Browsing by Subject "Singularity"

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    A posthuman gothic tale : Kelly Link’s Two Houses.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Muñoz-González, Esther
    It is at the intersection of Posthuman thought, Gothic narratives, and the New Weird mode where “Two Houses” from Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble (2016) can be framed. In the story, six female astronauts alternate years of hibernation and moments of wakefulness in search of a habitable planet. The House of Secrets spaceship is controlled by the AI Maureen. Isolated in space, the astronauts amuse themselves by telling ghost stories. Through the stories, the reader is gradually dislocated from the recognizable landscape of a technologically plausible speculative fiction story to be plunged into a Gothic world of murder, haunted houses, and ghosts. The purpose of this paper is to trace the intersection of Posthuman thought and Gothic characteristics in the story to discuss the slippery relationship between what we believe we are and what we actually are.
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    Community, exposed singularity and death in Mrs Dalloway.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, María Jesús
    This essay brings Virginia Woolf and Jean-Luc Nancy into dialogue, focusing on their similar critique of essentialized models of community and evocation of forms of being-with that derive from the experiences of singularity and death. It identifies two forms of community in Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway (1925). The first one corresponds to Nancy’s conception of the immanent community, built upon essence and fusion, and in which death is provided with an ideological meaning. In Woolf’s novel, this communitarian logic traverses the official, ritualistic way in which England has sublimated the death and loss caused by the First World War, and the repressive conventions and the authoritarian spirit of the governing classes. An alternative kind of community, however, is suggested in Mrs Dalloway, one that can be identified with Nancy’s conception of the inoperative community: a community of singular beings who share their finitude, exposure and death. Blanchot’s ideas on the transient community of lovers and Butler’s theorization of a ‘we’ based upon common vulnerability and loss also shed light on this novel’s concern with antisocial bonds between characters that escape traditional forms of affiliation.
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    Identificación de recursos turísticos potenciales importantes por criterios de singularidad identitaria y universal. El municipio de Ugíjar en la Comarca de las Alpujarras
    (Murcia: Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2020) Fernández Quero, Juan Luis; Navarro Valverde, Francisco Antonio
    La promoción de las áreas rurales es una cuestión primordial para luchar contra su des-poblamiento. Actualmente existen deficiencias en la percepción del valor de los recursos propios existentes en muchos de estos territorios. Situación debida a factores como la falta de cultura territorial, profundización local y difusión investigadora de aquellos que pudieran poseer ciertas singularidades o aspectos de interés a diferentes escalas. La salvaguardia de la identidad territorial posibilita una evasión ante los procesos banalizadores conservando a su vez la riqueza patrimonial.
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    El pensamiento de lo excepcional. Auschwitz, filosofía, historia y representación 75 años después
    (2021) Fernández López, José Antonio; Filosofía
    El acontecimiento radical simbolizado por Auschwitz sigue demandando una articulación discursiva, un pensamiento “después de”, setenta y cinco años después de la liberación de los campos. ¿Tiene Auschwitz esa relevancia y significación universal? ¿Son las implicaciones de este acontecimiento tan vinculantes que le hacen trascender los límites de su propia y radical particularidad? Determinar el significado de un acontecimiento como el que simboliza el Lager de Auschwitz ha sido y sigue siendo un reto para el pensamiento, con profundas implicaciones estéticas, metafísicas y éticopolíticas.