Territorios de sacrificio. Un dispositivo biopolítico de control para la apropiación y degradación de la vida en México

Through a historical and theoretical review of the urban planning of the state of Puebla in central Mexico, this text gives an account of the way in which the regional metabolism has led to the generation of sacrificial territories for the purpose of extraction and appropriation from the set of living forces or from the vital power on which capital feeds: energy, arable land, water assets and human labor. We investigate the proposal of the struggles of the South, from whom we return to the category of production of territories of sacrifice, as well as the analytical proposal of the bodies-territories as spaces of resistance of academics and feminist activists, to understand the logic of the degradation of the life of a particularly indigenous territory Santa María Zacatepec, Puebla, an indigenous people that for more than 10 years have resisted against the sacrificial projects.

General psychological theories of development, study and education

Presentation of the chapter from the book by Maksymenko, S.D. (2018). Psychology of human learning: genetically-modeling approach. Kyiv. The monograph considers the personality, its sources, structural components and its inward world in terms of genetic psychology. The principles for construction of experimental genetic and genetically-modeling methods as the most adequate for explanation of laws and mechanisms of appropriation, formation and development of human abilities and genesis of personality development are presented for the first time. Genetically-original units of various abilities and “needs” as sources for stimulating activity of individual (Latin: Vis vitalis - vital power), its deepness and initial unity (synthetic character) (Latin: Vis vitae - vital force) that constitutes the personality are presented. The following fundamental analysis is made: - theory of learning as a way for development and self-realization of personality; - study as a public form for management of learning and personality development; - learning as a direct and by-product of study. The following specific peculiarities for needs (in vital force or vital power) were found: - energy informative virtues of human in onto- and phylogenesis; - genetic psychological problems, as well as personality structure were fixed; - sources and driving forces of personality activity were proved (presented); - fundamentally new personality structure, its forecast for development and life way; life (existence) of human; realization of love and needs and motivational regulators for life way of personality inward space

Poder vital e o legado de florence nightingale no processo saúdedoença: revisão integrativa The vital power and the legacy of florence nightingale in the health-disease process: integrative review

Objetivo:.Caracterizar as evidências científicas nacionais dos últimos dez anos sobre Florence Nightingale e o poder vital e sua aplicabilidade na enfermagem, além de identificar os conceitos sobre poder vital. Método:.Revisão integrativa da literatura de artigos nacionais completos, por meio de quatro bases de dados. Foram selecionados sete artigos após a aplicação dos critérios de inclusão e exclusão. Da análise surgiram os temas sobre o legado de Florence e a ação do meio ambiente interno e externo sobre o poder vital. Resultados:.A maioria dos estudos focou o ambiente de inserção do indivíduo como fortalecer do poder vital e esta classificada como força interior. Conclusão:.Os profissionais de enfermagem ocupam um papel imprescindível na observação em manter o ambiente onde o paciente está inserido, favorecendo o fortalecimento do poder vital, destacando a presença do acompanhante como fortalecedor desse poder vital no processo de hospitalização.Descritores: Puerpério, Parto, Enfermagem.

Is the New Paradigm in the Balkans Old Enough? An Introduction to Postpoetics, the First Step

The paper circles around difficult issues that concern the relationship between life and poetry, trying to create a new paradigm through their ultimate identification. Poetry of life might prove to be the oldest paradigm for both literature and human existence and a challenge for this millennium. As paradigmatic literary feasts from Homer’s Iliad to the love dinner in Pavić’s best-selling novel Dictionary of the Khazars show, representations of real life are not the only thing making a poetic creation ‘seem’ alive. A Homeric transgression from tragedy to the vital power of poetry, embodied in Achilles’ transformation from a hero into a poet, comes after politics and after poetics. It also appears to be necessary if we truly wish to eradicate old conflicts and prejudices that have haunted the Balkans, among other parts of the world, for too long.

Vital power of postpartum women during nursing home care

This is a qualitative and convergent-care study, using the framework of the Carraro Care Model, with the aim to identify how the variables that can interfere in the vital power of postpartum women manifest during home care provided by a nurse. Data were collected between April and June of 2011, using the Carraro Care Model during home visits for four women experiencing immediate and late postpartum. In the course of the home visits, the manifestations of variables interfering in the vital power of these women were diverse, oscillating between neutrality, negativity and positivity when faced with the cared provided, oriented and discussed. By identifying these manifestations, it is believed that the nurse can plan, act and evaluate the care provided, thereby positively influencing the vital power of postpartum women.

Blake's Living Form

This essay reads William Blake's illuminated work Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion as a key instance of living (or organic) form conceived according to biological principles in the period of Romantic vitalism, 1760––1830. At this time, the Aristotelian theory of epigenesis was revived in the European scientific community as a way to comprehend embryogenesis as a process of self-generation motivated by internal, vital power. This theory, current in the science of generation, conflicted with another theory called "preformation," which was closer to a creationist view of organic life. A careful look at the kind of material organizations made possible by vital power (a concept that went by various names, from vis essentialis to Lebenskraft to Bildungstrieb) reveals these to be relevant to the aesthetic organization of Jerusalem. Organic form, despite received wisdom, did not always entail closure or the ideology of "reproduction." Instead, modeling the power of regeneration, Blake develops a unique brand of epigenesist poetics.

The common fate of the European man and philosophy

From the antiquity, science and philosophy have formed an inextricable unity and also from the period of Renaissance philosophy and the modern scientific spirit have influenced the destiny of the European man. But the contemporary crisis of philosophy, according to Husserl, results from the fact that it has lost its own essence and ceased to be the force of the fundamental transformation of man. So the European man cannot rely any more on philosophy as the medium of universal liberation. Showing the actuality of Husserl's ideas from The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology the author considers that it is of crucial importance to overcome this crisis by founding of new philosophy, which would be appropriate to 'the spiritual Europe'. Science, as well as philosophy, must revindicate their vital power from politics, returning to the hellenistic ideals, that are also stressed by Husserl, too. Since the crisis of European values originates in the crisis of its science and philosophy, and that crisis is common to philosophy and the European man, the essential connection between them should be re-established by reviving the hope in the inappreciable value of the community of the European man and philosophy through the discovery of a new image of philosophy in the time when it seems that it has lost its former significance.

Symbols of Vital Power in Norwegian Folktales

No abstract available