Color/Identity/Justice: Chicano Trials

This Book Review seeks to rectify in small measure the omission of color from American documents of black/white legal and political struggle. Enlarging the spectrum of struggle beyond the black/white paradigm not only works to correct the historical record of color in law, but also helps to advance the progress of color in society. As a starting point for this revision, the review turns to Ian F. Haney Lopez's new book, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Racism on Trial broadens and deepens the study of indigenous and immigrant legal and political struggle by documenting the defense of the Chicano movement in its rise out of the East Los Angeles Mexican community of California amid the turmoil of the 1960s

Impregnant formulation to the preservation, protection and consolidation of wood heritage assets

The protection of cultural heritage is an integral part of the world´s material wealth. The cultural heritage, movable and immovable, together with the natural environment, represents values that contribute to the education and social culture of the community. It also has a significant economic impact because, it represents the basic prerequisite for a tourism industry. Therefore, the modern developing based on non-polluting technological products for the protection of patrimonial is needed. Also, it is necessary to build a bridge between the basic knowledge generated as a product of scientific research and applied science. The knowing of what kind of deterioration occurs and how it impacts the physical-mechanical properties of the materials are important issues and, that must be considered so that the constructions made can be adequately conserved and/or consolidated. Wood was treated with an innovate formulation based on silanes (methyltriethoxysilane, MTES and noctyltryethoxysilane, OTES) to achieve the protection and the consolidation of the heritage assets. The performance of treatment about dimensional stability, fire and biodeterioration/biodegradation resistance was investigated. It was concluded that the treatment resulted effective as a protective and consolidate lasur system based on silanes by surface treatment for wood heritage assets.Fil: Alfieri, Paula Vanesa. Laboratorio de Entrenamiento Multidisciplinario para la Investigación Tecnológica; ArgentinaFil: Lofeudo, Rosana. Laboratorio de Entrenamiento Multidisciplinario para la Investigación Tecnológica; ArgentinaFil: Canosa, Guadalupe. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas. Centro de Investigaciones en Tecnología de Pinturas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Investigaciones en Tecnología de Pinturas; Argentina. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional; Argentin

Connected Floer homology of covering involutions

Using the covering involution on the double branched cover of the three-sphere branched along a knot, and adapting ideas of Hendricks-Manolescu and Hendricks-Hom-Lidman, we define new knot invariants and apply them to deduce novel linear independence results in the smooth concordance group of knots.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figure

Building Deeper Relationships: How Steppenwolf Theatre Company Is Turning Single-Ticket Buyers Into Repeat Visitors

Describes the company's strategies to engage all audience members, including through post-show discussions, special events, diverse online content, and equal treatment of subscribers and non-subscribers; outcomes; and contributing factors

Minimalismo e Rave Music attraverso Adorno. Ripetizione ed eterno ritorno dell'identico nella musica contemporanea

The paper proposes a focus upon two tendencies of contemporary music; the first is Minimalism, movement represented by musicians like La Monte Young, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, the second one is the rave music (like techno), feature of popular culture and postmodernist age. Through Adorno’s thought, and starting from his dialectical analysis about the dualism Schönberg-Stravinskij, this essay aims a philosophical understanding of concepts like “repetition” and “lack of transcendence”; the absence of development in a lot of musical production of the last decades, in popular music as much as in classical music, is demonstration of a loss of subject, where the “eternal return” of the rhythmic structure can be understood in terms of “eternal return of the same” and not in terms of “eternal return of possibility”

Adorno lettore della Metafisica di Aristotele

Metafisica raccoglie le lezioni tenute da Theodor W. Adorno all’Università di Francoforte nel 1965. In questa serie di lezioni, Adorno prende in riferimento alcune delle esperienze teoriche più significative che abbiano segnato la storia della filosofia dall’età classica alla contemporaneità. Se la seconda parte è dedicata alle sfide che la filosofia è costretta ad intraprendere nella modernità, nel mondo segnato da Auschwitz e dalle imposizioni dell’attuale società capitalistica, tutta la prima parte è una affascinante lettura (ovviamente critica) della filosofia di Aristotele, che in questa sede ci interessa particolarmente