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    Breaking the Symbolic Alienation
    with Maximiliano E. Korstanje
    Cultura 8 (2): 105-126. 2011.
    Many scholars in recent years have focused their efforts on revealing the connection of philosophy and authority. Basically, from Nietzsche onwards, philosophyhas witnessed ongoing efforts for “will to power” by some philosophers and of course this motivated many philosophers to take part in politics. Nonetheless, thismoot point engendered a serious risk and not only contrasted with the Socratic contributions, but also paved the way for the advent of a new way of making politics where philosophy…Read more
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    Preface -- Introduction: dialectics and social thought -- Marx and the dialectic of capital -- Freud and the dialectic of psychology -- Peirce, Mead, Goffman, and interactional social science -- Culture and society -- Critical theories -- Rebellion -- The phenomenologists -- Contemporary social thought: Agamben to Zizek -- Dialectics of contemporary society and the present crisis -- References -- Index.
  • Book Reviews (review)
    Gender and Society 2 (1): 115-116. 1988.
  • The Role of Science in a Modern Mobile World
    with Maximiliano E. Korstanje
    Philosophy for Business 76 (1). 2014.
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    Ethnography and psychoanalysis
    Human and Social Studies 1 (1): 29-50. 2012.
    This methodological essay describes and advocates using certain psychoanalytic techniques for ethnography. It focuses on the self analysis of the ethnographer using evenly hovering attention, dream analysis, and free association. It presents an argument that using those techniques enhances the goal of ethnography as a human science and of social research. Fear of crime serves as a point of departure for the methodological argument. Finally, it links psychoanalytic ethnography to a fractal model …Read more
  • The Fetish of Risk
    with Maximiliano Korstanje
    Philosophy for Business 74. 2012.
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    Meanings of terrorism
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 20 (2): 107-127. 2006.
    Terrorism is a notoriously plastic word, depending on user, audience, and political context. This paper focuses on shifts in its meanings since the early 1970s. As federal statutes made terrorism a criminal offense, common usage changed from a broad meaning to one that specified terrorism as a political crime. The argument is that the state shapes meaning and public discourse through law. Peircean semiotics and the semiotic philosophy of Russian linguist Vološinov provide a framework to explore …Read more
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    Power and Repression
    American Journal of Semiotics 8 (3): 5-29. 1991.
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    An Essay on the Social Costs and Benefits of Technology Evolution
    with Maximiliano E. Korstanje
    Human and Social Studies 2 (2): 13-39. 2013.
    After the Chernobyl’s and Three Miles’s accidents, the relation between technology and risk started to be questioned. Social scientist posited considerable criticism against technology and how its interventions may engender new dangers. However, these views ignored the fact that risks are not just a result of technology, but also depend upon the trust and knowledge. Any risk, first, should be defined as a narrative which is enrooted in a previous cultural and stereotyped framework. By itself, te…Read more
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    The Art of Living Together
    Cultura 10 (2): 49-70. 2013.
    A neighborhood in a US city seems to present a possibly unique exception to empirical generalizations and explanations of urban decline and occasional rehabilitation. Resisting decline, gentrification, and outside interests and actors, the neighborhood generated a subculture created by working class artists. As a valuable occasion for revising urban social theory, this essay draws on the work of Howard S. Becker, Pierre Bourdieu, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, and Georg Simmel, among others. …Read more