Jake Djones. El primer relámpago

"Commemorative edition celebrating the reopening in 2005 of the patrimonial building that houses the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile. The book examines the history of the museum and of the building, the architectonic restoration, while also is an historic document of the museum's reopening ceremony celebrated December 16, 2005. Includes brief reviews on MAC's personages, collection and historical exhibitions"--Provided by vendor.

The book is based on the concept of post-monolingualism as formulated by Yildiz (2012). Postmonolingualism refers to the resistance against the demands of monolingual institutions that require increasingly complex identities, social practices, and cultural products to conform to the expectancies of a normality which is no longer reasonable. To counter the demands for simplification of a monolingual paradigm, different approaches and initiatives that manage the complexities and diversities of our social, cognitive and moral nowadays are explored. From different and complementary theoretical...

One day some stretched-out gentlemen come and ask a father to be king. It seems a good opportunity, but in the end one must choose between being king and being a father. In a simple story, the authors invite us to reflect on the relationship of fathers and sons.

Este libro no plantea la cuestión del lenguaje en términos lógico-matemáticos, sino biológicos. El ser humano es un organismo, consta de productos minerales y de procesos orgánicos similares en todo a la naturaleza, pues no deja de ser parte de ella; pero además habla, tiene lenguaje y, por ello mismo, piensa y vive en sociedad. Rechazando y huyendo de cualquier " impostura intelectual " , es decir, sin pretender utilizar conceptos extraídos de las ciencias duras para hacer progresar las ciencias blandas, el lector de este libro no encontrará otra cosa que una gran cantidad de leyes...