El presente ensayo examina los modos en que la novela Cadáver exquisito (2017), de la escritora argentina Agustina Bazterrica, habita y desafía la lógica capitalista de la cadena de montaje a través de estrategias literarias que a la vez encarnan y cuestionan el neoliberalismo exacerbado. El trabajo inicia con el rastreo de una propuesta teórico-crítica sobre trayectos literarios de la carne (Giorgi 2014) para luego analizar cómo el texto de Bazterrica dialoga con los conceptos de necroescritura (Rivera Garza 2013), mal de archivo (Derrida 1997) y montaje literario (Benjamin 2004a, 2004b). Este abordaje revela el modo en que diversas estrategias literarias —incluyendo el ensamblaje de escenas desmembradas, el uso del collage verbal, la función performativa del lenguaje, el desplazamiento metafórico-metonímico de las palabras y la tensión generada por eufemismos— socavan la práctica mecanicista y mercantilizante de la producción en serie de cuerpos y lenguajes. El artículo cuestiona, así, la interpretación de Cadáver exquisito como alegoría necropolítica, explorándola, en cambio, como dispositivo estético-político que tensiona las relaciones entre carne y palabra, interrumpiendo los principios rectores de acumulación y violencia que sustentan al sistema capitalista.

The objective of this study is to assess the effects of the configuration, size, and density of family and personal networks on women’s current fertility in Ouagadougou. The association between women’s reproductive histories and their social networks was evaluated using Poisson regression models and fairly original data on these networks. The study is based on three family configurations: ‘Restricted’ (children and friends), ‘Kinship’ (blood or marital relatives), and ‘Sibling’ (brothers and sisters). Results show that the type of family configuration has a significant effect on current fertility. ‘Kinship’ and ‘Sibling’ configurations are associated with higher current fertility, while the ‘Restricted’ configuration is associated with lower fertility. Regarding the size and density of the network, the findings indicate that network size and density are negatively associated with current fertility. These results highlight the need to take social networks into account in strategies aimed at controlling fertility in the city of Ouagadougou.

The women who have participated in memory-building projects in Colombia have shaped the formation of collective memory in important ways in official and informal projects. They have emphasized and highlighted their gendered experiences of the Colombian conflict and gained valuable experience working with and inside organizations. These experiences have provided women with a sense of feminist empowerment. The case of Medellín is particularly interesting because the city’s women have been engaged in constructing collective memory for decades, long before the ratification of the 2016 Peace Accord. As such, these women had a valuable skill set that they were able to employ in collaboration with the official transitional justice mechanisms supported by the state after 2016. The experience of having their voices recognized and acknowledged has raised the feminist consciousness of the women of Medellín involved with these projects. The Medellín case is somewhat distinct from other Latin American cases of women peace and human rights activists because Colombian women have had several decades to learn the importance of including and even centering their intersectional gendered perspectives. The women of Medellín are not unique among Latin American women, but they have had a significant head start.

Este ensayo revisa las siguientes películas:

La conquista de las ruinas. Dir. Eduardo Gómez. Prod. Ariel Soto, Facundo Escudero Salinas y Nicolás Munzel Camaño. Bolivia, 2020. 88 mins. Disponible en Boliviacine.com.

Algo quema. Dir. Mauricio Alfredo Ovando. Prod. Juan Álvarez Durán. Bolivia, 2018. 77 mins. Disponible en Boliviacine.com.

La bala no mata. Dir. Gabriela Paz. Prod. Catalina Razzini Zambrana. Bolivia, 2012. 57 mins. Disponible en Boliviacine.com.

My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew. Dir. Rick Tejada-Flores. Prod. Rick Tejada-Flores. United States, 2017. 56 mins. Disponible en DVD.

This paper treats new data about small mammals from the Chongphadae Cave Site, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Seven samples from Layers 8–10 and 12–15 included 161 tooth fossils of small mammals. The composition of small mammal assemblage is 3 orders, 5 families, and 11 species, which are 1 insectivore taxon, 1 lagomorph taxon, and 9 rodent taxa. The community development is distinguished into five stages (62.122–19.630 ka), and stage I is characterized by the dominance of xerophilous elements, including Myospalax epsilanus, Microtus brandti, and Cricetulus barabensis. Alternating between mesophilous and xerophilous elements, the last stage (stage IV) of community development is characterized by the existence of only mesophilous elements, such as Ochotona alpina and Erinaceus sp. The dynamics of small mammal communities of the Chongphadae Cave Site demonstrate that alternation between mesophilous and xerophilous elements during the Late Pleistocene contributed to the formation of the modern mosaic landscape consisting of forests, grasslands, and riverside.

A Primeira República (1889–1930) é considerada um divisor de águas da história cultural brasileira graças ao modernismo. No entanto, muito do que foi escrito sobre o período deriva diretamente das concepções nacionalistas dos modernistas, que estabeleceram o paradigma da identidade nacional que ainda hoje é válido, o que leva à desconsideração dos trabalhos da geração que lhes é anterior. O objetivo deste artigo é problematizar emergência de um campo artístico autônomo no Brasil a partir de uma análise das tomadas de posição dos atores da época frente ao par “nacionalismo” e “cosmopolitismo”. O argumento central é que esse período marca o começo da ascensão de um regime artístico moderno no Brasil, que tem como base a ideia de autonomização de campo profissional, que se realiza em um espaço artístico e literário nacional secundário dentro do espaço mundial. Assim, para se autonomizar e proclamar sua liberdade estética, as artes no Brasil devem se libertar não somente da dominação política, mas também da dominação internacional.

This study addresses how AI-generated images of war are changing the making of memory. Instead of asking how AI-generated images affect individual recall, we focus on how they communicate specific representations, recognising that such portrayals can cultivate particular assumptions and beliefs. Drawing on memory of the multitude, visual social semiotics, and cultivation/desensitisation theories, we analyse how visual generative AI mediates the representation of the Russia-Ukraine war. Our corpus includes 200 images of the Russia-Ukraine war generated from 23 prompts across proprietary and open-source visual generative AI systems. The findings indicate that visual generative AI tends to present a sanitised view of the war. Critical aspects, such as death, injury, and suffering of children and refugees are often excluded. Furthermore, a disproportional focus on urban areas misrepresents the full scope of the war. Visual generative AI, we argue, introduces a new dimension to memory making in that it blends documentation with speculative fiction by synthesising the multitude embedded within the visual memory of war archives, historical biases, representational limitations, and commercial risk aversion. By foregrounding the socio-technical and discursive dimensions of synthetic war content, this study contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue on collective memory at the intersection of visual communication studies, media studies, and memory studies by providing empirical insights into how generative AI mediates the visual representation of war through human-archival-mechanistic entanglements.

Ideology is a powerful tool for parties in armed conflicts, as it provides a source of motivation for combatants to stay in group under difficult circumstances and to perform actions that put them at risk or defy their personal ethical codes. But once in peacetime, besides the effects of past negative intergroup experiences, radical beliefs may become an obstacle to reconciliation and prolong the confrontation in the minds of ex-combatants. An examination of 484 recently decommissioned soldiers and insurgents in Colombia shows how the persistent ideological differences among former enemies help us explain postconflict intergroup bias beyond the effects of wartime victimization. We conclude that addressing the ideological radicalization that prolongs confrontation after armed conflict ceases is fundamental to creating proper conditions for reconciliation, and it offers a viable policy alternative to the much-needed healing from wartime-related trauma.

The conventional literature suggests that the Chinese party-state has further strengthened social control and reinforced stability maintenance through expanded grassroots delegation. However, drawing on fieldwork interviews, government reports and media coverage, this article demonstrates that initiatives aimed at delegating power may actually weaken the government’s substantive responsiveness, thereby hindering the everyday management of disputes. The inherent tension of decentralization within a centralized political system leads to an uneven distribution of incentives and resources among agents at various levels. While more logistical powers (such as surveillance and mundane daily services) are allocated to grassroots governments, most decision-making and coercive powers (law enforcement and court rulings) remain in the hands of district-level functional departments. Grassroots officials are increasingly required to take broad responsibility for resolving citizen complaints, yet they face significant obstacles in mobilizing the relevant functional departments to address these issues. The reduced efficiency of problem-solving at the grassroots level not only increases the burden on grassroots bureaucrats to appease aggrieved citizens but also diminishes the effectiveness of initial efforts to contain routine grievances and prevent their escalation. This poses greater challenges for higher-level governments in balancing control and inclusivity, as well as in maintaining the legitimacy of state-sanctioned participatory institutions and the regime.

Cirques are classic glacial erosion landforms, and studying their morphological development provides valuable paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental insights. However, research on cirques on the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountain ranges has focused primarily on the southern, eastern, and northwestern plateau, with limited attention given to the northeastern region, hindering comparative analyses between different regions. In this study, 1132 ice-free cirques in the Qilian Mountains on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau are examined, and their spatial distribution patterns and influential factors are analyzed. The results show that the cirques’ aspect in the Qilian Mountains is predominantly north-facing. Influenced by climate and lithology, the size of the cirques gradually increases from east to west, and the elevation parameters of the cirques are significantly affected by aspect.. The cirques in the western section are shaped primarily by lateral erosion, whereas those in the central section experience more balanced erosion, and those in the eastern section are controlled primarily by longitudinal erosion. A comparison with existing cirque morphological data from other regions of the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountain ranges reveals that the formation of cirques is affected by both climatic and non-climatic factors, and their formation ages are difficult to determine.

It remains a little-known fact that from March 1766 to May 1767 Jean-Jacques Rousseau – fleeing from persecution in France and Switzerland – stayed in the remote hamlet of Wootton in Staffordshire. There he composed the first half of his Confessions in a garden hermitage, a structure half natural and half architectural, ever since known as Rousseau’s Cave. Our paper records the hermitage in its current state (exposed to the elements); it creates a digital reconstruction of the hermitage as it was in Rousseau’s lifetime; and it provides digital access to a monument that is otherwise not generally accessible.

Our paper records a modest but fairly typical eighteenth-century garden hermitage and also, with the highest quality digital reconstructions and fly-throughs, provides a new insight into the creation of one of the world’s greatest works of literature.

The paper contributes substantial new material to the study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and also contributes to garden history and the phenomenon of the garden hermitage.