Gustavo Borges, Men's Swimming

(Borges is second from right)

(In)armonías, imágenes y memoria. Sobre la muestra fotográfica "Ausencias" de Gustavo Germano

En los últimos años, han surgido distintas producciones artísticas realizadas por familiares de víctimas de la última dictadura militar argentina. Tales producciones han servido para (re)problematizar dicho periodo a través de modos representacionales que proponen discusiones, tanto con las estilísticas como con las nociones de memoria precedentes. El arte fotográfico se convirtió en uno de los dispositivos visuales recurrentemente utilizados para dicho propósito revisitador. Esta ponencia intentará analizar los modos de representación de la memoria en una serie de producciones fotográficas que posibilitaron la irrupción de discursos en donde tanto el registro subjetivo, como la evidenciación de una puesta escena (desplazando las funciones objetivas y documentales, canónicas en el uso hegemónico de la fotografía), resignificaron novedosa, trágicamente, la construcción de la memoria del pasado reciente. Se entenderá tal serie compuesta por los trabajos fotográficos "Arqueología de la ausencia" de Lucila Quieto, y las fotografías de Victor Basterra presentes en el libro "Memoria en construcción" de Marcelo Brodsky, y "Ausencias", de Gustavo Germano (el cual será abordado en el presente trabajo) El objetivo en definitiva será indagar los distintos modos e implicancias estético-políticas de restituciones visuales de la ausencia que estas obras proponen. Relacionando los conceptos de Conflicto y Memoria, articulando una reflexión sobre el tipo de configuración de la trama social pasada/presente, que dichas representaciones engendran

(In)armonías, imágenes y memoria. Sobre la muestra fotográfica "Ausencias" de Gustavo Germano

En los últimos años, han surgido distintas producciones artísticas realizadas por familiares de víctimas de la última dictadura militar argentina. Tales producciones han servido para (re)problematizar dicho periodo a través de modos representacionales que proponen discusiones, tanto con las estilísticas como con las nociones de memoria precedentes. El arte fotográfico se convirtió en uno de los dispositivos visuales recurrentemente utilizados para dicho propósito revisitador. Esta ponencia intentará analizar los modos de representación de la memoria en una serie de producciones fotográficas que posibilitaron la irrupción de discursos en donde tanto el registro subjetivo, como la evidenciación de una puesta escena (desplazando las funciones objetivas y documentales, canónicas en el uso hegemónico de la fotografía), resignificaron novedosa, trágicamente, la construcción de la memoria del pasado reciente. Se entenderá tal serie compuesta por los trabajos fotográficos "Arqueología de la ausencia" de Lucila Quieto, y las fotografías de Victor Basterra presentes en el libro "Memoria en construcción" de Marcelo Brodsky, y "Ausencias", de Gustavo Germano (el cual será abordado en el presente trabajo) El objetivo en definitiva será indagar los distintos modos e implicancias estético-políticas de restituciones visuales de la ausencia que estas obras proponen. Relacionando los conceptos de Conflicto y Memoria, articulando una reflexión sobre el tipo de configuración de la trama social pasada/presente, que dichas representaciones engendran

Écfrasis y Lecturas Icono-textuales en las "Leyendas" de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

The relationship between literature and the visual arts is ancient and it has been studied from different conceptual frames. Scholars agree that both have a descriptive function and therefore share the common goal of portraying a fictional or nonfictional reality. Based on this correspondence between two different modes of artistic expression, the Roman poet Horace coined the well-known simile ut pictura poesis --as is painting so is in poetry-- which in turn functions as the theoretical underpinning of ekphrasis, a rhetorical device through which one medium of art tries to describe the essence and form of another medium of art, with the purpose of enhancing the original work described. Spanish post-romantic poet and writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870) mastered this rhetorical strategy by expertly weaving all of his artistic interests into his prose. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze how Bécquer makes his readers both see and hear through his prose. My semiotic research encompasses the various forms of ekphrasis used by Bécquer in the “Leyendas”. It shows how both images and symbols produce in readers sensory experiences that enhance their role as active participants in the creation of meaning. Thus, Bécquer´s prose is like a painting which not only tells a story, but also reflects reality through the eyes of the reader’s imagination. By using these ekphrastic strategies in his collection of short stories, Bécquer makes words, paintings, and music converge and collide with iconography, visual culture, and intertextuality. These components must be read, seen, heard, and understood to be more than just complementary to the text, but rather crucial elements, equal in importance to verbal expression. This analysis shows how Bécquer’s “Leyendas” not only tackle notions such as fantasy, figuration, and imagination, but also the importance of the reader´s gaze. Bécquer integrates processes such as imaginative action, iconization and visualization, into a semantic web whereby the reader creates his own particular hermeneutic image.

Gustavo Barroso, o führer brasileiro: nação e identidade no discurso integralista barrosiano de 1933-1937

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how Gustavo Barroso sought to discursively construct what would be the Brazilian spatiality through an Interpretation of national history marked by the Jewish conspiracy theory, a racist doctrine in various aspects dialogued with Nazi doctrine, and the thought the Catholic Restoration. Writing that built a given image of the nation. Writing and producing product that is the source of other discourses that operate on the world, appointing him, enveloping him in a load of meanings. Interpretations of time and space that discursively construct realities and ways of being in the world. For the development of this work we will focus mainly on the analysis of the literature of the period integralist Gustavo Barroso since the year 1933 until the year 1937, as well as undertake an analysis of the Cohen Plan, which we understood to be the heir of a grid of thought that falls in line with the theories of political and racial anti-Semitic plot. Thus, we assume that it is necessary to think of the space also in their political and cultural dimensions, and with an barrosiana significance of national space, expressed in the discursive field, the result of a given historical moment and engaged with certain power relations, which unfold through complex relationships, we understand that Barroso made the reading of the Brazilian nation would be its own representation.

Left to right: Gustavo Rubio and Melissa Romigh measuring diameter at breast height (DBH) of mangrove trees at SRS-6, Shark River Slough

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research program under Cooperative Agreements #DBI-0620409 and #DEB-9910514. This image is made available for non-commercial or educational use only.

Measuring sawgrass in macrophyte plots at TS/Ph-1 (Gustavo Rubio, Damon Rondeau)

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research program under Cooperative Agreements #DBI-0620409 and #DEB-9910514. This image is made available for non-commercial or educational use only.

Representações de ciência e tecnologia em Gustavo Barroso (1909-1935): nacionalismo autoritário, eugenia e antissemitismo

This study focuses on the representations of science and technology in the thinking of the Brazilian intellectual Gustavo Barroso in the period between 1909 and 1935. As one of the main leaders of the Brazilian Integralism, we will discuss,especially, his eugenic vision, prior to his participation in integralism and the influence of this science in building his authoritarian and anti-Semitic thinking. We seek to realize Gustavo Barroso dialogue, in a context of profound social and political changes, with the search for a nationalism "truly Brazilian." The methodology used was of a documentary and literature research , highlighting the analysis of Gustavo Barroso books, which were used as primary sources: Intelligencia das Coisas(1923), Aquém da Atlântida (1931), Brasil Colônia de Banqueiros (1934), O Integralismo de Norte a Sul (1934), O Quarto Império (1935) e A Palavra e o Pensamento Integralista (1935), and, also, some of his articles surveyed in the National History Museum collection. The survey results show that in this period Gustavo Barroso went on to develop in his writings an eugenic and authoritarian political vision, later, in his integralist phase, linked strongly to an anti-Semitic view.

Para Francisco Gustavo Restrepo G., el conocimiento y no la plata, sería el criterio de autoridad

Fondo Margaritainés Restrepo

Diálogo con Gustavo Gordillo sobre Ambiente y seguridad alimentaria

Diálogo con Gustavo Gordillo sobre Ambiente y seguridad alimentaria

La comunicación política en la administración de Gustavo Petro 2012-2014

El objetivo central de esta tesis es analizar cómo ha sido la comunicación política de la administración de Gustavo Petro entre 2012 y 2014, determinando el nivel de democratización presente en esta. Desde sus inicios, la alcaldía de Gustavo Petro mostro una gran preocupación por el ámbito de comunicación, sin embargo, como se puede ver en el plan de desarrollo, le apunta a una comunicación participativa en donde la ciudadanía haga parte de la construcción, diseño e implementación de los programas de gobierno. Por lo tanto se parte de la hipótesis de que la comunicación política durante esta administración ha sido democrática en tanto que ha permitido hacer partícipe a la ciudadanía de su propio desarrollo, a través del dialogo constante. Lo anterior será visto desde una perspectiva teórica sobre la comunicación política democrática, para lo cual las variables direccionalidad y centralidad serán claves.

Knowledge-based development of cities : a myth or reality?

Urban development in the 21st decade of the 21st century has faced many challenges ranging from rapid to shrinking urbanisation, from emerging knowledge economy to global division of labour and from globalisation to climate change. Along with with these challenges new concepts, such as essentialism, environmentalism and dematerialism, are emerged and started to influence the way urban development plans are prepared and visions for the development of cities are made. Beyond this, scholars, practitioners and decision-makers have also started to discuss the need for an new urban planning and development approach in order to achieve a development that is sustainable and knowledge-based. Limited successful examples of alternative planning and development approaches showcased potentials of moving towards a new plan-making mindset in the era of knowledge economy. This paper presents a new urban planning and development approach that is taking application ground in many parts of the globe, namely knowledge-based urban development. After providing the theoretical foundation and conceptual framework of knowledge-based urban development the paper discusses whether knowledge-based development of cities is a myth or a reality.