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Esta investigación pionera revela las sombras del tráfico de personas, un negocio de enorme crecimiento mundial para el que las vidas no importan, pero cada cuerpo cuenta.Para comprender los vínculos entre migracion y trafico de seres humanos, Barbie Latza Nadeau decidio investigar un mercado mundial multimillonario que se beneficia del tragico destino de personas desesperadas mientras los gobiernos invierten mas que nunca en el control de fronteras.Desde el Mediterraneo al canal de La Mancha, del rio Grande a Tailandia, cada persona, cada cuerpo en manos de los traficantes tiene un valor que pone en marcha la cadena de la explotacion humana, una cadena que vale miles de millones de dolares. Una cadena de longitud inconmensurable que se ha infiltrado en el mundo criminal hasta las mas altas esferas de las instituciones respetables, de la mafia italiana a los carteles, de los bancos a los gobiernos.

Una puerta de entrada esencial al pensamiento de Simone Weil, con dos de sus ensayos más lúcidos sobre la libertad, la opresión y la violencia, acompañados por una introducción actual y accesible de Juan Evaristo, que invita a leer a Weil como una pensadora imprescindible para nuestro tiempo.Una de las pensadoras mas radicales del siglo XX, como nunca la habias leido.Simone Weil escribio con una lucidez implacable sobre la libertad, la fuerza y la injusticia, sin separar nunca el pensamiento de la experiencia. Esta antologia reune dos de sus textos mas impactantes, perfectos para quienes se acercan por primera vez a su obra: Reflexiones sobre las causas de la libertad y de la opresion social, un ensayo filosofico de sorprendente actualidad sobre las estructuras de poder y la condicion humana, y La Iliada o el poema de la fuerza, una lectura poderosa del poema homerico como simbolo universal de la violencia y su capacidad de deshumanizacion. Ambos textos comparten una idea central: que la fuerza, cuando domina la vida individual o colectiva, destruye no solo a los oprimidos, sino tambien a los vencedores. Weil nos invita a mirar esa fuerza de frente, sin ilusiones, y a preguntarnos que puede significar hoy resistirla, tanto en el plano politico como en el etico. La edicion se completa con una introduccion inedita del filosofo Juan Evaristo, que traza un puente entre el pensamiento de Weil y los dilemas contemporaneos, y nos recuerda por que esta autora incomoda y luminosa sigue siendo una voz insustituible.

Una historia fascinante sobre la idea de igualdad y su evolución a lo largo de los siglos, desde sus raíces en la Antigüedad hasta la crisis que enfrentamos en el presente.En nuestro mundo proliferan

ESTE REVELADOR ENSAYO DE BIOÉTICA ANALIZA CÓMO LOS AVANCES TECNOLÓGICOS ESTÁN AFECTANDO A LOS FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CULTURA OCCIDENTAL. ECHARTE LANZA UNA ADVERTENCIA PROVOCADORA: ENAMORARSE DE UNA IA ES "UN PELIGRO MAS LETAL Y MENOS MANIFIESTO QUE UNA EXPLOSION NUCLEAR".EL AUTOR INVITA A AVANZAR HACIA UN "VERDADERO HUMANISMO TECNOLOGICO" Y A "APRENDER DE NUEVO A TEMBLAR" ANTE LOS HORIZONTES TECNOLOGICOS Y EL "AMOR MAQUINA", QUE IDENTIFICA COMO EL PRINCIPAL PELIGRO DE LA POSMODERNIDAD.

Las clases del curso que dictó Sebreli en la Academia del Sur entre 1996 y 1997 sobre las revoluciones políticas, sociales y culturales del siglo XX. Verdadero testamento intelectual del gran ensayista argentino.Mediados de la decada de 1990. Los paises que pocos años antes habian pertenecido a la orbita del comunismo atravesaban transiciones turbulentas cuyo impacto recorria todo el planeta. En ese contexto historico inedito y en la cumbre de su carrera (venia de publicar El asedio a la modernidad y El vacilar de las cosas), Juan Jose Sebreli dicto en Buenos Aires un curso sobre revoluciones politicas, sociales y culturales. Su proposito: analizar sin concesiones el siglo XX a la luz de la idea de revolucion y tratar de entenderlo dando por tierra con cualquier tipo de mito. En estas clases, con audacia y lucidez, siempre fiel a su espiritu implacablemente desconfiado, Sebreli la emprende con el reves de los hechos para encontrar los elementos de verdad sepultados en estratos de interpretaciones doctrinarias. Nada se libra de su escrutinio impiadoso: desde el concepto mismo de revolucion, pasando por los tipos de organizaciones que las llevaron adelante y los metodos que utilizaron, hasta las versiones canonicas de los hitos que llegaron a cristalizar como indiscutibles: la revolucion rusa y las revoluciones chinas; la guerra civil española; el fascismo, el nazismo, el estalinismo y la Segunda Guerra Mundial; los movimientos de posguerra; la revolucion cubana, y como repercutieron esos procesos en emergentes de la cotidianeidad social como la liberacion sexual, las revueltas estudiantiles, la moda y el cine. El curso fue grabado, luego volcado en papel y, finalmente, corregido a mano por el propio Sebreli cuyo estilo coloquial y marcas de oralidad Marcelo Gioffredecidio conservar en esta edicion, que amplifica la voz reflexiva y el ethos intelectual del ultimo gran ensayista argentino.

Una exploración de la psiquis colectiva; de los sentimientos, afectos y representaciones que hicieron posible el vertiginoso ascenso de la ultraderecha en la Argentina. Los odios y resentimientos, pero tambien las ilusiones y demandas hacia el futuro.Cristian Alarcon (coordinador)Paula Sibilia, Luis Ignacio Garcia, Moira Perez,Micaela cuesta, Rossana Reguillo, Hernan BorisonikSebastian Carassai, Mariana Luzzi y Maria Soledad Sanchez.El cambio de epoca merece una exploracion del animo social. Desde la filosofia, la sociologia, la ciencia politica, la historia y el psicoanalisis, esta serie de ensayos hacen foco en las representaciones, los sentimientos y humores que dieron lugar e impulso al veloz ascenso de la ultraderecha en la Argentina. En este mundo de promesas rotas -del Estado de Bienestar inviable a la autorrealizacion que no se alcanza- florecen las pasiones tristes: frustracion, resentimiento, indignacion, odio. Y se potencia la explotacion politica de las emociones propias de esta etapa del capitalismo en el que las logicas del deber, el interes colectivo o la trascendencia fueron desplazadas por las del individualismo mientras se tensaba hasta romperse el lazo que anudaba trabajo con futuro.Los textos de este libro trazan ese diagnostico y tambien invitan a imaginar un futuro. Evadiendo los analisis rapidos y polarizantes, la tentacion de asignar valores negativos o positivos segun el voto, buscan en un presente opaco destellos de lo que vendra.Cristian Alarcon, autor de las novelas de no ficcion Cuando me muera quiero que me toquen cumbia y Si me queres, quereme transa, y del Premio Alfaguara de Novela El tercer paraiso, creo y dirige desde 2012 la revista digital Anfibia, que propone un cruce entre el periodismo narrativo y la academia. Con ese espiritu reunio estos ensayos que configuran una pintura de la epoca.

Bridgerton is the runaway Netflix success that has captured the hearts and imaginations of its biggest ever global audience. Producers Chris Van Dusen and Shonda Rhimes have ripped up the Regency drama rulebook to create a series that speaks to a modern audience. Apart from the intense sexual chemistry, inspired casting and a lavish costume budget, what sets Bridgerton apart is the extensive use of location shooting. Step forward Bath: the Georgian architectural jewel gets to play many different parts of fashionable London. Bridgertons Bath takes you on a tour of all these locations from No.1 The Royal Crescent (the Featheringtons house on Grosvenor Square) to Abbey Green (Covent Garden) and the Abbey Deli (Modiste couturier) on Abbey Street. Bridgerton intersects with Jane Austens world at the Assembly Rooms where one of the early balls takes place, while the 18th-century Bath Guildhall also gets a place on the series dance card. A key character in the drama is Lady Danbury, played by Adjoa Andoh, and her grand mansion is Baths former Sydney Hotel, today the Holburne Museum. Gunters Tea Room was a celebrated London patisserie and in Bridgerton it can be found on Trim Street. Many Bath streets feature regularly, including Beauford Square, a place for regular carriage trips and the Royal Crescent, which in Series One, reverberated to the sound of galloping hooves as our heroine (or her stunt double) raced to stop a duel. The book includes a feature on how the series was filmed in the city, and includes a detailed map so you can follow your own Bridgerton Walking Tour of this beautiful city, which has more to offer besides.

New to Twitter and feeling a little confused? On first glance, all those half-conversations and unfamiliar symbols may look like gobbledegook. But its really very simple and this useful book is here to help.In straightforward, chatty text accompanied by amusing illustrations, popular tweeter and blogger Lynn C Schreiber helps you get the most out of Twitter. She demystifies the jargon (hashtags? Follow Friday? DMs? All explained here) and gives easy ways to find friends, gain followers, and have fun! The book also provides an insight into the all-important rules of Twitter etiquette, and the various applications you can use with Twitter to enhance your experience even more. Armed with the information in this book, youll become an assured and expert tweeter - in super-quick time!

In volume 1, Professor Verdon sought to identify what crippled social anthropologys original project, that of understanding sociocultural variability. He found its cause in a universal, Aristotelian cosmology that renders groups ontologically variable to their principles of social organization, by defining them in terms of behaviour regulation. In this second volume, he develops a cure to that cosmological malaise: to define groups outside all behaviour regulation, and to define a separate group for every type of activity (unifunctional groups). From these two new cosmological requirements he sets out to define all the main concepts of social anthropology in what he calls an operational language (defined with respect to anthropologys aims, not as entities with intrinsic anthropological attributes): groups, corporations, descent, territoriality, lineages, segmentation, sovereignty and so on.He then applies this language to translate classical ethnographies operationally. He first chose the most famous ethnographies of so-called segmentary lineage societies, the Nuer (Sudan), Tallensi (Ghana) and Tiv (Nigeria), and then added the Berbers from the Rif (Morocco), the Yao (Malawi) and Australian Aborigines. All those societies were described as having descent groups. Translated operationally, ONLY ONE of them retains descent groups (the Tallensi). This leads him radically to transform the ethnographic landscape of social anthropology. Where all ethnographers saw descent groups almost everywhere, he finds them to be rare occurrences, now replaced with clientelistic social formations.Overall, setting out to define a set of etic (objective) concepts, he discovers that this language actually yields much better emic approaches to social organization (an approach closer to the actors subjective experience).

Are we destined to merge with the machines weve created? What if the Singularity the moment of merger already happened? How would we know?The King and the Swarm argues that we already have. We did so via an always-on and increasingly omnipresent mesh of digital sensing points that spans the world, and of which you almost certainly have one in your pocket. The global transformation this has wrought reaches far beyond economics, reshaping politics, culture, sex, family, and even consciousness itself.

The recent revelations regarding secret payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy werent the first time Irelands national broadcaster has found itself caught up in scandal.Shane Ross, author of #1 bestsellers The Bankers and Mary Lou McDonald, winds the clock back to examine RTEs history of broadcasting excellence alongside the accusations of corruption, waste and ineptitude it has faced along the way, while also considering what the future might hold for this formerly beloved institution.

Titanic represents a microcosm of the world in 1912. It was a mans world in many respects, across law, land ownership, voting rights, family structures and religious hierarchies. The stories we know about those involved that fateful night are as varied as the people aboard the ship, but many of them revolve around the roles and actions of the men.This new book from Melinda Ratchford delves into the world as it was for women in 1912, and presents a selection of womens stories, including a variety of women who travelled aboard Titanic, from rich to poor, and well-known to largely forgotten, and also stories of some women who didnt travel but whose lives were inextricably linked to the tragedy and changed forever. This collection of stories presents the lives of these women before, during and after the tragedy that irrevocably changed their world, and ours.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand and to write about with unflinching honesty. What emerges is a deeply personal, unsentimental, and often surprising account of life inside the brothel, where Becker explores not just the physical aspects of sex work, but the emotional, psychological, and social complexities that shape it.With frankness and literary insight, she recounts her encounters with clients, her growing self-awareness, and, most poignantly, the friendships and solidarity she finds among the other women who work there. Far from reducing sex work to cliche or voyeurism, Becker gives space to the quiet routines, shared laughter, private pain, and hard-won dignity of a profession often misunderstood and rarely written about from the inside.Part memoir, part sociological study, and wholly literary, La Maison challenges preconceptions about sex, agency, and femininity, offering a provocative and compassionate exploration of what it means to inhabit multiple identitiesas worker, writer, woman, and witness.

Marshall McLuhan, a pioneering media theorist, explored how media shape perception, society, and culture. His concepts, like the medium is the message and the global village, emphasize media as extensions of human senses that profoundly influence communication and social structures. He analyzed transitions from oral to print culture and the impact of electronic media on thought and interaction. This volume seeks global contributions applying McLuhans theories to AI, digital media, knowledge, creativity, and body-mind relations in todays networked world.In this volume, edited by Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan and Tobias Held, scholars from diverse fieldsmedia theory, philosophy, sociology, art, game studies, and moreare examining McLuhans enduring relevance in analyzing contemporary technological and cultural transformations.

Online und offline sicher und gesundElternsein gleicht heute oft einem Kampf gegen Windmuhlen. Die digitale Ubermacht durchdringt jeden Lebensbereich unserer Kinder und fuhrt zu einer zunehmenden Abhangigkeit von sozialen Medien und wachsenden psychischen Problemen. Nur wie kann ein gesunder und ausgewogener Umgang mit den modernen Technologien gelingen? In diesem pragnanten Handbuch zeigt die renommierte Psycholgin Jean Twenge, wie Eltern die Gefahren der digitalen Welt minimieren und ihren Kindern zugleich wichtige Lebenskompetenzen mit auf den Weg geben, um sie auf ein selbstbestimmtes Erwachsenenleben vorzubereiten.

Freya Indias writing is compassionate, gripping, and deeply psychological Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious GenerationComing of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today girls have to contend with those worries in a world of AR filters, TikTok plastic surgeons, dating apps, hook up culture, online porn, modern sex-positivity, profit-driven online therapy apps, direct-to-door medication and even fully customisable AI girlfriends. All personalised by algorithms to play on their innermost fears and insecurities. It is an onslaught of advertising, it is on portable platforms designed to be maximally addictive, and it is far beyond what any previous generation of girls have ever faced.Girls teases out and traces both technological and cultural shifts in the last decadefrom social media to shifting family structures, waning religious attachment and the collapse of communal spaces. And Girls exposes the sinister and rapid intensification and ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of girls and young women which leads to the loss of their authentic selvesa loss that corporations are all too ready to exploit.Girls is a personal journey and intimate portrait of girls today, in all their mystery and torment: one that captures the soul of the most complex and misunderstood generation so far, and that empowers them to see their lives through a different lens.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

United in Grace, Beyond DebateConversations about abortion often center on the question: Are you pro-life or pro-choice? But what if thats the wrong question? Drawing upon the life and teachings of Jesus, Becoming ProGrace invites Christians to ask new questions, such as: What if conversations about abortion didnt have to feel so tense, divided, or dehumanizing? What does it mean to affirm the image of God in every person involved? How do we navigate tension we may feel when our deepest Christian values seem to conflict? What would it take for Christian communities to become spaces of empathy, listening, and grace? Including insights and personal stories from Christians of diverse denominational backgrounds and political perspectives, Becoming ProGrace articulates a uniquely Christian response to abortion that calls us to take on the character of Christ rather than trying to change others, offering a much-needed message of hope for our divided world.Jesus led with grace. As we reimagine our approach to the abortion conversation, so can we.

Revisiting a transformative era of Chinese contemporary art through essays, archives, and striking visual documentation. The China Moment explores one of the most dynamic turning points in global art history. Published to accompany the exhibition at the documenta Institut Kassel (JanuaryMarch 2026), the book sheds new light on the radical shifts in Chinese art during the 1990s and 2000s. This richly illustrated volume stands out through:In-depth essays by leading scholars and curators analyzing art, politics, and society Rare archival materials that reveal the cultural transformations of the time Visual documentation capturing the diversity and intensity of artistic practices A critical reader and catalogue in one, the publication rethinks individualism as a key concept shaping the relationship between art, state, and public life in Chinas rapidly changing cultural landscape.