Gramática aymara : sobre la base de una edición antigua / por el P. Juan Antonio García S. J.

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Corporalidad presencia escénica y cosmovisión andina el personaje del Rucuyaya

La presente investigación ha tenido por objeto el estudio de la noción de corporeidad, como un concepto evolucionado de la idea de cuerpo; la reflexión sobre la dimensión de la corporeidad nos llevó a articularla con el vocablo siwa presente progresivo de la lengua aymara que significa “estar estando” e implica la conjunción del tiempo-espacio habitado del ser humano, lugar teórico actoral que recoge nítidamente el concepto de “presencia”. A partir de este primer vínculo, realizamos un tejido conceptual alrededor de este tema que ha implicado reflexionar, cómo el empleo de los conceptos anteriores se concretaban en trabajo del actor; emerge de esta manera, lo que llamamos en la investigación cuerpo siwa: un cuerpo que habita celebrativamente la acción que realiza. El cuerpo celebrado o cuerpo siwa sirvió para la construcción de una “dramaturgia actoral” que verifica la inversión total del cuerpo en la acción que realiza, confirmando dicha efectuación en el personaje rucuyaya de la fiesta popular andina de las parroquias de Alangasí y El Cabo de las provincias de Pichincha y Azuay, respectivamente. Creemos haber demostrado, la validez académica de una técnica actoral nacida de la filosofía andina que plantea una vía distinta para la formación del actor. En conclusión, debemos agregar que el presente estudio abre un umbral investigativo al hecho de profundizar, por otra vía epistemológica, el concepto de la presencia y organicidad en el actor.

Experiences with an Object-Oriented, Multi-Stage Language

Metaphor is a multi-stage programming language extension to an imperative, object-oriented language in the style of C# or Java. This paper discusses some issues we faced when applying multi-stage language design concepts to an imperative base language and run-time environment. The issues range from dealing with pervasive references and open code to garbage collection and implementing cross-stage persistence.

The Coming of Post-reflexive Society: Commodification and Language in Digital Capitalism

Language is a unique aspect of human communication because it can be used to discuss itself in its own terms. For this reason, human societies potentially have superior capacities of co-ordination, reflexive self-correction, and innovation than other animal, physical or cybernetic systems. However, this analysis also reveals that language is interconnected with the economically and technologically mediated social sphere and hence is vulnerable to abstraction, objectification, reification, and therefore ideology – all of which are antithetical to its reflexive function, whilst paradoxically being a fundamental part of it. In particular, in capitalism, language is increasingly commodified within the social domains created and affected by ubiquitous communication technologies. The advent of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ implicates exchangeable forms of thought (language) as the fundamental commodities of this emerging system. The historical point at which a ‘knowledge economy’ emerges, then, is the critical point at which thought itself becomes a commodified ‘thing’, and language becomes its “objective” means of exchange. However, the processes by which such commodification and objectification occurs obscures the unique social relations within which these language commodities are produced. The latest economic phase of capitalism – the knowledge economy – and the obfuscating trajectory which accompanies it, we argue, is destroying the reflexive capacity of language particularly through the process of commodification. This can be seen in that the language practices that have emerged in conjunction with digital technologies are increasingly non-reflexive and therefore less capable of self-critical, conscious change.

Pattern-based analysis of EAI languages : the case of the business modelling language

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a challenging area that is attracting growing attention from the software industry and the research community. A landscape of languages and techniques for EAI has emerged and is continuously being enriched with new proposals from different software vendors and coalitions. However, little or no effort has been dedicated to systematically evaluate and compare these languages and techniques. The work reported in this paper is a first step in this direction. It presents an in-depth analysis of a language, namely the Business Modeling Language, specifically developed for EAI. The framework used for this analysis is based on a number of workflow and communication patterns. This framework provides a basis for evaluating the advantages and drawbacks of EAI languages with respect to recurrent problems and situations.