Néspolo, Jimena. Ejercicios de pudor : sujeto y escritura en la narrativa de Antonio Di Benedetto. Buenos Aires, Adriana Hidalgo, 2004, 390 p.

Fil: Niemetz, Diego. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letra

The liberal friend, representations of jewishness and jews in Borges’ texts

El artículo se propone indagar acerca del modo en que el imaginario etni-cista, en relación a las representaciones de lo judío, es incorporado y naturalizado en la obra de Jorge L. Borges, autor asociado con el ala liberal del campo literario argentino (sector que hizo suyas las banderas del cosmopolitismo y, particularmente, del filosemitismo). Específicamente estudiaremos cómo es tratado lo judío (personajes de ese origen o temas relacionados con ese grupo étnico), en textos producidos por Borges hacia 1949 y 1967 y apreciaremos de qué manera el ideario antisemita es reproducido por el escritor. A partir de los deslindes teóricos de Van Dijk y de Bourdieu en relación al pensamiento sustancialista, al sentido común y al racismo de la elite simbólica, deseamos indagar cómo ciertos estereotipos resultan cristalizados hasta tal punto en el ideario social, que se vuelven marcos de referencia incluso para autores que los rechazan abiertamente. En gran medida, este esfuerzo apunta a la necesidad de desnudar los mecanismos de naturalización de los que se valen los autores para incluir elaboraciones del sentido común que se materializan tanto a nivel narrativo como lingüístico.The following article intends to inquire about the way in which the ethinicist imaginary, in relation to representations of Jewishness, is incorporated and naturalized in the works of Jorge L. Borges, author associated with the liberal wing of the Argentinean literary field (which endorsed the flags of cosmopolitanism and, particularly, of philo-Semitism). Specifically, we will study how Jewishness is dealt with (characters from that origin or topics related to that ethnic group), in texts produced by Borges towards 1949 and 1967, and we will examine how the anti-Semitic ideology is reproduced by the writer. On the basis of the theoretical definitions of Van Dijk and Bordieu in relation to substantialist thinking, to common sense and to racism of the symbolic elite, we wish to investigate how certain stereotypes become crystallized to such an extent in the social ideology, that they turn to be reference frameworks even for authors that openly reject them. To a large extent, this endeavor aims to the need to strip down the mechanisms of naturalization used by authors to include elaborations of common sense that are materialized both on narrative and linguistic levels.Fil: Niemetz, Diego. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentin

Kafka en la obra de Antonio di Benedetto

La influencia de Kafka en los escritores argentinos del siglo XX es bien conocida y ha sido extenspmente estudiada especialmente en los autores centrales del canon literario, como son Borges y Sábato. Sin embargo. otros autores en los que se manifiesta dicha influencia son sistemáticamente excluidos de los estudios. Entre ellos se encuentra Antonio Di Benedetto. En el presente trabajo se analiza la presencia de una serie de motivos, caracterizados por la crítica como típicamente kajkianos en la novela más reconocida del mendocino: Zama. De esta manera se apunta a completar el panorama de la recepción de Kafka en la Argentina haciendo hincapié en la experiencia regional, que por su contexto especifico de producción es mucho más afin a la de Kafka que la de los escritores canónicos. Por otra parte, la detección y análisis de esos motivos constituyen una poderosa herramienta para el estudio de la obra dibenedettiana. pues no se trata meramente de la repetición de tópicos consagrados. sino de la manifestación de una experiencia muy personal del mundo.Kafka's influence on 20th century Argentine writers is well known and has been studied in canonical authors like Borges and Sabato. Yet, other writers who share this influence are systematically exc/uded from research. Among them we can mention Antonio Di Benedetto. This paper analyzes a series of typically Kajkian motives in Zama, the best well known novel by the Mendocinian author. Thus, we attempt to complete the overview of the reception of Kafka in Argentina. emphasizing the regional experience which, due to its specific context of production, is c/oser to Kafka than that of canonical writers. In addition, the detection and analysis of those motives constitute a powerful toollor the study of Di Benedettian works, since they are not only a repetition of well known topics. but a manifestation of la personal cosmovision.Fil: Niemetz, Diego. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letra

Alejandro Meter y Ariana Huberman (comp.). Memoria y representación: configuraciones culturales y literarias en el imaginario judío latinoamericano. 1 ed. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2006.

Fil: Niemetz, Diego. Universidad Nacional de Cuy

Promoting a deliberative system for global peace and security: how to reform the United Nations’ decision-making procedures

This thesis offers a concrete and practically applicable answer to the question of how to increase the legitimacy of the UN’s decision-making procedures on issues of global peace and security. In order to provide this answer, it connects the minutia of institutional design with the abstract principals of democratic theory in a systematic and reproducible method, thereby enabling a clear normative evaluation of even the smallest technical detail of reform. The thesis elaborates criteria for the evaluation of both the normative desirability as well as the political feasibility of individual reform proposals and applies these to a compilation of all the relevant proposals in four issue- areas: Security Council (SC) membership and voting, SC working methods, relations between the SC and the General Assembly, and relations between the SC and civil society. This evaluation demonstrates that there is a range of feasible proposals for reform that could improve the SC’s accountability both to the GA and to the general public, that could increase the opportunities for effective input from the UN membership and NGOs, and that would thereby promote the UN’s decision-making procedures on issues of global peace and security as a more inclusive, coherent and decisive deliberative system

The Aesthetics of a Magical Realism in Mujica Lainez’s Early Work

Sandro Abate ha propuesto encuadrar la novela El laberinto de Manuel Mujica Lainez bajo la estética del Realismo Mágico latinoamericano. Según Abate este enfoque es posible debido a que la novela respeta algunas de las más importantes premisas de dicha poética, entre ellas el “efecto de encantamiento” gracias al cual es posible evitar las categorías racionales como únicos medios para conocer la realidad. En este trabajo nos proponemos hacer extensiva la valiosa observación de Abate a obras de la producción temprana del escritor. Consideraremos ciertos aspectos de Don Galaz de Buenos Aires, su primera novela publicada, y algunos cuentos de Aquí vivieron y Misteriosa Buenos Aires, en los que pueden detectarse, en diferente grado de desarrollo, características atribuibles al Realismo Mágico. Esta línea en los estudios sobre la obra de Manuel Mujica Lainez nos permitirá proponer una serie de cuestiones que podrían resultar enriquecedoras, entre ellas: la necesidad de profundizar en ciertas categorías tales como el mestizaje, la maravilla del espacio y la realidad americanas desde la óptica de los autores argentinos; la utilización de un lenguaje especial para describir la maravilla; la posibilidad de detectar más obras y autores argentinos que respondan a la estética del Realismo Mágico y de incluirlos en una corriente americana más amplia. En cuanto a los estudios específicos sobre el autor, la corroboración de nuestra hipótesis permitirá demostrar su gran capacidad de renovación, frecuentemente ignorada.Sandro Abate has suggested framing the novel El Laberinto by Manuel Mujica Lainez within the aesthetics of Latin American Magical Realism. According to Abate, this approach is possible as the novel abides by some of the main premises of that poetics, such as the “enchantment effect” making it possible to avoid rational categories as the only means to know reality. This paper is aimed at extending this extremely valuable contribution of Abate’s to the author’s early work. Certain aspects of Don Galaz de Buenos Aires, his first published novel and some of the short stories in Aquí vivieron and Misteriosa Buenos Aires showing –to different degrees of development– characteristics attributable to Magical Realism, have been considered. This line within the studies on Manuel Mujica Lainez’s work will allow for the rise of a series of issues that might be enriching. These issues include: the need to go deeper into certain categories such as Latin American miscegenation, marvelous space and reality from Argentinean authors’ standpoint; the use of a special language to describe marvel; the possibility to identify more Argentinean works and authors reflecting the aesthetics of Magical Realism and include them in a broader Latin American school of thought. Regarding specific studies on the author, hypothesis confirmation will serve to prove his frequently ignored capacity of renewal

Planned Chaos in Electrical Engineering Education

This paper presents the idea to intentionally introduce planned chaos into electrical engineering lectures and lab courses to improve students’ learning success. The reason to present this idea are several personal experiences in daily teaching. If students experience some uncertainty in their study program, it is seen that they have higher challenges and therefore higher learning success in managing uncertain situations. In these ways, students acquire methodical and social competences to deal with uncertainty and achieve productive results in an unstable working environment. If, however, the chaos is too large, students are over-strained with the situation, distracted from the actual learning targets and consequently learning results will be worse, drop-out rates will increase and they will be frustrated. The beneficial level of uncertainty depends on the student culture, academic progress and personality characteristics. The competence to deal with complex situations is essential for later professional life where unexpected circumstances occur regularly. Introducing planned chaos into lectures and lab courses has not to be confused with a missing didactic concept and is no justification for a bad preparation. Planned chaos is a demanding concept for professors to find the right implementation for an optimized learning outcome. These described findings are experienced from practical work and student evaluations.Fuhrmann, T.; Niemetz, M. (2020). Planned Chaos in Electrical Engineering Education. En 6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. (30-05-2020):95-102. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd20.2020.10989OCS9510230-05-202

Transdisciplinary Bachelor Course Connecting Business and Electrical Engineering

[EN] The OTH Regensburg has a broad variety of study programs in technical, business, social and health sciences. Up to now there is no integral connection in the bachelor curricula between business and technical faculties except for some small subjects. The scope of this project is to develop a new course specialization which connects engineering and business thinking. Electrical engineering students should learn basics of business science and how managers think. Business students should vice versa learn fundamentals of engineering and how engineers solve problems. Students from both faculties work together in projects where they act like start-up companies developing a new product and bringing it into the market. It is seen a transdisciplinary effect: These projects gain innovative results between the disciplines compared to student projects of one isolated discipline. Evaluation results from the first two cohorts indicate high student satisfaction, high learning success as well as directions for further improvement.http://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/HEAD/HEAD18Fuhrmann, T.; Niemetz, M. (2018). Transdisciplinary Bachelor Course Connecting Business and Electrical Engineering. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 655-663. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD18.2018.8056OCS65566