La nave de los locos

No es un cuadro de El Bosco, ni un capítulo de un libro de Michel Foucault, ni una metáfora literaria, pues las naves de los locos realmente existieron. Feliz 2012 y Good Show a todos y todas los que somos pasajeros de la nave de los locos.

El anillo de oro

"Tomemos un anillo de oro. Tiene un agujero, y este agujero es tan esencial al anillo como el oro: sin el oro, el agujero (que además no existiría) no sería anillo; pero, sin el agujero, el oro (que sin embargo existiría) tampoco sería anillo. Pero si se han encontrado átomos en el oro, no es en absoluto necesario buscarlos en el agujero. Y nada dice que el oro y el agujero son de una única y misma manera (por supuesto, se trata del agujero en tanto que agujero, y no del aire que hay en el agujero). El agujero es una nada que solo subsiste, en tanto que presencia de una ausencia, gracias al oro que lo rodea. Igualmente, el Hombre que es Acción podría ser una nada que se anonada en el ser, por medio del ser que niega. El mundo es comparable a un anillo de oro" (Alexandre Kojeve).

Series TV Luis Garcia Fanlo en Arquitecto de Laberintos

Arquitecto de Laberintos es un programa de radio conducido por Marcelo Barrio y Gustavo Sisca que se emite por FM La Tribu los miércoles a las 21 horas (Argentina) y este año tuve la oportunidad de participar como columnista encarnando al "Critico Serial". Les hago el resumen de esta primera temporada 2011 incluyendo el link para escuchar el audio de algunos programas emitidos. 

“Crítico Serial” (2011-presente)

Luis García Fanlo a.k.a. “Crítico Serial”
Arquitecto de Laberintos, Radio FM La Tribu (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Primera Temporada

Episodio 1: Dexter
Fecha de emisión: 14 de septiembre de 2011

Episodio 2: Dr. House
Fecha de emisión: 28 de septiembre de 2011

Episodio 3: Star Trek
Fecha de emisión: 12 de octubre de 2011

Episodio 4: Entrevista a Leonel Lacanna
Fecha de emisión: 2 de noviembre de 2011

Episodio 5: Dead Set/ The Walking Dead
Fecha de emisión: 30 de noviembre de 2011

Episodio 6: Breaking Bad / TheKilling
Fecha de emisión: 14 de diciembre de 2011

Series TV Luis Garcia Fanlo en Artezeta

Artezeta es una revista digital sobre arte, sociedad y cultura que ha tenido la gentileza de invitarme a escribir sobre series de televisión. A continuación les dejo los enlaces a los artículos de mi autoría publicados durante 2011. ¡Gracias Artezeta!

"Falling Skies, el imperio contraataca" sobre "Falling Skies", 20 de julio 2011

"Biopolítica y sociedad de normalización" sobre "The Walking Dead", 29 de septiembre 2011

"La americanidad entre la civilización y la barbarie" sobre "Hell On Wheels", 25 de noviembre de 2011

"¿Querés saber lo que es estar muerto" sobre "The Walking Dead", 12 de diciembre de 2011

"Quién controla el pasado controla el futuro" sobre "Terra Nova", 23 de diciembre de 2011

Catedra Sociologia de la argentinidad (UBA)

Durante el primer cuatrimestre 2012 dictaré junto con Claudia Venturelli, Diego Basile, Horacio Prado, Matías Álvarez y Victoria Tiseyra la asignatura Sociología de la Argentinidad en la Carrera de Sociología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires por 8vo año consecutivo. Como todos los años hemos actualizado el programa de la materia y además hemos incorporado nuevas temáticas de actualidad. Para conocer nuestro trabajo pueden visitar el sitio web y para ponerse en contacto ponemos a disposición las siguientes opciones:

Twitter: @socargentinidad

Facebook:  http://es-es.facebook.com/pages/Sociolog%C3%ADa-de-la-argentinidad-UBA/206848732692828

Email: socioargentinidad@gmail.com

Dexter (TV Series) The Dark Passenger

The series has Dexter Morgan as its only protagonist, and the story is told from his own point of view, including as a narrative resource the fact that the spectators hear what he thinks from a voice offstage, which is used so that we may get to know what he really thinks about those who surround him and about the society in which he lives. Another narrative aid consists in that Dexter can not only see his dead father but he also talks with him, exchanges points of view, receives his advice, they argue, fight and reconcile; in the diegesis it is made known to us that it is not his father, but rather a split in his personality: his father is embedded in his body.

The diegesis makes it clear that Dexter was not born serial killer, but has come one of them due to the traumatic event that being present at his mother’s horrendous death meant; nevertheless, one of the recurring conflicts that appear in the story is the question that the character asks himself as to whether his condition was irreversible, or if it finally ended being so because of his father, who was indeed convinced of the incurable nature of his disease. This is a very important axis in the series because it explains the efforts he makes to overcome his trauma and annul his killing instincts, and who refers to himself as someone who was damaged in a clear reference to an occasion for which he is not responsible but rather a victim. The script plays with this internal conflict but the outcome of the plots in which it is developed always ends up showing that his efforts are fruitless, that he will always be a serial killer and that this mark will accompany him indelibly until his death.

I point out the term chosen by Dexter to diagnose himself and others like him who are damaged. Throughout the series he discovers that all those who surround him -normal people- are in one way or another, also damaged, though paraphrasing Jacques Lacan, “They are but they do not know”.

Thus, the philosophical discourse of the series consists in criticizing all genetic or natural determinism in the explanation of the psychological traumas corresponding to modernism, and in affirming that their nature is always social, although it falls into a deterministic conception in stating that once we have been damaged in some way, this condition is definitive. In this aspect, the series also distances itself from the stereotypes that the cinema or television discourse usually offers to explain the existence of serial killers, always inscribed in the order of clearly positivist and scientific medical-psychiatric terms (genetic explanations, chemical alterations in the brain or tumors, psychotic or sociopathic behaviour that cannot be explained, and so on).

How has Dexter been hurt? Dexter Morgan explains this by referring to the Dark Passenger we all have inside of us, and which, in his case, has freed itself of the chains that keep him locked up and controlled by feelings, morals, customs and the law. His Dark Passenger stops him from enjoyment, unless it comes through the pleasure he feels when murdering another human being and for this purpose he has cancelled in absolute terms his capacity for feeling. Dexter does not feel anything. Neither love nor hate, guilt or a desire for revenge. Is this quite so? The plot of the series plays on the possibility that in fact, Dexter may have feelings, although they are totally repressed, and even if he cannot recognize them as such it is difficult for the viewer not to recognize them in his relationship with Rita and her children; in the admiration he feels for his sister Debra in the passion he expresses for Lumen Pierce, in the deception caused by Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smith), whom he considered the closest thing to a friend.

Genealogia del discurso sobre "La Nueva Argentina"

Algunas semanas después del golpe de Estado liderado por el General José Félix Uriburu producido el 6 de septiembre de 1930, el diputado radical antipersonalista Carlos Rodríguez publica, el 26 de octubre, en forma semi-clandestina, un folleto titulado “La Nueva Argentina” que consistía en una recopilación de todos los proyectos de ley que había presentado en el Congreso Nacional desde 1922 con el propósito de salvarlos de la censura militar y preservarlos para que las generaciones futuras conocieran la verdad sobre la obra del gobierno radical. 

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