Translated by R. Scott Walker At the end of the sixteenth century, Friar Juan de Torquemada watched the game of volczdor on the central plaza in Mexico.’ At the top of a pole some twenty meters high there was a small pivoting platform. Four ropes were wound around the top of the pole and held in place by a wooden frame. Five men dressed in feathery costumes making them look like birds climbed up the shaft. One of them reached the narrow platform and began to dance. Then the other four bird-men tied themselves to the ends of the ropes and plunged into space, head down, held by the ropes around their waists. This initiated a spectacular circular flight in

Les jeux et les hommes

Aztecs and Games

A partir de las teorias sobre el simulacro del filosofo frances Jean Baudrillard, asi como del analisis del posmodernismo como resultado de la logica cultural del capitalismo tardio de Fredric Jameson, y de los postulados mas recientes de Eloy Fernandez Porta sobre la evolucion de la cultura hacia el paradigma estetico del afterpop, nos proponemos estudiar en este articulo las caracteristicas del "realismo de alta definicion" definido por Juan Francisco Ferre a proposito de su penultima novela "Providence"(Anagrama, 2009). Se trata de proponer una reflexion critica sobre el poder de la imagen digital asi como mostrar que la ficcion literaria es todavia capaz de competir con la realidad virtual.

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El realismo "full hd" de Juan Francisco Ferré

Introduction: Poetry Games

Hume asserted that sympathy does not allow judgements to be made on what is just or unjust, because it is partial. In response Smith highlighted a practical procedure by which sympathy (a relation which mobilise one actor and one spectator, by definition) could free itself from the limits of partiality. The result of this procedure was the construction of the impartial spectator. The design of the sympathy requires the actor to make an effort which is not self-evident. It requires self-control which can only be acquired from experience. Morever, the Theory of Moral Sentiments provides an explanation for greed. For Smith, the love of systems, essentially an aesthetic principle, explains the accumulation of riches, independently of their utility. Smith stressed it is an illusion, in as far as the person experiencing such a love of systems is ignorant of it. In particular, the love of systems concerns not only limitless enrichment. Its field of application is vast, as it also covers political practices and scientific activity. In Chapter 4 of this book, I show how this love of systems is used, according to Smith, by the proponents of the mercantile system to seduce its victims.

The Rules of the Game

Das 17. Jahrhundert gilt in der Historiographie als Zeitalter der Krise. Der Aufsatz behandelt vor diesem Hintergrund die Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungsformen der Zeitgenossen und verfolgt die These, dass sich diese Formen im Laufe des Jahrhun­derts zunehmend verandern. Entscheidend hierfur ist die Medialitat des Spiels, in welcher Wahrscheinlichkeit, Risiko und Kontingenz eine zentrale Rolle spielen.

Les jeux et les hommes

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Aztecs and Games

El realismo "full hd" de Juan Francisco Ferré

Introduction: Poetry Games

The Rules of the Game

Kalkuliertes Risiko Die Medialität des Spiels im Zeitalter der Krise (17. Jahrhundert)

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