Split Notes: Volume 2

Extinction and Religion, 2024

Current evolutionary theory traces the remarkable emergence of life on this planet around 4.4 billion years ago to the primeval waters that began to pool on Earth's surface some five hundred years previously. While many mythic traditions have revered 'mother earth' deities, with Christian writers of the Middle Ages still deploying the metaphor of Terra Mater, it seems that we living beings actually owe our existence to the watery deep, our ancient Aqua Mater. Recalling this renders especially appalling the multiple threats to marine life that are now coming to light, including industrial overfishing, plastics pollution, agricultural effluent, overheating, and acidification: the depletion of the oceans and the escalation of marine extinctions are turning Earth's ancient womb into an expanding deathzone. Yet many of these adverse impacts have been escalating for some time largely unseen, or at least unheeded, in a realm far from the lifeworld of land-lubbing humans. Whilst the movement to protect charismatic marine mammals, along with efforts to safeguard commercial fisheries, chalked up some early successes for conservation, it is only recently that the scale of problems threatening marine life has been brought to wider attention, not least through the prophetic witness of David Attenborough's spectacularly successful 2017 television series, 'Blue Planet Two'. In the catastrophic horizon of an unfolding oceanic ecocide, then, this essay considers theological, scientific and poetic resources for re-imagining human relations with endangered marine others. For Christians specifically, I argue, responding to the cry of the oceans, in collaboration with those of other faiths and none, entails revisiting the theology of creation, affirming our creaturely kinship with beyond-human others, and considering what it might mean to practice neighbour-love towards fellow creatures, whose mode, time, and space of existence are so radically different from our own.

El Palacio, 1960

El Palacio [ISSN: 0031-0158 ] Table of contents: The early hunters -- The Intermediate gatherers and hunters -- The Puebloan and Pandhandle aspect intrusions -- Historic nomads -- References cited. Archaeology -- New Mexico -- History Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- New Mexico Panhandle Aspect Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Antiquities Hunting and gathering societies -- New Mexico Ancestral Pueblo culture -- New Mexico Pueblo Indians -- History Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities Comanche Indians -- New Mexico -- History Jicarilla Indians -- History New Mexico Llano Estacado Texas Panhandle (Tex.)

Fırat Üniversitesi Doğu Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2007

Landscape Planning, 2012

Alte Geschichte. Der Vordere Orient und der mediterrane Raume, 2012

Wolfgang Hameter & Sven Tost, Alte Geschichte, Wien 2012, 21-39

Palíndromo, 2024

Este artigo analisa a relação entre a tragédia social da agenda neoliberal e o dissenso político da arte participativa através de um caso concreto: a performance coletiva Batalha de Orgreave, do artista inglês Jeremy Deller. Realizada em 2001, a obra propõe, no plano da memória coletiva, a reencenação de um dos mais violentos conflitos do pós-Guerra entre as políticas neoliberais e a classe trabalhadora: o trágico ataque policial contra mineradores em greve perpetrado durante a era Margaret Thatcher, na Inglaterra, dezessete anos antes, em 1984. Para a reconstrução da batalha, Deller conta com a cooperação de cerca de mil participantes, centenas dos quais “veteranos” do conflito de origem, incluindo ex-mineradores e ex-policiais. A análise do evento é realizada a partir da teoria neo-aristotélica da “tragédia social” da socióloga Stephanie Baker, em articulação com os conceitos de “dissenso político” e “antagonismo” de Jacques Rancière, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe e Claire Bishop. Ao final, conclui-se que a elaboração coletiva de uma tragédia social, central em obras como essa, tem na mecânica da retração autoral um de seus prováveis limites políticos. ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the relationship between the social tragedy of the neoliberal agenda and the political dissensus of participatory art through a specific case: the collective performance Battle of Orgreave by Jeremy Deller. Carried out in 2001, the artwork proposes the reenactment of one of the most violent conflicts of the post-war period between neoliberal policies and the working class: the tragic police attack against striking miners perpetrated during the Thatcher era in England in 1984. For the reenactment, Deller relies on the cooperation of about a thousand participants, hundreds of whom are “veterans” of the original conflict. The analysis is based on Stephanie Baker’s “social tragedy” theory, in conjunction with the concepts of “political dissensus” and “antagonism” by Jacques Rancière, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Claire Bishop. In conclusion, it is argued that the collective elaboration of a social tragedy has in the mechanics of authorial retraction one of its possible political limits.

En el Quinto Centenario de la llegada de los tres primeros franciscanos a México, 2023

Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, “Los tres primeros franciscanos en Nueva España”, conferencia en el ciclo “En el Quinto Centenario de la llegada de los tres primeros franciscanos a Nueva España”, Centro de Estudios de Historia de México, Carso, miércoles 15 de febrero de 2023, 12 horas.