removed … so that all the rooms in the front, from the ground floor up to the attics, are instantly and simultaneously visible’.

In Life A User’s Manual (1978) the consummation of this precis, patterns of existence are measured within architectural space with an archaeological sensibility that sifts through narrative and décor, structure and history, services and emotion, the personal and the system, ascribing commensurate value to each. Borrowing methods from Perec, to move somewhere between conjecture, analysis and other documentation and tracing relationships between form, structure, materiality, technology, organisation, tenure and narrative use, this paper interrogates the late twentieth-century speculative apartment block in Britain and Ireland arguing that its speculative and commodified purpose often allows a series of lives that are less than ordinary to inhabit its spaces.

Attending Physician Variability: A Model of Four Supervisory Styles

Purpose: There is wide variability in how attending physician roles on teaching teams, including patient care and trainee learning, are enacted. This study sought to better understand variability by considering how different attendings configured and rationalized direct patient care, trainee oversight, and teaching activities. 

Method: Constructivist grounded theory guided iterative data collection and analyses. Data were interviews with 24 attending physicians from two academic centers in Ontario, Canada, in 2012. During interviews, participants heard a hypothetical presentation and reflected on it as though it were presented to their team during a typical admission case review. 

Results: Four supervisory styles were identified: direct care, empowerment, mixed practice, and minimalist. Driven by concerns for patient safety, direct care involves delegating minimal patient care responsibility to trainees. Focused on supporting trainees’ progressive independence, empowerment uses teaching and oversight strategies to ensure quality of care. In mixed practice, patient care is privileged over teaching and is adjusted on the basis of trainee competence and contextual features such as patient volume. Minimalist style involves a high degree of trust in senior residents, delegating most patient care, and teaching to them. Attendings rarely discussed their styles with the team. 

Conclusions: The model adds to the literature on variability in supervisory practice, showing that the four styles reflect different ways of responding to tensions in the role and context. This model could be refined through observational research exploring the impact of context on style development and enactment. Making supervisory styles explicit could support improvement of team competence.

Rent: apartment blocks and their uses

In 1974, pursuing his interest in the infra-ordinary – ‘the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the back-ground noise, the habitual’ – Georges Perec wrote about an idea for a novel:
‘I imagine a Parisian apartment building whose façade has been removed … so that all the rooms in the front, from the ground floor up to the attics, are instantly and simultaneously visible’.
In Life A User’s Manual (1978) the consummation of this precis, patterns of existence are measured within architectural space with an archaeological sensibility that sifts through narrative and décor, structure and history, services and emotion, the personal and the system, ascribing commensurate value to each.
Apartment comes from the Italian appartare meaning ‘to separate’. The space of the boundary between activities is reduced to a series of intimately thin lines: the depth of a floor, a party wall, a window, the convex peep-hole in a door, or the façade that Perec seeks to render invisible. The apartness of the apartment is accelerated when aligned with short-term tenancies. Here Perec’s interweaving of personal histories over time using the structure of the block, gives way to convivialities of detachment: inhabitants are temporary, their personalities anonymous, their activities unknown or overlooked.
Borrowing methods from Perec, to move somewhere between conjecture, analysis and other documentation and tracing relationships between form, structure, materiality, technology, organisation, tenure and narrative use, this paper interrogates the late twentieth-century speculative apartment block in Britain and Ireland arguing that its speculative and commodified purpose allows a series of lives that are often less than ordinary to inhabit its spaces.
Henri Lefebvre described the emergence of an ‘abstract space’ under capitalism in terms which can be applied to the apartment building: the division of space into freely alienable privatised parcels which can be exchanged. Vertical distributions of class and other new, contiguous social and spatial relationships are couched within a paradox: the building which allows such proximities is also a conductor of division. Apartment comes from the Italian appartare meaning ‘to separate’. The space of the boundary between activities is reduced to a series of intimately thin lines: the depth of a floor, a party wall, a window, the convex peep-hole in a door, or the façade that Perec seeks to render invisible. The apartness of the apartment is accelerated when aligned with short-term tenancies. Here Perec’s interweaving of personal histories over time using the structure of the block, gives way to convivialities of detachment: inhabitants are temporary, their personalities anonymous, their activities unknown or overlooked.

Congreso Internacional. 70 años del exilio español en México

Participan: Dra. Gina Zabludovsky, Dra. Eugenia Meyer, Dra. Tatiana Sule, Dra. Anamari Gomís, Dra. Juliana González, Dra. Estela Morales, Dra. Mari Carmen Serra-Puche, Mtra. Claudia Llanos, Dra. Aurora Diez-Canedo, Dr. Ramón Xirau, Dr. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, Dr. Federico Álvarez, Dr. Federico Patán, Dr. Arturo Souto, Dr. Fernando Serrano Migallón, Dr. José Antonio Matesanz, Dr. Pablo Mora, Dr. Enrique del Val, Dr. Josu Landa, Dra. Angelina Muñiz Huberman, Dra. Carmen Rovira, Dra. Julieta Lizaola, Dra. Josefina Macgregor, Dr. Ernesto Guevara Fefer, Dra. Ascensión Hernández Treviño, Dr. Luis Villoro, Dr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Dra. María de Lourdes Pastor Pérez, Dra. María Luisa Capella, Dr. James Valender, Dr. Javier Garciadiego, Dra. Dolores Pla, Dra. Enriqueta Tuñon, Dr. Enrique López Aguilar, Belen Santos, Leonor Sarmiento, Dr. José Luis Abellán, Dra. Alicia Alted, Dr. Abdón Mateos, Dr. Javier Muguerza, Dr. Mariano Peset, Dr. María Fernanda Mancebo, Dra. Yolanda Blasco, Dr. Jorge Correa, Dr. Salvador Albiñana.

Presentación del libro: Cartas de viaje desde México

Participan: José Enrique Covarrubias, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Vicente Quirarte, Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle, Cecilia Tercero, Renata von Hanffstengel

Construction d'une communauté apprenante dans le contexte de la réforme le cas d'un récit d'apprentissage d'une équipe-école au Brésil

Cette thèse résulte d'une recherche qualitative qui s'inscrit dans le domaine de la recherche-action. L'origine de cette étude vient d'un projet pilote exploratoire réalisé auprès d'enseignants dans une école secondaire du Brésil. Les problèmes de transfert quant à la formation et à l'appropriation de la réforme en éducation nous ont amenée à développer une démarche particulière.Cette démarche privilégie l'usage de l'apprentissage dans l'action selon deux approches complémentaires: l'approche du codéveloppement professionnel (Payette et Champagne, 2000) et l'approche normative de l'organisation apprenante (Senge et al ., 2000) dans la construction d'une communauté apprenante dans un contexte de réforme scolaire. L'approche du codéveloppement met l'accent sur le partage des expériences, sur la réflexion individuelle et de groupe, sur les interactions structurées entre professionnels expérimentés. Elle vise à élargir les capacités d'action et de réflexion de chaque membre du groupe. L'approche normative de l'organisation apprenante suppose que l'apprentissage, comme activité collective, se produit sous certaines conditions ou certaines circonstances. Le rôle des responsables de l'organisation dans cette perspective est de créer les conditions essentielles afin que se produise l'apprentissage. L'objectif de cette recherche porte sur l'évolution du développement de la communauté d'apprentissage dans une équipe-école au Brésil. Une communauté apprenante est un groupe de personnes qui adopte une approche active, collaborative, orientée vers l'apprentissage, lequel favorise la croissance et le développement des individus pour résoudre les problèmes, les mystères et les incertitudes liées à l'enseignement et à l'apprentissage (Mitchell et Sackney, 2000). Grâce à une collecte de données articulant l'observation participante, les questions et les exercices réflexifs, nous avons pu faire émerger les données. L'analyse des données a été guidée par le modèle interactif de Huberman et Miles (1991) et de la théorie ancrée de Glaser et Strauss (1967). Le récit d'apprentissage (Roth et Kleiner, 2000), une approche qui préconise l'entrevue semi-structurée comme principal instrument de collecte des données, a permis de décrire et de comprendre l'évolution du processus et les impacts produits par les stratégies d'intervention.Cette approche se caractérise par une nouvelle façon de présenter et de raconter un changement à travers les mots et les voix des personnes impliquées. Elle est composé de sept étapes: vie réelle, sessions de planification, collecte de données, distillation, écriture et production, validité et dissémination. À la lumière des résultats, nous avons pu dégager que les stratégies d'intervention ont eu des effets significatifs sur le développement personnel, professionnel et organisationnel, que la réforme de l'éducation, dans ce cas, passe premièrement par un processus de développement individuel et de groupe et par une transformation d'une équipe-école en une communauté apprenante.Cette communauté s'avère un véritable processus dynamique, qui se construit à l'intérieur d'un espace scolaire, à partir d'échanges d'expérience et à l'aide de stratégies particulières.

Comportamento do líder inovador em organizações turísticas

Um dos problemas que se coloca ao investigador refere-se ao facto da maioria das pessoas nas organizações actuar de forma diferente daquela que afirma. A teoria declarada, constituída pelos objectivos e valores que a pessoa refere orientarem o seu comportamento difere muitas vezes da teoria praticada, integrando os objectivos e valores implícitos que efectivamente orientam esse comportamento. Assim, procurando recolher dados que reflictam as teorias praticadas, recorremos à metodologia dos constructos pessoais de Georges Kelly (1963) que permite eliminar o viés do observador e compreender o modo como as pessoas dão sentido à sua realidade e experiência, na sua própria linguagem. Após uma breve apresentação do método, exemplificamos como ele pode ser utilizado para identificar o modo como os trabalhadores percepcionam o líder inovador no sector do turismo.

Alte: análise das estratégias promocionais atuais de uma aldeia do barrocal do Algarve

Hoje em dia é inegável a importância do turismo nas economias de muitos países. Essa influência depende, em muito, da informação que se encontra disponível, sob vários formatos, da responsabilidade de diferentes entidades e que se mostra decisiva nas escolhas que os turistas fazem dos seus destinos de férias. Foi, este facto, a principal razão pela qual se selecionou, para a temática da presente dissertação, a análise de um dos P do marketing mix turístico de uma pequena aldeia do interior do concelho de Loulé. Na abordagem teórica tiveram-se em consideração autores como P. Kotler para os conceitos de marketing e na comunicação dos destinos; D. Buhalis nas estratégias de marketing desenvolvidas para a internet; C. Cooper nos conceitos em turismo e em marketing turístico; O. Jenkins, M. Gallarza, C. Etchtner, S. Baloglu e J. Bigné nos conceitos, estudos e modelos de avaliação da imagem dos destinos turísticos; A.J. Veal nos conceitos e técnicas de métodos de pesquisa em turismo; S. Pike nos conceitos e estratégias definidos pelas organizações que se responsabilizam pelo marketing dos destinos e A. Huberman e M. Miles no modelo de tratamento da informação obtida através da aplicação das entrevistas. Relativamente à metodologia utilizada, recorreu-se ao estudo de caso e às técnicas da análise documental e da entrevista. Nesse sentido realizou-se a aplicação de entrevistas semiestruturadas, a uma amostra selecionada de decisores locais e regionais. Utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo baseada no modelo de Huberman e Miles (1994) para o tratamento dos dados obtidos através da aplicação das entrevistas. Com o presente trabalho foi possível comprovar a importância que o turismo tem em termos económicos na região; a necessidade de realização de estudos aos turistas que nos visitam; a necessidade da concertação de estratégias de comunicação / promoção entre as entidades responsáveis a nível local, municipal e regional; a necessidade de adequar a imagem da aldeia e a definição de instrumentos mais adequados na transmissão dessa imagem, destacando-se a utilização melhorada da internet.

Le mensonge qui imitait la verité: entre une ethique artistique et une ethique de vie

Ce mémoire création porte sur un apprentissage de deux ans sur les comportements scéniques de l'acteur et sur une approche théâtrale où l'éthique, l'esthétique et les techniques s’inspirent de l'authenticité de l'interprétation. Ce mémoire présente des réflexions sur une pratique théâtrale perçue à partir de quatre vocables du lexique de cette conception théâtrale: la confidentialité, le mensonge, l'effet et les monstres. Ce mémoire est composé de trois chapitres. Le premier chapitre expose ma vision du théâtre avant de préparer la maitrise, puis souligne en quoi ma vision du théâtre et ma vision de la vie ont pu être influencées par ma première année d'étude. J'établis également un lien entre ces deux conceptions entièrement différentes. Dans le deuxième chapitre, j'expose la genèse qui nous a amenés à la création de Gogo e Didi: Cantata com prelúdio e fugas. J'y décris notre spectacle et j'expose le sens que nous attribuons au texte. Ce mémoire se conçoit et se comprend donc comme un outil d'accompagnement à la création de notre représentation et est aussi le témoignage de ce que nous avons acquis pendant ces deux années d'études. Le côté pratique de notre apprentissage est décrit dans le troisième chapitre autour des quatre vocables mentionnés. J'y définirai ces quatre termes et je ferai un lien avec nos explorations pratiques. N'ayant pas pour sujet principal la formation d'acteurs, cette étude permet de mieux cerner une conception théâtrale basée sur l'authenticité, à travers mon expérience et une réflexion personnelle où je démontre que la pédagogie du «faire» permet de mieux comprendre les difficultés et les différents comportements scéniques de l'acteur.