Una subversión llamada Monsiváis

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

The Project was born when Professor Omer Bartov began to question his Israeli family on their European origins. The answers led him to a long exploration of places, archives, passages, books, monuments, and memories of the most brutal chapter in the history of the twentieth century. The genocide perpetrated by the Nazi's and their accomplices in Ukraine was not a methodical industrial activity, but rather an endless succession of almost intimately crafted killings. Some responsible even benefitted politically or economically. The echoes of what happened arrive today as small keys that help us ...

A través de esta breve selección de su intensa, atractiva y sugerente actividad de investigación llevada a cabo durante los últimos años, vemos cómo el profesor Roger Chartier ha transformado en fuente de conocimiento histórico los discursos del pasado, que hemos recibido en herencia, evaluando el entramado social y cultural en el que surgieron, así como las modalidades de recepción y uso a las que se vieron sometidos a lo largo del tiempo. La intervención de editores e impresores transformó los textos en objetos tangibles, haciendo posible el encuentro y el diálogo entre el autor ...

Written in 1540 by Friar Bernardino de Sahag-n, an in-depth ethnological account of the Aztec customs, religion and language.