HEAT repeats in the Huntington's disease protein

2024

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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2021

This article reviews accounts of "hugging" across evolutionary paradigms to expose how understandings of gesture are shaped by scientific theorizations of the ways humans and animals differ. The divergent roles assigned to gesture in human communication by Vygotskian and Chomskyan researchers can be traced to research on human exceptionalism during key historical periods in the Soviet Union and United States. When Vygotsky introduced his sociocultural theory of cognitive development during the early Soviet period, human exceptionalism was tested through reproductive crossbreeding. When Chomsky hypothesized a language acquisition device for the human brain during the Civil Rights era, human exceptionalism was tested through interspecies communication. These scientific histories inspired critically different approaches to gestural meaning. Taking a fresh look at the great ape language debates of the 1970s, the article attributes the dismissal of ethnography in late twentieth century human language study to a developing experimental protocol that required gesture's eviction.

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Devenir Tierra, 2024

The book accompanies the solo exhibition at MUAC of Ursula Biemann's ecological video works between 2013 and 2023. Biemann's work proposes to rethink our relationship with nature and our position in cohabiting different contemporary ecologies and political landscapes. In her field research she explores the ecologies of forests and oil, as well as the consequences of extractivist projects on the global ecostyems and the climate. Engaging with the intelligence of nature, her work expands the limits of the epistemological and brings Western science and ancestral knowledge into a meaningful conversation. The exhibition Becoming Earth explores the possibilities of transformation through a poetics of images, sounds and words that heighten our awareness of the interconnections with the natural world and affirm the need to hold multispecies dialogues to enhance our role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Probing the boundaries between ways of thinking, sensing and knowing, Biemann’s enveloping, sensitive and theoretical proposal immerses us in an experience in which images and testimonies powerfully interpellate the world we inhabit.

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The Statesman, 2021

Metaverse, if and when it materialises will redefine our concepts of morality, aesthetics and even reality. It also brings the dystopian possibility that we might seek the refuge of the virtual world in order to forget our real life troubles, besides earning endless profits for the tech companies which will be the gatekeepers of this new universe.

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Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional

Resumo Apresenta-se uma síntese propositiva sobre os usos e compreensões do termo “atividades humanas” que, a partir da década de 1990, passou a ser privilegiado na produção de conhecimentos da terapia ocupacional brasileira. É feita uma descrição sobre a construção epistemológica e social em torno das atividades, apontando suas dimensões como instrumento e/ou elemento centralizador e orientador do processo terapêutico ocupacional e, por fim, propomos um debate crítico contemporâneo. Tem-se como referência quatro movimentos históricos e marcadores teórico-metodológicos da produção da terapia ocupacional para abordar o deslocamento das compreensões até um conceito humano, cultural, plural e polissêmico, sobretudo voltado para a dinâmica viva das pessoas e coletivos. As perspectivas das Terapias Ocupacionais do Sul e da Terapia Ocupacional como Produção de Vida são apresentadas para contribuir com o debate propositivo, sustentado pelo compromisso ético-político-cultural deste campo de...

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Applied Economics Letters, 2022

Democracies are expected to implement expansionary fiscal policies to accelerate economic recovery in crisis times. However, as experienced in the 2008 global financial crisis, democratic countries sometimes tend to adopt austerity measures during crises. This paper examines the relationship between democracy and fiscal support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The empirical findings confirm the positive impact of democracy on fiscal support. As we unbundle the effects, democracy has a significant effect for the non-health sector, but the effect is insignificant for the health sector. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504851.2022.2120950

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The transition from the LBA to the EIA in the eastern Mediterranean is one of the most debated periods in archaeology marked by the collapse of regional powers, a shift from urban and centralized organization to a more rural one, migrations, and an overall heterogeneity in material culture. New excavations and reevaluation of old excavations conducted in the last two decades confirmed that the narrative of the so−called ‘Dark Ages’ is more nuanced and multifaceted. This article contributes to this discussion by investigating a local painted pottery style spanning the LBA and EIA periods in the northeastern region of Mediterranean. The focus of this study is the mound of Tarsus−Gözlükule in Cilicia, but a regional perspective is provided by tying in other settlements from Cilicia and the Amuq. The aim is to synthesize new and old information in order to create a more fine−tuned stratigraphy and to understand the processes of both change and continuity for this period.

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