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GOSPEL FOR THE LIVING ONES

We began building mom's  home the day the bombings  began. First it was the smoke.  Later it arrived the fire...
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Una interacción entre -mostrar y no mostrar

en la fotografía en color Highly carcinogenic blue asbestos waste on the Owendale Asbestos Mine tailings dump, near Postmasburg, Northern...
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Una interacción entre -mostrar y no mostrar

Rineke Dijkstra. The encounter between the photographer, the sitters and the viewer in the Beach Portrait Series.

The role of photography in the construction of identity. An encounter between observing and being observed; detailed colored large-scaled depictions...
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Rineke Dijkstra. The encounter between the photographer, the sitters and the viewer in the Beach Portrait Series.

Machine Gun Confusion

The shapes are that of two people. They do each have a soul, But it’s hard for them to remember...
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Brand New Heaven

I tried to accept everything, so that I could come to Heaven. But when I got there, Heaven was closed...
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Brand New Heaven

Maniobras: las políticas internacionales que militarizan las vidas de las mujeres

Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives Cynthia Enloe University of California Press, 2000, 437 pages.  ISBN: 9780520220713 Traducción...
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Maniobras: las políticas internacionales que militarizan las vidas de las mujeres

I Can Only Wonder

If we are always foreigners when one  of us walks across the Pont de Sully [what is then foreigner?]  I...
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I Can Only Wonder

Before Lockdown

Cuando cruzar un puente al aire libre era parte de la normalidad (autoetnografía) "Y el tiempo dirá si al final...
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Before Lockdown

Reseña poetizada de “Le Pont du Nord”, Jacques Rivette

Una claustrofóbica en prisión y una gemela con un hermano igual,             de otro país. Una llamada por cobrar ya pagada. ...
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Reseña poetizada de “Le Pont du Nord”, Jacques Rivette

ON A THEORY OF VIRTUAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN

“loko yosa darumayi yatha” (all the world is like a wooden doll in the hands of a master of puppets)SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM,...
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ON A THEORY OF VIRTUAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN

nepantla is a Nahuatl concept meaning “being in-between”. Being in-between is however not just a transitory phase, but an ontological indeterminacy. We find Uranga’s description of nepantla as a pendulum motion adequate. A pendulum is always in-between states and never fully determined by one single identity, by one single state or position. It is essentially non-essential. It is accordingly essentially in-between.

Such an attitude reflects the openness of Forum Nepantla: a place, a forum, a space of dynamic and open dialogue, that thus always goes beyond and pendulates beyond the conclusions it draws. Forum Nepantla is a project initiated by Federica Gonzalez Luna Ortiz, Fernando Wirtz, and Adrian Razvan Sandru. We invite contributions that promote cross- and trans-disciplinary as well as cross-cultural thought in any style and from any perspective. For submission proposals please see our guidelines.