Imágenes y sueños de la ciudad futura (literatura y cine) : Biopolítica y ciencia ficción

En mi trabajo investigo las nuevas modulaciones de la ciencia ficción en el cine argentino de las últimas décadas observando cómo determinados saberes tales como la ciencia, la medicina y la biotecnología, están presente en su imaginario. Observaré cómo cierta fantasía futurista se encuentra impregnada de un substrato arcano que remite a un imaginario mitológico en diálogo permanente con los mitos del propio psicoanálisis y la antropología culturalista. Para ello, analizaremos cómo se articula o desarticula la máquina antropológica observando las tensiones en torno al tratamiento de los cuerpos y la configuración de las subjetividades

Isotopic ratios, concentration of noble gases and mineral and bulk composition of extraterrestrial dust particles in Dome Fuji ice core, East Antarctica

Two silicate-rich dust layers were found in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica, at Marine Isotope Stages 12 and 13. Morphologies, textures, and chemical compositions of constituent particles reveal that they are high-temperature melting products and are of extraterrestrial origin. Because similar layers were found ~2000 km east of Dome Fuji, at EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica)-Dome C, particles must have rained down over a wide area 434 and 481 ka. The strewn fields occurred over an area of at least 3 × 10**6 km**2. Chemical compositions of constituent phases and oxygen isotopic composition of olivines suggest that the upper dust layer was produced by a high-temperature interaction between silicate-rich melt and water vapor due to an impact explosion or an aerial burst of a chondritic meteoroid on the inland East Antarctic ice sheet. An estimated total mass of the impactor, on the basis of particle flux and distribution area, is at least 3 × 10**9 kg. A possible parent material of the lower dust layer is a fragment of friable primitive asteroid or comet. A hypervelocity impact of asteroidal/cometary material on the upper atmosphere and an explosion might have produced aggregates of sub-µm to µm-sized spherules. Total mass of the parent material of the lower layer must exceed 1 × 10**9 kg. The two extraterrestrial horizons, each a few millimeters in thickness, represent regional or global meteoritic events not identified previously in the Southern Hemisphere.

Tab. 1: Januar temperatures on location of the high northern hemisphere (Lustrenwerte)

Während sich Mitteleuropa bereits seit 1920 in einer Phase sinkender Januartemperatur befindet, trat dieser Klima-Umschwung in höheren Breiten immer später ein, so waren in Königsberg die beiden Januar Lustren 1916-1920 und 1921-1925 gleich warm, und in Upsala und Haparanda waren die Jahrfünfte mildester Januartemperatur in beiden Fällen 1931-35 - eine Erscheinung von übrigens weltweitem Charakter, denn auch weiteste Teile der U.S.A. hatten in dieser Zeit die mildesten Januarmonate.

Survey of living conditions of Arctic indigenous peoples

Major findings of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA) are: (1) A combination of traditional activities and cash employment is the prevailing lifestyle of Arctic indigenous peoples; (2) family ties, social support of each other, and traditional activities have a lot to do with why indigenous people choose to remain in Arctic communities; (3) well-being is closely related to job opportunities, locally available fish and game, and a sense of local control. Well-being and depression (and related problems like suicide) are flip sides of the same coin. Improving well-being may reduce social problems; and, (4) health conditions vary widely in the Arctic: three-in-four Greenlandic Inuit self-rate their health as at least very good compared with one-in-two Canadian and Alaska Inuit and one-in-five Chukotka indigenous people. Findings are based on 7,200 interviews in a probability sample of Inupiat settlement regions of Alaska, the four Inuit settlement regions of Canada, all of Greenland, and the Anadyrskij, Anadyr, Shmidtovs, Beringovskij, Chukotskij, Iujl'tinskij, Bilibinskij, Chaunskij, Providenskij, Uel'Kal' districts of Chukotka. Indigenous people and researchers from Greenland, Russia, Canada, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland collaborated on all phases of the study.