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Bureaucracy and Politics in Mexico

The Case of the Secretariat of Programming and Budget

By: Eduardo Torres Espinosa

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Bureaucracy and Politics in Mexico

The Case of the Secretariat of Programming and Budget

By: Eduardo Torres Espinosa

First published in 1999, the main theme of this book is the relationship between bureaucracy and politics in Mexico. This examined though a study of the Secretariat of Programming and Budget, which came into existence in 1976 and was abolished in 1992. The book charts the rise and fall of the Secretariat over three presidential terms and gives an explanation of the chain of events that led to its disappearance. In doing so it underlines the significant impact hat institutional and bureaucratic factors have on group politics in contemporary Mexico.

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279

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Routledge

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0429860609

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9780429860607

Open Compositionality

Toward a New Methodology of Language

By: Eduardo García-Ramírez

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Open Compositionality

Toward a New Methodology of Language

By: Eduardo García-Ramírez

Open Compositionality: Towards a New Methodology of Language argues that natural languages, like English and Spanish, are not only systems of representation useful for communication but also highly interactive cognitive capacities allowing humans to engage in complex forms of cognition. This view goes against the orthodox approach within philosophy of language, which considers natural languages to be specialized systems consisting of only linguistic elements and functioning in a closed compositional manner, allowing for fully formal, algebraic descriptions. Eduardo García-Ramírez rejects the longstanding principle of compositionality, according to which the meaning of any complex expression is fully determined by its parts and the way they are combined, and he substitutes it with an alternative, open, and interactive one. This novel view of the nature of language better accounts for the empirical evidence. García Ramírez develops an account of open compositionality, accompanied by the cognition-first methodology, in which natural languages are conceived as supermodular cognitive capacities that allow for interaction among multiple distinct areas of human cognition. The explanatory success of this original proposal and its accompanying methodology are tested by the author’s account of three enduring philosophical problems: substitution failure, empty names, and the nature of moral discourse.

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243

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498562736

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9781498562737

Expanding Cinemas

Experimental Filmmaking across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic since 1960

By: Eduardo Ledesma

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Expanding Cinemas

Experimental Filmmaking across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic since 1960

By: Eduardo Ledesma

This is the first book on experimental cinemas of Latin American and Spain to offer a comprehensive look at old and new technologies, including Super 8, VHS, cell phones, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and more. From the militant films of the 1960s to today's expanded reality experiences, filmmakers in Argentina, Spain, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico have continually used alternative formats both to dialogue with international movements and to counter commercial cinematic trends. To make this argument and cover this vast geographic and historical terrain, Eduardo Ledesma adopts a transnational and intermedial approach, examining exchanges and associations between cineastes to better understand how their films were created and circulated. Ledesma works to untangle both the relations between media and the associations of experimental cinema to cultural phenomena such as diaspora, exile, displacement, and immigration. Throughout the book, connections are further made to other global avant-garde and alternative cinemas and formats, including in the United States.

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State University of New York Press

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9798855800524

Bureaucracy and Politics in Mexico

The Case of the Secretariat of Programming and Budget

By: Eduardo Torres Espinosa

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The Case of the Secretariat of Programming and Budget

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Bureaucracy and Politics in Mexico

Bureaucracy and Politics in Mexico

Open Compositionality

Open Compositionality

Expanding Cinemas

Expanding Cinemas

Bureaucracy and Politics in Mexico

Bureaucracy and Politics in Mexico

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