Publications
Articles
Trauma is in the Response: Towards a Post-Causal Perspective in the Definition of Psychological Trauma (in Spanish)
Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso
The concept of psychological trauma is polysemic and remains a subject of debate among academics and researchers. In this article, I argue that this view is inadequate as it fails to sufficiently explain significant trauma-related effects that present anomalies for the causal position. I defend two claims. First, that in defining psychological trauma, we must move beyond the need for a strong causal relationship dependent on the traumatic event (TE) and shift towards a weak causal perspective. Second…
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Memory and Perception in the Autobiographical Interview: An Episodic Simulation Adapting in Real Time to Context (in Spanish)
Revista de HumanidaEstud.filos no.64 Medellín July/Dec. 2021 Epub Sep 22, 2021
Perception and memory are usually considered independent capacities, with the belief that perception only influences memory during encoding. However, in autobiographical interviews focused on oral history and historical memory, interviewees select, adapt, and complete their memories to create different versions of them. This article argues that this dynamic is a consequence of the simulative nature of episodic memory and the interviewees’ use of perceptual information to construct and adjust their memories to an autobiographical discourse, aiming to fulfil a communicative purpose…
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The Ideological Impact of the French School on the Argentine Army (in Spanish)
Persona y Sociedad, Vol. 25 Núm. 2 (2011)
In Argentina, there was a powerful French influence that profoundly altered the military tactics and ideology of the Army between 1957 and 1963. These foreign theories, imported to the Southern Cone, originated from lessons learned by the French Army during the wars in Algeria and Indochina. Based on these experiences, French officers developed combat techniques to counter the then-novel ‘guerrilla warfare’ of rebel groups, which were later taught to Argentine military personnel…
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Mestizaje at Tepeyac and the Discursive Construction of a Hierophany at the Beginning of the Postcolonial Awakening (in Spanish)
Espaço E Cultura, n. 34 (2013) Julho-Dezembro
This article analyses the phenomenon of cultural mestizaje surrounding the creation of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It suggests that the reinterpretation of the Tepeyac Hill, where Tonantzin was originally worshipped, constitutes an event of meaning-making within the context of mestizaje. This process incorporates the discursive construction of the hierophany around three elements: the sacred object, the place of worship, and the ritual of adoration…
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Creator of Worlds: The Performative Effect of Language in Autobiographical Narration and the Re-signification of Identity. (in Spanish)
Memorias desde el sur. Reflexiones y propuestas de jóvenes investigadores sobre procesos de memoria en Colombia y Argentina
This text reflects on the biographical interview as a source for the work of memory construction and oral history, as well as its product, the narrative. The role of language in the shaping of narrative identity is analysed, arguing that in autobiographical narration, not only is an identity discourse communicated, but it is also created during the event. The narrative contains elements that make it partially fictional and contribute to the construction of meaning in memory and historical consciousness…
Chapters
Prologue: Elucidation of Hegel’s Aesthetics (in Spanish)
Dilucidación de la Estética de Hegel. Una introducción a sus conceptos estéticos, 2013
Majestic, intrepid, and overwhelming; before the beating of the timpani completely ceased, and the cry of the horn faded away, and the breath of the voices was extinguished, and the vibration of the strings wore out, and the enchantment of the clarinet broke, and the beautiful lament of the flutes died away; before the sound of the orchestra finished dancing, beautiful and irreverent, among the audience who witnessed the miracle of that night in May 1824 at the Kärntnertor Theatre in Vienna; before the crowd, intoxicated by beauty, erupted in applause for that German composer, so deaf that…
Phil / Sci Communication
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Philosophy Supplement of La Jornada Aguascalientes
The Game of Thinking (in Spanish) (01/07/2010)
I refuse to forget that once I looked up at the sky and wondered where the world was contained, where God could be found, and how the clouds had come to be up there…
Under the Carpet (in Spanish) (02/09/2010)
A few days ago, I was travelling by taxi through the chaotic Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, when I heard a person in the radio speaking about «Rosario, the Argentinian Chicago»…
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