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The Handling of Chronotope. The Candidature of the Chapada do Araripe Socio-Biodiverse Basin for UNESCO World Heritage Status

In this essay, we address, in a tentative and tangential manner, the ways in which the sciences are called upon to manifest themselves at the heart of a UNESCO Candidature process for the Chapada do Araripe to be recognised as a ‘mixed heritage site’. This process is based, ipso facto, on an enormous depth of geological and palaeontological time and subordinates it to the continuity and preservation of its ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ aspects in the present and future. According to UNESCO criteria, created in the 21st century, ‘mixed heritage’ specifically refers to the association or inseparability of these aspects. We consider that this specific candidature process has an anti-confiscatory appeal, that is, of resistance and alternative to the various confiscations that are now under way in the Chapada region, and to the pitfalls that heritage institutions and policies may imply in this sense.

Semiotic disaster {and extinction}

This speech was induced by an episode that took place during the first few weeks of classes in a compulsory subject for Social Sciences students at a public university in the south-east of Brazil this year. By understanding it as an episode of what I have come to call the Semiotic Disaster, I will try to suggest that this episode is just a local expression of our ecology, the political result of which is the appearance of a new governing subject, the user, us, whose perceptual-cognitive characteristics are, to say the least, peculiar.

Efectos de mutuo arrastre

Tras varias presentaciones públicas del libro (y más de 14 ciclos lunares), comparto ahora mi contribución a este proyecto que, entre otras cosas, me hizo pensar y escribir desde una sensibilidad distinta a la que estaba acostumbrada. […]