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Systemic Corruption

Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic

By: Camila Vergara

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Systemic Corruption

Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic

By: Camila Vergara

A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracy This provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay first conceptualized by ancient philosophers. Systemic Corruption argues that the problem cannot be blamed on the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the very fabric of our representative systems. Camila Vergara provides a compelling and original genealogy of political corruption from ancient to modern thought, and shows how representative democracy was designed to protect the interests of the already rich and powerful to the detriment of the majority. Unable to contain the unrelenting force of oligarchy, especially after experimenting with neoliberal policies, most democracies have been corrupted into oligarchic democracies. Vergara explains how to reverse this corrupting trajectory by establishing a new counterpower strong enough to control the ruling elites. Building on the anti-oligarchic institutional innovations proposed by plebeian philosophers, she rethinks the republic as a mixed order in which popular power is institutionalized to check the power of oligarchy. Vergara demonstrates how a plebeian republic would establish a network of local assemblies with the power to push for reform from the grassroots, independent of political parties and representative government. Drawing on neglected insights from Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas de Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt, Systemic Corruption proposes to reverse the decay of democracy with the establishment of anti-oligarchic institutions through which common people can collectively resist the domination of the few.

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Princeton University Press

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0691211566

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Systemic Corruption

Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic

By: Camila Vergara

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Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic

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Modernity at the Movies

Cinema-going in Buenos Aires and Santiago, 1915-1945

By: Camila Gatica Mizala

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Modernity at the Movies

Cinema-going in Buenos Aires and Santiago, 1915-1945

By: Camila Gatica Mizala

Cinema can both reflect the world as it is and offer escape from it. In Modernity at the Movies, Camila Gatica Mizala explores the ideas of reflection versus escapism and examines how modes of understanding the current moment emerged through the practice of going to the movies in Santiago and Buenos Aires between 1915 and 1945. Using cinema and variety magazines published in both cities, she analyzes the technology, architecture, attendance, behavior, language, censorship, and overall experience of cinema-going. These publications regularly engaged with important topics such as morality and urbanization and helped build a cinematographic audience. Gatica Mizala brings together the perception and reception of cinema as a modern art form, shifting the focus from the production of films to the experience of the audience when viewing them. By focusing on the audience instead of the films, this study is able to articulate the ways that cinema, as a modern activity, was incorporated into everyday life and discuss what it meant to be modern in early to midcentury Latin America.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822989735

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9780822989738

Does Social Media Have Limits?

Bodies of Light & the Desire for Omnipresence

By: Camila Mozzini-Alister

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Bodies of Light & the Desire for Omnipresence

By: Camila Mozzini-Alister

This book is a vibrant investigation on a deeply human subconscious desire: the desire for omnipresence, or in a nutshell, the desire to be here, there, and everywhere at the same time. After all, why is it not enough just to be in the offline ordinariness of the here and now? To answer this question, Camila Mozzini-Alister does the crossing of two seemingly distant universes: mediation and meditation. Throughout a vigorous archaeology of the relationship between screen and mind allied with an engaging first-person narrative, the author raises awareness of the risks of becoming addicted to social media and obsessed by meditation. This brings forth a vital question: what are the limits for the desire to be more than a body?

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Springer Nature

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3030741206

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Much more than euthanasia. The evolution and core of the emerging right to die with dignity in Colombia

By: Lucas Correa-Montoya,Camila Jaramillo-Salazar

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Much more than euthanasia. The evolution and core of the emerging right to die with dignity in Colombia

By: Lucas Correa-Montoya,Camila Jaramillo-Salazar

This publication has four objectives which are pursued in three chapters. First, it synthesizes and describes the emergence of the right to die with dignity in Colombia, analyzing how it was born, how it has evolved, and how it has been consolidated in recent decades, proposing a genealogy of the process that allows us to understand and communicate it. Second, it reflects on the law as an instrument of social change: it uses the path of the emergence and evolution of the right to die with dignity as a successful case—despite its difficulties and limitations. These two objectives are developed in the first chapter. Third, the publication examines Colombia's current state of the right to die with dignity. It explains its legal nature and core obligations and discusses the mechanisms available to exercise it and the criteria that must be met to access them. The second chapter develops this objective. Finally, in the conclusion of the text, it identifies the challenges that we will face in the future, not only in Colombia but also in Latin America, when it comes to the right to die with dignity, that is, the recognition, expansion, and deepening of the possibility of making free and autonomous decisions about the end of life.

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Book's by Camila Vergara

Systemic Corruption

Systemic Corruption

Systemic Corruption

Systemic Corruption

Modernity at the Movies

Modernity at the Movies

Does Social Media Have Limits?

Does Social Media Have Limits?

Much more than euthanasia. The evolution and core of the emerging right to die with dignity in Colombia

Much more than euthanasia. The evolution and core of the emerging right to die with dignity in Colombia

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