Neoliberalism in Argentina and Chile: common antecedents, divergent paths

This paper contrasts the experiences of neoliberalism in Argentina and Chile, exploring why two countries that implemented apparently similar market reforms came to different stances on marketization: a post-neoliberal politics in Argentina, and a tempered neoliberalism in Chile that has only recently come under scrutiny. The paper traces the common antecedents that inspired these reforms and the different outcomes and reactions that they produced. In contrast to recent literature, which emphasizes one or another explanatory factor, this article offers a synthetic comparison of the historical, political, economic, and ideological factors in play, helping to understand how capitalists achieved a hegemonic class position in Chile and not in Argentina

‘VALENTONES’, ‘ALCALDES DE BARRIO’ AND PARADIGMS OF CIVILITY.CONFLICTS AND ACCOMODATIONS IN SANTIAGO OF CHILE, XVIII CENTURY.

Este trabajo estudia el universo polisémico de las prácticas y los discursos de violencia, civilidad y control social que circulaban en la ciudad de Santiago a lo largo del siglo XVIII. Al analizar las tramas de significación de las narraciones de violencia interpersonal, relacionadas con la construcción de una masculinidad hegemónica y amparadas en los discursos del honor, el estudio explora la pervivencia de antiguas prácticas de venganza privada. Asimismo, examina las tensiones y negociaciones establecidas entre estas y las estrategias de control social emprendidas por el Estado borbónico y ejercidas a través de una microfísica de control cotidiano, encarnada tanto en las funciones de los Alcaldes de barrio como en la socialización de un paradigma de civilidad. Lo último permite someter a evaluación las fisuras y las fortalezas de los fundamentos de poder de la administración borbónica.This work studies the polisemous universe of the practices and the speeches of violence, civility and social control that circulated in the city of Santiago throughout XVIII century. When analyzing plots of meaning of the narrations of interpersonal violence, related to the construction of a hegemonic masculinity and protected in speeches of honour, the study explores the survival of old practices of private revenge. Also, it examines the tensions and negotiations established between these and the strategies of social control undertaken by the Bourbons’ state and exerted through a microphysics of daily control, incarnated as much in the functions of the ‘Alcaldes de barrio’ like in the socialization of a civility paradigm. The latest allows putting under evaluation the fissures and the strengths of the foundations of the Bourbon’s administration

El lector-consumidor en el espacio del marketing y la publicidad. Relevancia de la ficción para un ideario de emancipación

En el presente artículo, me serviré del ejemplo de las Páginas Amarillas de los Hauts-de-Seine para tratar la problemática de la inacción2 que ciertos regímenes textuales e imaginarios imponen a la subjetividad contemporánea. El pensamiento crítico, por su parte, afronta el carácter disperso del saber actual encarnando su ilogismo constitutivo, ampliando sus operaciones a nuevas formas de discurso.I will consider in this paper the example of the Yellow Pages of the Hauts-de-Seine in order to treat the problem of the inaction that some textual and imaginary regimes impose on contemporary subjectivity. Critical thought confronts the disperse character of actual knowledge by incarnating its constitutive illogism, expanding its operations towards new forms of discourse

Viabilidad de los materiales termoelectricos

Treballs Finals del Màster d’Energies Renovables i Sostenibilitat Energètica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2013-2014, Tutora: Dra. Mercè Segarra RubíThermoelectric materials are able to take advantage of the waste heat in power plants and convert it into additional electricity; as well as to generate a thermal gradient using an electric current. Due to those characteristics thermoelectric materials are considered as a clean energy. Thermoelectric modules have a low efficiency (15% maximum), and actual lines of research are looking for higher efficiency materials. However, economic and sustainability factors are not taken into account in those investigations, and those can be critical for a large scale implantation. For example, it makes no sense to study materials whose components are not produced in necessary quantities, or even very expensive materials. In this project, some materials efficiency/cost relations are analyzed in order to choose which of them is a potential candidate for a large scale application, considering information about elements annual production or recycling potential. From this research in can be deduced that Zn4Sb3 is a good option if application’s temperature is between 300 K and 700 K due to its cheapness. On the other hand, for high temperature applications (1000 K), silicon-germanium alloys seem to be the best choice

Is there a right to a to have children? Chilean constitutional la on autonomy and access to assisted reproductive techniques

En Chile existe una sofi sticada oferta de técnicas de reproducción asistida (TRA) que se ha desarrollado sin que exista regulación estatal. El status constitucional del embrión preimplantacional es incierto, al existir fallos contradictorios en la materia del Tribunal Constitucional Chileno y de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, además de opiniones divergentes en la doctrina y jurisprudencia sobre los términos de incorporación del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos en el ordenamiento interno. El artículo afirma que el derecho a tener hijos mediante TRA se adscribe a las disposiciones constitucionales y de tratados internacionales que reconocen la autonomía personal, el libre e igualitario acceso a las acciones de salud, el derecho a beneficiarse del progreso científico y el derecho a formar una familia y a la protección de esta. Siendo un derecho prima facie protegido por la Constitución, admite limitaciones y da lugar a obligaciones positivas por parte del EstadoChile has a sophisticated offer of assisted reproductive techniques (TRA) which has developed in the absence of state regulations. The constitutional status of the embryo before implantation is uncertain, due to the coexistence of contradictory decisions of the Chilean Constitutional Court and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as well as an ongoing debate regarding the terms of incorporation of international human rights into the domestic legal system. The author asserts that the right to have children using TRA is protected under the constitutional and international human rights provisions guaranteeing personal autonomy, the free and equal access to health care, the right to benefit from scientific progress and the right to form a family and to its protection. As a right protected prima facie by the Constitution, it allows for limitations and gives rise to positive state obligation

Un malestar indefinible. Sobre la subjetividad contemporánea

La escritura de Gastón Molina es atenta. Un minucioso y pausado proceso de narración filosófica