El contexto estético y la crítica de la cultura de masas de Theodor W. Adorno

Texto base de la sesión del 10 de marzo.Depto. de Filosofía y SociedadFac. de FilosofíaFALSEunpu

La violencia como insignia y sello. Reconsiderando las relaciones entre racionalidad instrumental, derecho y pedagogía en Walter Benjamin

Partiendo de la crítica de la racionalidad instrumental de las instituciones jurídicas, políticas y sociales que walter benjamin sanciona en su crítica de la violencia («zur kritik der gewalt», 1921), se tratará en estas páginas de reconstruir algunos potThe purpose of this article is to reconstruct some elements in walter benjamin's critique of the instrumental rationality peculiar to social, juridical and political institutions («critique of violence», 1921). With regard to this, these pages are to ana

Sobre ciudad y postmodernidad (Entrevista con Revista Aldiri, 2010)

Versión castellana de una entrevista a Eduardo Maura Zorita con la Revista vasca de arquitectura ALDIRI, publicada en otoño de 2010 en euskera

Romanticismo y crítica inmanente en la teoría crítica del joven Walter Benjamin

Ponencias de los tres talleres del Congreso "El fondo de la historia: Idealismo, Romanticismo y sus Repercusiones" celebrado del 22 al 24 de noviembre de 2010 en la Universidad Carlos III de Madri

Morituri te salutant: una aproximación filosófica a las representaciones del mal en la literatura reciente

Partiendo de la pregunta clásica por el origen del mal y sus determinaciones, se trataría aquí de analizar las representaciones del mal en la obra de aquellos escritores (Littell, Amis, Sebald) que, en nuestros días, mucho después de Adorno, recurren a la categoría filosófica del mal y a cierta estética del horror como motivos genuinos del impulso literario.Taking evil, its origins and classical features as starting point, the aim of these pages consists of analysing representations of evil in the work of those contemporary writers (Littell, Amis, Sebald) who, way after Adorno, use the philosophical category evil and certain aesthetics of the ugly as legitimate motifs of their literary work

Proxy surrogate reconstructions for Europe and the estimation of their uncertainties

Combining proxy information and climate model simulations reconciles these sources of information about past climates. This, in turn, strengthens our understanding of past climatic changes. The analogue or proxy surrogate reconstruction method is a computationally cheap data assimilation approach, which searches in a pool of simulated climate states the best fit to proxy data. We use the approach to reconstruct European summer mean temperature from the 13th century until present using the Euro 2k set of proxy records and a pool of global climate simulation output fields. Our focus is on quantifying the uncertainty of the reconstruction, because previous applications of the analogue method rarely provided uncertainty ranges. We show several ways of estimating reconstruction uncertainty for the analogue method, which take into account the non-climate part of the variability in each proxy record. In general, our reconstruction agrees well at multi-decadal timescales with the Euro 2k reconstruction, which was conducted with two different statistical methods and no information from model simulations. In both methodological approaches, the decades around the year 1600 CE were the coldest. However, the approaches disagree on the warmest pre-industrial periods. The reconstructions from the analogue method also represent the local variations of the observed proxies. The diverse uncertainty estimates obtained from our analogue approaches can be locally larger or smaller than the estimates from the Euro 2k effort. Local uncertainties of the temperature reconstructions tend to be large in areas that are poorly covered by the proxy records. Uncertainties highlight the ambiguity of field-based reconstructions constrained by a limited set of proxies

Pseudo-proxy evaluation of climate field reconstruction methods of North Atlantic climate based on an annually resolved marine proxy network

Two statistical methods are tested to reconstruct the interannual variations in past sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the North Atlantic (NA) Ocean over the past millennium based on annually resolved and absolutely dated marine proxy records of the bivalve mollusk Arctica islandica. The methods are tested in a pseudo-proxy experiment (PPE) setup using state-of-the-art climate models (CMIP5 Earth system models) and reanalysis data from the COBE2 SST data set. The methods were applied in the virtual reality provided by global climate simulations and reanalysis data to reconstruct the past NA SSTs using pseudo-proxy records that mimic the statistical characteristics and network of Arctica islandica. The multivariate linear regression methods evaluated here are principal component regression and canonical correlation analysis. Differences in the skill of the climate field reconstruction (CFR) are assessed according to different calibration periods and different proxy locations within the NA basin. The choice of the climate model used as a surrogate reality in the PPE has a more profound effect on the CFR skill than the calibration period and the statistical reconstruction method. The differences between the two methods are clearer for the MPI-ESM model due to its higher spatial resolution in the NA basin. The pseudo-proxy results of the CCSM4 model are closer to the pseudo-proxy results based on the reanalysis data set COBE2. Conducting PPEs using noise-contaminated pseudo-proxies instead of noise-free pseudo-proxies is important for the evaluation of the methods, as more spatial differences in the reconstruction skill are revealed. Both methods are appropriate for the reconstruction of the temporal evolution of the NA SSTs, even though they lead to a great loss of variance away from the proxy sites. Under reasonable assumptions about the characteristics of the non-climate noise in the proxy records, our results show that the marine network of Arctica islandica can be used to skillfully reconstruct the spatial patterns of SSTs at the eastern NA basin