This article examines the representation of migrant caravan on Instagram showing how an aesthetics otherness has prevailed in this representation. Aesthetics is result interaction between platform users’ selections and affordances that creates a gap marginalized other user. Based qualitative content analysis posts with hashtags #caravanamigrante #migrantcaravan, research reveals two form parall...

Screen images of old lesbians combine modes of representing female gender, lesbian sexuality, and old age, all of which contain layers of otherness within a hetero-patriarchal and youth-centered society. Analyzing a range of films, from independent to mainstream cinema, this article explores how the ghosted lesbian paradigm intersects with narratives of aging as decline in representations of le...

Abstract Intended as a branch of synthetic biology, xenobiology aims to design and build non-standard life forms, that is constructively venture into biological otherness. According this creative speculative character, it challenges the principles biology itself, which tied fundamentally reductionist approach. Xenobiology does not treat closed code, but rather field ontological innovation; in s...

Despite the dominant presence of the Andes Mountains in Chile, the country’s identity as an “Andean” nation, culturally speaking, has never been secure. As a nation ruled by Spanish, British and German descendants, with a majority of the population consisting of creoles and mestizos with no roots in indigenous Andean communities or cultures, “Andean” identity has in fact often been resisted by ...

Introduction: Why Dialogue with Dewey Today? John Dewey was engaged, throughout his work, in the reconstruction of American democracy and education. Committed to that philosophy for and in action that is pragmatism, a philosophy for solving the problems of human beings, he addressed himself to what he saw as the crisis of democracy in twentieth-century America. In 1927, discussing the erosion o...

This paper provides an exploratory dimension to the current smart city discussion by regarding the smart city as a heterotopia space – a space of otherness. By adopting a Foucauldian approach, this paper briefly describes the ‘discursive formation’ of the smart city by analysing its ‘surfaces of emergence’, ‘authorities of delimitation’, and ‘grids of specification’, in order to capture the sma...