Los “gobiernos progresista” de América Latina. La avanzada del pos-neoliberalismo

Los gobiernos “progresistas” con la puesta en marcha de su política económica, han mostrado la verdadera intención de su proyecto político, que no ha consistido en superar el neoliberalismo y mucho menos el capitalismo; y si bien se han desarrollado políticas sociales que “beneficiaron” a algunos sectores poblacionales empobrecidos, no se puede hablar de un proyecto de transformación social, sino que por el contrario, son proyectos que están afirmando la economía mercantil capitalista, en base a la más pura política gubernamental neoliberal.

The postoccidental deconstruction and resignification of "Modernity'': a critical analysis

The thesis which follows, entitled ''The Postoccidental Deconstruction and Resignification of 'Modemity': A Critical Analysis", is an exposition and criticism of the critique of occidental modemity found in a group of writings which identify their critique with a "postoccidental" point of view with respect to postcolonial studies. The general problem ofthe investigation concems the significance and reach ofthis critique of modemity in relation to the ongoing debate, in Latín American studies, about the historical relationship between Latín America, as a mu1ticultural/ structurally heterogeneous region, and the industrial societies of Euro pe and North America. A brief Preface explains the genealogy of the author's ideas on this subject Following this preface, the thesis proceeds to analyze the writings in this corpus through an intertextual, schematic approach which singles out two rnajor elements of the postoccidental critique: "coloniality" and "eurocentrism". These two main elements are investigated in the Introduction and Chapters One and Two, in terms of how they distinguish postoccidental analysis from other theoretical tendencias with which it has affinities but whose key concepts it reformu1ates in ways that are key to the unique approach which postoccidental analysis takes to modemity, the nature of the capitalist world system, colonialism, subaltemization, center/periphery and development . Chapter Three attempts a critical analysis of the foregoing postoccidentalist deconstruction according to the following question: to what extent does it succeed in deconstructing "modernity" as a term which refers to a historically articulated set of discourses whose underlying purpose has been to justify European and North American hegemony and structural asymmetries vis-a-vis the peripheries of the capitalist world system, based on an ethnocentric, racialist logic of exploitation and subalternization of non-European peoples? A Conclusion follows Chapter Three.

Cultura organizacional en clave (pos)modernista

Esta investigación, esencialmente teórica, reflexiona sobre la deconstrucción del discurso funcionalista de la cultura organizacional, a partir de los estudios críticos en la gestión y de las teorías organizacionales posmodernistas que se sitúan en los márgenes del centro hegemónico en la administración. En un contexto dialéctico entre modernidad y posmodernidad, y sobre la base de las categorías de deconstrucción, discurso y subjetividad –que sustentan la mirada de que la realidad se constituye por medio del lenguaje– se elucida el concepto de la dimensión simbólica del “espacio-dinámica organizacional”. Además, por medio del análisis de las formaciones discursivas sobre cultura organizacional, la investigación examina las metanarrativas y los conceptos positivistas de las teorías modernistas en la gestión, en contraste con las teorías posmodernistas que visibilizan las subjetividades, que según este estudio son parte de las presunciones básicas de la cultura organizacional. La fundamentación de la estrategia metodológica forma parte de la reflexión teórica de la tesis, con la cual fue posible identificar una epistemología afín al posmodernismo organizacional como una contribución a la replicabilidad científica. Los datos empíricos –que ilustran la comprensión de los planteamientos ontológicos– fueron recogidos por medio de una etnografía enfocada, como estrategia metodológica antitética al concepto funcionalista de comprobación empírica, y se llevó a cabo en una organización cultural en la ciudad de París: el Musée du Quai Branly. La tesis contempla un aporte autorreflexivo del investigador, como leit motiv de este estudio, cuyo eje gira en torno a la comprensión de las teorías organizacionales críticas y posmodernistas.

The Dark Monarch: magic and modernity in British art

This major curated exhibition, publication and events builds on Rowlands’ curatorial research. Working in collaboration with co-curators Martin Clark, Artistic Director, Tate St Ives and Michael Bracewell, cultural historian, the exhibition sought to explore new narratives within British art. The innovative curatorial methodology developed from a fiction found in the infamous novel, The Dark Monarch by Sven Berlin, Gallery Press 1962. The research sought specific archival and collection work that allowed thematic strands to emerge that represented influences across generations. The exhibition features two-hundred artworks, from the Tate Collection, archives and other significant British public and private collections. It examines the development of early Modernism, in the UK, as well as the reappearance of esoteric and arcane references in a significant strand of contemporary art practice. Historical works from Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore and Paul Nash are shown alongside contemporary artists including Derek Jarman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Eva Rothschild, Linder and John Russell. The exhibition includes a key work by Damien Hirst ¬ the first time he has been shown at Tate St Ives and a number of contemporary commissions. The Dark Monarch publication extended the discourse of the research critically examining the tension between progressive modernity and romantic knowledge, the book focuses on the way that artworks are encoded with various histories - geological, mythical and magical. Essays examine magic as a counterpoint to modernity’s transparency and rational progress, but also draw out the links modernity has with notions such as fetishism, mana, totem, and the taboo. Often viewed as counter to Modernism, this collection of essays suggest that these products of illusion and delusion in fact belong to modernity. Drawing together 15 different writers commissioned to explore magic as a counterpoint of liberal understanding of modernity, drawing out links that modernity has with notions of fetish, taboo and occult philosophy. Including essays by Marina Warner, Ilsa Colsell, Philip Hoare, Chris Stephens, Jennifer Higgie and Morrissey.