Decomposition of Electromagnetic Q and P Media

Two previously studied classes of electromagnetic media, labeled as those of Q media and P media, are decomposed according to the natural decomposition introduced by Hehl and Obukhov. Six special cases based on either non-existence or sole existence of the three Hehl-Obukhov components, are defined for both medium classes.Comment: 18 page

In Practice, v. 7, no. 1, fall 2006

Indice Autores Presentación Capítulo 1. La trastienda de la Historia Regional Capítulo 2. Los estados provinciales. Una conceptualización provisoria Capítulo 3. Poder político y estrategias de reproducción en los territorios de Neuquén y Río Negro, Argentina (1983-2003) Capítulo 4. La dinámica articulación de redes sociales y políticas Capítulo 5. El estado-partido neuquino. Modos de legitimación y Políticas Sociales Capítulo 6. Asistencia Social y políticas alimentarias: tensión entre legitimación y control social Capítulo 7. El proceso de construcción de la ciudadanía. El caso del municipio de Cutral Co, Neuquén Capítulo 8. Neuquén como campo de protesta Capítulo 9. El movimiento estudiantil universitario del Comahue (1969-1976) Capítulo 10. Asociaciones empresarias federativas en Neuquén. Avances y retrocesos Capítulo 11. El modelo productivo de provincia y la política neuquin

Comment on: Reply to comment on `Perfect imaging without negative refraction'

Whether or not perfect imaging is obtained in the mirrored version of Maxwell's fisheye lens is debated in the comment/reply sequence [Blaikie-2010njp, Leonhardt-2010njp] discussing Leonhardt's original paper [Leonhardt-2009njp]. Here we show that causal solutions can be obtained without the need for an "active localized drain", contrary to the claims in [Leonhardt-2010njp].Comment: v2 (added MEEP ctl file), v3 (publisher statement

Alberto L’africano o l’impressione moraviana dell’esotismo ai tempi del postcoloniale

The paper deals with Alberto Moravia’s ‘images’ of Africa. The writer visited the continent only in his middle-age, showing immediately a deep enthusiasm for (as he wrote) “the most beautiful thing existing in the world”. Avoiding the conventional paths trodden by tourists, Moravia was able to describe nature and men, skies and rites without any prejudice, discovering with the sensitivity of a great writer that Africa is that Otherness – maybe the Androgynous – with which Europeans have always, consciously and unconsciously, been struggling

Politics and power in Neuquén, Argentina (1958 1999)

History goes through new spaces renewing its proposals, reviewing concepts, and creating new and more rigorous instruments of understanding and with the participation of other areas of knowledge. In this complex and dense territory, our intention is to approach some considerations about the shapes that politics and power formation acquire in a peripheral, Mediterranean Argentine province and that is lately introduced in the capitalistic development : Neuquén2. The period that is presented here goes from the moment Neuquén is converted into province in 1958 and the 90´s, in which the accumulation regime is defined in the country, and the local state must readjust its relations with politics, society, and economy due to the crack of the welfare policy that is extended for two decades

¿Pornografía feminista, pornografía antirracista y pornografía antiglobalización? Para una crítica del proceso de pornificación cultural

Working together to (re)produce what has been called “pornification” are the market, popular culture and sectors within the academic sphere, even some forms of feminism. This article sets out a critical (re)vision of this phenomenon, together with the alliance between sexualisation-transgression-market-university. First it traces the genealogy of this situation, starting from the “sexual revolution” of the sixties and its capitalist and patriarchal re-channeling, continuing with the “sex wars” of the eighties, and finally arriving at the pornified culture of the new millennium and the rise of porn studies. In a second part, the article proposes approaching the process (and success) of cultural pornification in relation to neoliberalism, understood as a mode of governmentality that is profoundly gendered. It introduces a series of critical concepts we consider useful for future feminist analyses of this complex landscape, notable among which are: “feminism disarticulated”, “sexual entrepreneur” and “postfeminist biologism”. In the conclusion we pose some critical questions about the possibility and desirability of feminist pornography