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La aceleración en la lógica del capital

El trabajo retoma la argumentación de Hartmut Rosa sobre la aceleración como principio tendencial de la modernidad, ahondando en las razones (los “motores”) que producen dicho proceso. Uno de esos motores, el que aquí se analiza en detalle, es el de la…

Editorial

There is a saying, ‘do not paint the devil on the wall’, which is commonly taken to mean that one should, for all intents and purposes, avoid portraying something in an overly negative or exaggerated way. The German origin of the proverb is even more i…

Guess who did the crime?: The Facial Composite Game

By Eliseo Ortiz (University of Colorado Boulder) In 1878, British psychologist Francis Galton wrote about the significance of photography in policing and incarcerating populations. Together with the famous jailer Edmund Du Cane, Galton investigated cri…