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    El renacimiento afroperuano y el renacer del contrapunto
    Cultura Afroperuana. Encuentro de Investigadores de 2019. 2021.
    Este capítulo presenta una mirada hacia la historia del renacimiento afroperuano en paralelo con la historia del contrapunto de zapateo criollo, una de las prácticas que más destacó el renacimiento. Enfatizando en las nociones de ruptura y acontecimiento del filósofo francés Alain Badiou, se examinan ambos como rupturas que constituyen una nueva historia. En el caso específico del contrapunto esta ruptura está dada por la transición de ser un concurso a ser una práctica escénica. Este documento …Read more
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    Competence, Counterpoint and Harmony: A triad of semiotic concepts for the scholarly study of dance
    Signata. Annales des Sémiotiques/Annals of Semiotics 11. 2020.
    This work presents to dance and music scholarship the concept of competence, developed and deployed by Greimas, together with the semiotic concepts of counterpoint and harmony. I emphasize competence as a temporal process that requires sanction by an external entity and which corresponds to the level of surface narrative syntax within Greimas’s method of ‘generative trajectory’. To exemplify the application of the generative trajectory to dance, I present the case of the contrapunto de zapateo f…Read more
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    Michelangelo, the Duck and the Rabbit: Towards a Robust Account of Modes of Existence
    with Marisol Cristel Galarza Flores
    Public Journal of Semiotics 9 (2): 1-29. 2020.
    The concept of modes of existence of semiotic entities underlies (post)Greimasian semiotics, yet it seems to have received little attention. Modes of existence can be used in different senses. For Greimas, from the perspective of narrative semiotics, when Michelangelo first receives a block of marble and decides to sculpt the David, his intention is in a virtual mode; as Michelangelo progresses he ends up bringing the David into existence, and his intention comes to the realized mode. In Fontani…Read more
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    Rethinking Knowledge-that and Knowledge-how: Performance, Information and Feedback
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philosophia 65 (3): 73-98. 2020.
    This work approaches the distinction between knowledge-how and knowledge-that in terms of two complementary concepts: performance and information. In order to do so, I formulate Ryle’s argument of infinite regress in terms of performance in order to show that Stanley and Williamson’s counterargument has no real object: both reject the view that the exercise of knowledge-that necessarily requires the previous consideration of propositions. Next, using the concept of feedback, I argue that Stanley…Read more