La cuestión del estado en el pensamiento social crítico latinoamericano

Se intenta responder a la cuestión crucial de los modernos sistemas audiovisuales intentan manipular el pensamiento de los ciudadanos, analizando los mecanismos y procedimientos.

La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb’s contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished....

Los autores señalan que la tendencia global del incremento de la población urbana y, por ende, del crecimiento acelerado de las ciudades, determinan que el suelo no sólo sea un factor crucial para las condiciones de vida de la población urbana, sino también motivo de crecientes conflictos y tensiones. Destacan que el suelo urbano y urbanizable se caracteriza por ser un recurso finito, cuya escasez se expresa en las dificultades que acarrea el gobierno en la gestión de ciudades, y en las penurias que causa a la población de menores recursos para acceder a un pedazo de tierra dónde...

In 2007, during the archaeological excavations for the construction of a metro station in the Piazza Venetia of Rome, two auditoria were discovered that date to the first half of the second century AD. Some archaeologists identified them as part of Hadrian's Athenaeum, the first great Roman academic institution that is mentioned in classical sources. This book is the result of a thorough analysis covering topography, architecture, and philology, with the goal of revealing the function of the structures, which could have formed part of the Atheneum or, perhaps, of a judicial institution...