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Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation – $545

27 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Since humans left Africa less than a hundred thousand years ago there has been a staggering explosion of cultures. What caused this blooming of diversity? Why are there so many mutually incomprehensible languages, even within small territories? Why do we rejoice in rituals, wrap ourselves in flags, or define ourselves in opposition to others? In “Wired for Culture” Mark Pagel, one of the world’s leading experts on human development, shows how our facility for culture is the key to our […]

Categories: Antropología, Cultura, Ensayo, Sociología • Tags: Allen lane, Anthropology, antropologia, cooperación, cooperation, cultura, cultural, Culture, political, Social, Sociology

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Tattoo in Japan: Traditional and Modern Styles – $2,035

7 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

An immense, opulently illustrated volume about the high art of tattooing in Japan. The art of creating long-lasting body decorations has an age-old tradition in Japan. Many parallels can be drawn between this traditional genre and classical ink paintings and woodcuts by Japanese masters. This book contains works by many of the finest and most prestigious master tattooists, in a spectrum ranging from old school to neo-traditional and contemporary styles. These virtuosos provide inspiration and serve as role models […]

Categories: Arte, Cultura, Ilustrado • Tags: Body Art, cultura, ink, Japan, Japón, Reuss, Tattoo, Tatuaje, tatuajes

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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction – $375

31 August, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right. Sterne studies the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as “sound” and “not […]

Categories: Cultura, Historia, Tecnología • Tags: cultura, duke university press, Historia, History, Sonido, sound, Technology

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Ecolalias. Sobre el olvido de las lenguas – $375

3 July, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Así como es posible adquirir un lenguaje también es posible perderlo. Las personas pueden olvidar palabras, frases o incluso lenguas completas que alguna vez conocieron. También los pueblos dejan escapar, en el transcurso del tiempo, las lenguas que alguna vez fueron suyas, lenguas que desaparecen y dejan paso a otras que les siguen. Daniel Heller-Roazen reflexiona en esta obra sobre las múltiples formas del olvido lingüístico, ofreciendo al lector una rica y amplia investigación filosófica acerca de la persistencia y […]

Categories: Cultura, Ensayo, Teoría • Tags: cultura, ecolalia, Freud, lenguaje, Lenguas, lingüistica, memoria, olvido, pérdida, teoría

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PIEL NEGRA, MÁSCARAS BLANCAS – $585

3 July, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Pocos autores han tenido un impacto tan profundo sobre la identidad negra como Frantz Fanon, cuya obra ha ejercido una poderosa influencia sobre el movimiento de los derechos civiles, los movimientos anticoloniales y los movimientos por la conciencia negra de todo el mundo, desde el Black Power hasta los Black Panthers pasando por buena parte de los movimientos de liberación nacional de África y Asia. El racismo y el colonialismo todavía dejan sentir su peso sobre el mundo contemporáneo, y […]

Categories: Actualidad, Cultura, Sociología • Tags: Black Power, colonialismo, cultura, identidad negra, individuo y sociedad, Judith Butler, Plack Panthers, racismo, samir amin, Sociedad, tolerancia

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Guía de Freud – $385

5 May, 2012 by rgonzalezr

¿Tiene aún Freud alguna actualidad? Este volumen parte de la premisa de que así es. Al enfocar la obra de Freud no sólo desde una perspectiva filosófica, sino también histórica, psicoanalítica, antropológica y sociológica, los autores ofrecen nuevas vías de análisis del pensamiento y los actos humanos. Los ensayos tienen en cuenta tanto en contexto de la obra freudiana como su estructura argumental para revelar cómo es posible dar sentido a toda una variedad de experiencias por lo general incomprendidas. […]

Categories: Ensayo, Psicología • Tags: Akal, cultura, Ensayo, Freud, psicología

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PENSAR EN EUROPA – $319

30 March, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Además de novelista y memorialista, Jorge Semprún es desde hace mucho tiempo un agudísimo observador y analista de la política y la cultura europea. Los tiempos convulsos a los que estamos asistiendo, caracterizados por la desorientación ideológica, exigen más que nunca una profunda reflexión sobre las raíces históricas, éticas y estéticas europeas. Pensar en Europa recoge los numerosos artículos, conferencias y discursos de homenaje dedicados a pensar qué es y hacia dónde va el continente europeo. El libro se articula al hilo […]

Categories: Cultura, Ensayo • Tags: cultura, Ensayo, Europa, política, semprún

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Society of the Spectacle – $230

12 March, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text by Guy Debord, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960′s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept […]

Categories: Cultura, Medios, Política, Represión, Televisión, Teoría • Tags: cultura, Espectáculo, Guy Debord, La socied del espectáculo, Los 60's, Situacionistas, Situationsm, teoría cultural, teoría política

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1959: The Year Everything Changed – $185

13 September, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Slate columnist Kaplan takes a contrarian view to the common wisdom that the ’60s were the source of the cultural shift from pre-WWII traditions to the individualistic, question-authority world of today. In Kaplan’s view, the watershed year in this transformation is 1959. He delves into that year’s cultural and political scene, citing Miles Davis and his revolutionary album Kind of Blue; William Burroughs and his equally revolutionary novel, Naked Lunch; and the opening of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s radically designed Guggenheim Museum in New York […]

Categories: Cultura, Historia • Tags: 1959, 60's, Burroughs, cultura, Cultural change, los sesentas, sixties, Wiley

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Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control – $240

10 August, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Paperback: 296 pages Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (July 1, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 1931498520 You could call them the Monkeywrench Gang of the nanotech age. Derrick Jensen and George Draffan are taking down the data mining industry, one converted mind at a time. In the face of RFID chips, consumer tracking strategies, and illegal government wiretapping, Jensen and Draffan are determined to show consumers how to fight back against government and industry to regain their rights, their privacy, and their humanity. In their new […]

Categories: Ensayo, Guerra • Tags: civilización, control, cultura, opresión, sistema, vigilancia

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La amistad – $140

6 August, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Jordi Llovet + Conversación con un amigo (entrevista de Llàtzer Moix) serie dixit 98 páginas, 11 x 20 cm. en coedición con el CCCB traducción: Albert Fuentes ISBN 9789871566440, rústica – Argentina fecha de aparición: junio de 2011 ISBN 9788492946242, rústica – España fecha de aparición: octubre de 2010 “Así como la melodía, en términos musicales, o la pasión de narrar, han sido una constante a lo largo de toda la historia de la humanidad, así los hombres y las mujeres continúan, […]

Categories: Teoría • Tags: cultura

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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) – $200

9 May, 2011 by rgonzalezr

For the most part, Web 2.0–Internet technologies that encourage interactivity, customization, and participation–is hailed as an emerging Golden Age of information sharing and collaborative achievement, the strength of democratized wisdom. Jaron Lanier isn’t buying it. In You Are Not a Gadget, the longtime tech guru/visionary/dreadlocked genius (and progenitor of virtual reality) argues the opposite: that unfettered–and anonymous–ability to comment results in cynical mob behavior, the shouting-down of reasoned argument, and the devaluation of individual accomplishment. Lanier traces the roots of […]

Categories: Cultura, Tecnología • Tags: cultura, Internet, manifesto tech guru, paradigmas de la tecnologìa, tecnologìa, Web, Web 2.0, Wired magazine

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The Information bomb – $250

5 May, 2011 by rgonzalezr

A prolific French intellectual known for his pronouncements on media, computers and technology, Virilio writes in the subversive tradition of Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard and Theodore Roszak. In this bracing collection of essays and articles, originally published in France in 1998, he emerges as a deeply skeptical critic of “techno-culture,” his blanket term encompassing cyberspace, Hollywood and pop culture, transgenic foodstuffs, animal cloning and the human genome project. Without much evidence, Virilio charges that the United States is waging an […]

Categories: Ensayo, Filosofía • Tags: ciberespacio, ciencia, cultura, cyber colonialism, information bomb, intelectuales franceses, monopolyof knowledge, social control, surveillance, techno cultura, totalitarism, Verso, Virilio

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction – $150

5 January, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Paperback: 168 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 15, 2000) “If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do,” write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline’s guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropology’s most important contributions to modern thought: its […]

Categories: Antropología • Tags: castas, cultura, etnografia, people, Sociedad, tribus, very short introduction

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Tattoo in Japan: Traditional and Modern Styles – $2,035

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction – $375

Ecolalias. Sobre el olvido de las lenguas – $375

PIEL NEGRA, MÁSCARAS BLANCAS – $585

Guía de Freud – $385

PENSAR EN EUROPA – $319

Society of the Spectacle – $230

1959: The Year Everything Changed – $185

Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control – $240

La amistad – $140

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) – $200

Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction – $150

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