In this work we use Cultural Studies to identify and understand the representations that are transmitted about the educational process in Chico Bento's stories - a character of a comic strip in Brazil. He is a personage who lives in…

Since March 2008, I have been in the artistic – community work of a cultural society in a slum in Londrina (Brasil), teaching belly dancing to five community leaders and, recently, to other young women too. This text was supposed…

A society that is characterized by the expansion of control devices can generate different analyses about how these collaborate to produce ways of living that are put in circulation in the social sphere. The present article attempts to make the…

En este texto presento una versión resumida de mi tesis donde busco resaltar una parte de sus resultados, así como la propuesta de incorporar dos nociones al debate sobre la biopolítica contemporánea: el biomarqueting y la mercadeomentalidad., In this paper…

En este texto planteo diversas modos de caracterizar la sociedad del conocimiento, entendida como una hipótesis, un punto de partida, que puede ayudarnos a entender la realidad social contemporánea tras la crisis de la modernidad que es visible a partir…

Diversos estudios en historia, filosofía y sociología de la ciencia han mostrado que el carácter autónomo y valorativamente neutro de la ciencia y su búsqueda desinteresada de la verdad es, en el mejor de los casos, un mito ideal alejado…

The current situation in university is not only the consequence of what happens outside. University also plays a leading role in the production and maintenance of the social order it belongs to. In this paper we shall analyze, firstly, the…

The large-scale changes that are happening in the global context are permeating every area of contemporary life. University institutions are not immune to these changes and are becoming articulated within a unique logic, creating new "cultures" related to the production…

This interview opens a whole range of questions and discourses about an increasingly discussed social category: immigration. It attempts to raise attention about the concept of contemporary migrations and its diffusion. Like any dialogue the interview transcend the limits that…

This Thesis's summary explores the political and epistemological proposal that emerges from Free Software development made from Riereta.net. From the ethnography of this project, we analyse its contributions to knowledge production and to social studies of science and technology. This…