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Buenos Aires - Inception Park on Vimeo
video  vimeo  park  inception  rollercoasters  argentina  buenosaires 
february 2012 by robertogreco
buenos aires: collective memory | line of sight
"That’s where Argentina seems to have failed. The collective memory of the oligarchy did not adapt to include immigrants. And those immigrants held tight to memories they could not pass on. Their children were caught in an identity crisis that is still visible today. Official attempts to revise history & demonization of anyone who disagrees with their cause are two recent examples of that conflict. Such unhealthy policies continue to prevent the formation of any type of collective bond."
buenosaires  assimilation  immigrants  nationalism  collectivememory  monuments  2012  robertwright  argentina  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Rebecca Solnit on Hope on Vimeo
"Despair is a black leather jacket in which everyone looks good, while hope is a frilly pink dress few dare to wear. Rebecca Solnit thinks this virtue needs to be redefined.

Here she takes to our pulpit to deliver a sermon that looks at the remarkable social changes of the past half century, the stories the mainstream media neglects and the big surprises that keep on landing.

She explores why disaster makes us behave better and why it's braver to hope than to hide behind despair's confidence and cynicism's safety.

History is not an army. It's more like a crab scuttling sideways. And we need to be brave enough to hope change is possible in order to have a chance of making it happen."
mainstreammedia  davidgraeber  venezuela  indigeneity  indigenousrights  indigenous  us  mexico  ecuador  anti-globalization  latinamerica  bolivia  evamorales  lula  cynicism  uncertainty  struggle  paulofreire  barackobama  georgewbush  humanrights  insurgency  hosnimubarak  egypt  yemen  china  saudiarabia  bahrain  change  protest  tunisia  optimism  future  environment  contrarians  peterkro  peterkropotkin  worldbank  imf  globaljustice  history  freemarkets  freetrade  media  globalization  publicdiscourse  neoliberalism  easttimor  syria  control  power  children  brasil  argentina  postcapitalism  passion  learning  education  giftgiving  gifteconomy  gifts  politics  policy  generosity  kindness  sustainability  life  labor  work  schooloflife  social  society  capitalism  economics  hope  2011  anti-authoritarians  antiauthority  anarchy  anarchism  rebeccasolnit  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
A Cinematic Novel: ‘Historias extraordinarias’ | Hydra Magazine
"The pleasure of watching Historias extraordinarias derives in large part from the sheer magnitude of the multiple narratives that propel the film forward.

…One such episode recounts a brutal robbery and mass killing using only photographs for visualization, creating suspense and terror from a deft sequencing of photo stills, a technique reminiscent of Chris Marker’s canonical masterwork, La jetée (1962). Another memorable section ingeniously weaves the actual work and biography of obscure Argentine architect, Francisco Salamone, into one of the central plot threads. To Llinás, fiction and nonfiction are perpetually on level terms.

The graphic textuality of Historias extraordinarias owes much also to the comic book and graphic novel medium. In an interview with Argentine novelist Alan Pauls, Llinás explains that one of the chief inspirations for the scenario was Hergé’s classic comic-strip series, Les Aventures de Tintin…"
intertextuality  narrative  storytelling  literature  alanpauls  franciscosalamone  narration  fiction  nonfiction  towatch  argentina  borges  2011  film  tintin  hergé  marianollinás  historiasextraordinarias  andrébazin  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Es Un Monstruo Grande Y Pisa Fuerte: 12 Latin American Protest Songs : NPR
"Esta semana en Alt.Latino les presentamos a varios artistas que denuncian la injusticia social. Es un show dedicado al arte de la canción contestataria. Tenemos íconos como Mercedes Sosa de Argentina, Chico Buarque de Brasil, Violeta Parra de Chile, y Ruben Blades de Panamá. Y también enfocamos en los trabajos de artistas mucho más jóvenes, que continúan la tradición: la cantautora mexicana Ceci Bastida, el dúo boricua Calle 13, y el rapero peruano Immortal Technique. Cantan sobre temas tan variados como el horror de la guerra, la necesidad de un sistema de educación más justo, la violencia en México, y el estatus político de Puerto Rico."
mercedessosa  argentina  perú  panamá  calle13  puertorico  chicobuarque  brasil  spain  españa  mexico  chile  violetaparra  deportee  manuchao  songs  protest  latinamerica  music  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Welcome to the Country Club - Architecture - Domus
"At the entrance to Alto Comedero is a sign that reads "Bienvenida al Cantri". That "cantri" is a phonetic misspelling of "country", but the joke is no worse for it. "Welcome to the Country Club." Driving in, you'll encounter a vast swimming pool, a Jurassic-themed playground and a replica of the Incan temple of Tiwanaku. These extravagant amenities nestle among row upon row of singlestorey houses. From a distance the terraces resemble a piece of working-class Liverpool, except here, in northwest Argentina, what appear to be chimneys are rainwater tanks branded with the face of Che Guevara. This is not really a country club; this is social housing—social housing as you've never seen it.

Alto Comedero is the largest of the communities built by a social movement called Tupac Amaru. Based in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, where Argentina approaches the border of Bolivia, Tupac Amaru claims to represent the neediest in society…"
argentina  tupacamaru  socialhousing  settlements  2011  altocomedero  gatedcommunities  hsutinmcguirk  jujuy  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Generalissimo - The Run of Play
"His presence on the pitch can be best characterized by an unlikely adjective for any physical activity—glib. He appeared to play with indifference but he always had the ball, which he received like a stray pill of mercury returning to its base. He didn’t run so much as he sauntered and ghosted past defenders the way you might expect a rakish dandy to push past his scrubbier competition in a cocktail lounge…

A handful of blog articles (now a small chorus) exist which wax romantic about how unsung Redondo’s genius is in an age of football that places a premium on pace and power…

Redondo was no media punta though. His was a modernist art of sleek order and functionality. He wasn’t a Makelele-type holding midfielder, either. In spite of his lithe elegance he was warhorse not a show pony. And yet, he didn’t simply destroy opposition attacks but rather coaxed them to irrelevance by channelling them into less dangerous areas because of his positioning."
futbol  football  sports  fernandoredondo  maradona  2011  argentina  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
PRE-Texts § Cultural Agents Initiative
"PRE-Texts© is an instructional program for teachers in schools and after-school centers to adopt and adapt techniques that enhance higher order thinking through hands-on engagement with literature. The program offers units of instruction that invite economically disadvantaged students to explore literature as recyclable material, re-writing classic texts through creative techniques that incorporate visual and performing arts. PRE-Texts© also encourages students to display their work in public performances, art exhibits, and entrepreneurial activities that involve the local community and feature dialogue between established writers and young people. It  is an ever-evolving program, and its underpinnings have been tailored to both a professional development curriculum and an after-school program for a range of students, from elementary to high school."
via:joguldi  literacy  literature  recycling  argentina  bookmaking  classics  performingarts  art  culture  classideas  curriculum  teaching  highschool  tcsnmy  k12  pre-texts  community  entrepreneurship  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Rafael Viñoly on a Sunday | Blogs | Archinect
"At a time when masses of people are protesting wealth inequality, or protesting, oh, the dismantling of schools like Cooper Union, it seems more than immodest to talk about the "one indulgence" of owning nine pianos. Or three homes. (How's that sustainability side of the business doing?) But at least he didn't mention the private jet (or did he have to tighten the belt?)

Meanwhile, some seem to be saying that perhaps Viñoly would benefit from a little more cover from the spotlight. All of this ostentatious display of wealth could draw scrutiny of Viñoly's period of building for the Argentine junta. There's that little detail that hangs over Viñoly's head—the busy period when he "was so concentrated on the work," he "almost didn’t notice the politics." Remember?"
rafaelviñoly  architecture  architects  wealth  disparity  2011  consumptions  incomegap  argentina  thesoulless  inequality  the99%  class  javierarbona  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Eye on Buenos Aires - Places - Dwell
"In this new feature, we present an architectural insider’s guide to a great design destination. This issue: Buenos Aires, Argentina."
architecture  travel  buenosaires  design  argentina  2005  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Guillermo Srodek-Hart / official website
guillermosrodek-hart  photography  buenosaires  argentina  art  umbanda  shrines  interiors  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Guernica / Forgotten but Not Gone
"There was at least one place, I would discover, where that “instant” of Borges persisted, a land where Borges lived on as both Borges and “I,” legend and life. That place is Texas. Starting in 1961, Borges made five visits to the state—first, to teach for a semester in Austin as a visiting professor; then to lecture on Cervantes and Whitman as a literary celebrity. When Borges died on June 14, 1986, the University of Texas’s main campus lowered its flags to half-mast, a rare tribute for a writer and a perplexing honor for one without deep Texas roots. Why had Texas so embraced Borges? And why had Borges continued to return there throughout the final twenty-five years of his life?<br />
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In early January, I began to investigate what seemed a long-forgotten romance."
borges  texas  history  ut  literature  childhood  reading  writing  aging  age  meaning  2011  kafka  kierkegaard  blindness  utaustin  carterwheelcock  ercibenson  argentina  waltwhitman  cervantes  ficciones  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - DEBTOCRACY (FULL - ENG Subs)
"For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media."
2011  greece  debt  finance  banking  imf  worldbank  odiousdebt  politics  economics  argentina  ecuador  eu  ecb  sovereignty  freedom  europe  olympics  arms  class  classwarfare  social  democracy  government  policy  corruption  goldmansachs  crisis  financialcrisis  healthcare  poverty  education  documentary  globalization  neoliberalism  theft  via:steelemaley 
june 2011 by robertogreco
CDI - Center for Digital Inclusion
"Our mission is to transform lives and strengthen low-income communities by empowering people with information and communication technology. We use technology as a medium to fight poverty, stimulate entrepreneurship and create a new generation of changemakers"

"Founded in 1995, pioneer of the digital inclusion movement in Latin America, CDI (Center for Digital Inclusion) is one of the leading social enterprises in the world with a unique socio-educational approach. CDI Founder and Ashoka Fellow Rodrigo Baggio and our work at CDI have been recognized with more than 60 international awards. Today, we are a network of 816 self-managed and self-sustaining CDI Community Centers throughout Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay – monitored and coordinated by our 32 regional offices."
education  design  technology  social  community  latinamerica  brasil  argentina  bolivia  chile  colombia  ecuador  mexico  paraguay  perú  uruguay  digitalinclusion  cdi  poverty  activism  digitaldivide  learning  grassroots  computers  software  ngo  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Lionel Messi - Boy Genius - NYTimes.com
"He is 23, with a grown-up’s income reported to exceed $43 million this year. Yet Messi still has a boy’s floppy bangs, a boy’s slight build and a boy’s nickname, the Flea. Even the ball stays on his feet like a shy child clinging to his father’s legs.<br />
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It is a boy’s fearlessness, enthusiasm, calm and humility, too, that help explain why Messi is already considered one of the greatest ever to play the world’s game."
lionelmessi  messi  2011  barcelona  argentina  football  futbol  soccer  sports  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
In Arming Libyan Rebels, U.S. Would Follow an Old, Dark Path - Max Fisher - International - The Atlantic
"The U.S. has a long, complicated, and dark history of arming rebel groups around the world…Argentina and Honduras…Chile…Nicaragua…Khmer Rouge…<br />
…cycle is a familiar one: rather than commit American lives to a murky & uncertain conflict, White House asks CIA to find or create local proxies that can do the fighting for us. We invariably find the most skilled fighters, most ruthless killers, who can best challenge or outright topple whatever regime—often communist, usually despotic & deserving of ouster—has earned American ire. But the conflict often escalates & turns for worse…<br />
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Violence begets violence, instability begets instability, and the U.S. tactic of arming rebels has been incredibly successful at fomenting both, but has done little to end either, often creating problems far outsizing those we originally meant to solve.<br />
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Neither the French nor the British share this sordid history with the U.S."
politics  history  intelligence  france  foreignpolicy  us  2011  libya  cambodia  honduras  nicaragua  chile  argentina  afghanistan  pakistan  cia  dirtywar  gorevidal  amnesia  taliban  gaddafi  uk  williamcasey  barackobama  josephlieberman  williamhague  pinochet  communism  coldwar  genocide  despotism  khmerrouge  vietnam  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Get-well wishes to Argentina's El Flaco whose football moved the world | Jonathan Wilson | Football | guardian.co.uk
"I maintain that a team is above all an idea," he said, "and more than an idea it is a commitment, and more than a commitment it is the clear convictions that a coach must transmit to his players to defend that idea. So my concern is that we coaches don't arrogate to ourselves the right to remove from the spectacle the synonym of festival, in favour of a philosophical reading that cannot be sustained, which is to avoid taking risks. And in football there are risks because the only way you can avoid taking risks in any game is by not playing … I start from the premise that football is efficacy. I play to win, as much or more than any egoist who thinks he's going to win by other means. I want to win the match. But I don't give in to tactical reasoning as the only way to win, rather I believe that efficacy is not divorced from beauty …"
césarluismenotti  argentina  football  soccer  philosophy  management  elflaco  2011  tactics  history  coaching  efficacy  beauty  risks  risk  via:cityofsound  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 39, Jorge Luis Borges
Too much to choose, but here's one interesting bit: "Now as for the color yellow, there is a physical explanation of that. When I began to lose my sight, the last color I saw, or the last color, rather, that stood out, because of course now I know that your coat is not the same color as this table or of the woodwork behind you—the last color to stand out was yellow because it is the most vivid of colors. That's why you have the Yellow Cab Company in the United States. At first they thought of making the cars scarlet. Then somebody found out that at night or when there was a fog that yellow stood out in a more vivid way than scarlet. So you have yellow cabs because anybody can pick them out. Now when I began to lose my eyesight, when the world began to fade away from me, there was a time among my friends . . . well they made, they poked fun at me because I was always wearing yellow neckties. Then they thought I really liked yellow, although it really was too glaring."
borges  interview  literature  writing  fiction  parisreview  1966  film  language  books  numbers  religion  colors  words  languages  oldnorse  metaphor  georgeeliot  childhood  robertlouisstevenson  treasureisland  marktwain  tomsawyer  huckleberryfinn  milongas  adolfobioycásares  rudyardkipling  kafka  henryjames  waltwhitman  carlsandburg  tselliot  poetry  josephconrad  argentina  buenosaires  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Junar · Discovering Data
"Junar let's you extract data from the web, and keep it updated as a Data Feed.<br />
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Track the data you care about, and arrange it into your own Dashboard. See our demo!<br />
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And the most important thing: it's for free."
junar  chile  argentina  onlinetoolkit  data  extraction  dataextraction  web  tracking  live  statistics  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Urinating on Jorge Luis Borges's grave was an artistic act, says Chilean writer | Books | The Guardian
"Book cover depicting Eduardo Labarca apparently urinating on author's grave provokes outrage in Argentina"<br />
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"Labarca told Argentina's perfil.com that Borges's talent as a writer had not been matched by his behaviour outside literature.<br />
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"Anyone who is offended by this is very short-sighted," he said. "Borges was a giant as a writer but I feel complete contempt for him as a citizen. As an old man, almost blind, he came to meet the dictator Pinochet in the days when he was busy killing."<br />
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Borges was delighted with Pinochet. "He is an excellent person," he said afterwards. "The fact is that here, and in my country and in Uruguay, liberty and order are being saved.""
chile  authors  argentina  politics  books  borges  pinochet  eduardolabarca  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
See the Elephant (full episode) | A Way with Words
"A woman in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, remembers a ditty she learned from her mother about “thirty purple birds,” but with a distinctive pronunciation that sounds more like “Toidy poipel blackbirds / Sittin’ on a coibstone / Choipin’ and boipin’ / And eatin’ doity oithworms.” Here’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers version.<br />
Martha offers excellent writing advice from the former editor of People magazine, Landon Y. Jones…<br />
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Another Argentine idiom goes arrugaste como frenada de gusano. It means “You were scared,” but literally, it’s “You wrinkled like a stopping worm.”"
argentina  words  writing  rhymes  rhcp  thirtypurplebirds  tonguetwisters  pronunciation  english  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists | Magazine | Granta Magazine
"From Borges to Bolaño, Spanish has given us some of most beloved writers of 20th & 21st centuries. But as reach of Spanish-language culture extends far beyond Spain & Latin America, & as US tilts towards majority Hispanic population, it is time to ask who is next…22 literary stars of future.<br />
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Andrés Barba –Spain, 1975<br />
Oliverio Coelho –Argentina, 1977<br />
Andrés Ressia Colino –Uruguay, 1977<br />
Federico Falco –Argentina, 1977<br />
Pablo Gutiérrez –Spain, 1978<br />
Rodrigo Hasbún –Bolivia, 1981<br />
Sònia Hernández –Spain, 1976<br />
Carlos Labbé –Chile, 1977<br />
Javier Montes –Spain, 1976<br />
Elvira Navarro –Spain, 1978<br />
Matías Néspolo –Argentina, 1975<br />
Andrés Neuman –Argentina, 1977<br />
Alberto Olmos –Spain, 1975<br />
Pola Oloixarac –Argentina, 1977<br />
Antonio Ortuño –Mexico, 1976<br />
Patricio Pron –Argentina, 1975<br />
Lucía Puenzo –Argentina, 1976<br />
Santiago Roncagliolo –Peru, 1975<br />
Andrés Felipe Solano –Colombia, 1977<br />
Samanta Schweblin –Argentina, 1978<br />
Carlos Yushimito –Peru, 1977<br />
Alejandro Zambra –Chile, 1975"
literature  chile  argentina  spain  españa  español  bolivia  mexico  colombia  perú  uruguay  spanish  literatura  novelists  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Transparency: Who Owns Antarctica? - Environment - GOOD
"It stretches 5.4 million square miles. It's freezing, inhospitable, and devoid of any native residents. Why, then, is the southernmost continent at the center of such contentious wrangling? We take a look at who owns what in Antarctica, and why the battles have recently grown more tumultuous."
antarctica  globalwarming  climatechange  environment  geography  territory  argentina  chile  uk  australia  newzealand  internations  norway  france  politics  visualization  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Un Techo para mi País
"MISIÓN: Mejorar la calidad de vida de las familias que viven en situación de pobreza a través de la construcción de viviendas de emergencia y la ejecución de planes de habilitación social, en un trabajo conjunto entre jóvenes voluntarios universitarios y estas comunidades. Queremos denunciar la realidad de los asentamientos precarios en que viven millones de personas en Latinoamérica e involucrar a la sociedad en su conjunto, logrando que se comprometa con la tarea de construir un continente más solidario, justo y sin exclusión."
activism  architecture  argentina  chile  haiti  perú  bolivia  brasil  latinamerica  colombia  costarica  ecuador  elsalvador  guatemala  honduras  mexico  nicaragua  panamá  paraguay  dominicanrepublic  uruguay  social  housing  volunteerism  glvo  yearoff  charity  community  untechoparamipaís  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
a m l - tres bibliotecas de borges
"en cierto sentido, claro, borges tuvo muchas bibliotecas—pero en este post me voy a limitar a tres."
borges  anamaríaleón  libraries  fiction  argentina  buenosaires  books  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Global Voices in English » Getting to Know the Global Voices Latin America Team
"As outgoing Editor for Latin America, I have seen the Global Voices team from Latin America grow tremendously over the past three years. Each of the volunteer authors has dedicated time and energy to serve the mission of Global Voices, and to share their part of the world with a global audience. At any given time, each of the countries that make up the Latin American region has been represented by a talented blogger tasked with the challenge of presenting a wide range of issues in a balanced and fair manner. Now that I am moving on to take the helm at Rising Voices, I am eager to see how the team will take the coverage of such a diverse region to greater heights under the leadership of the new Latin America Editor, Silvia Viñas. Continuing a recent tradition, let's meet some of these amazing people that have been part of the Latin American team (in alphabetical order by first name)."
globalvoices  blogs  blogging  chile  argentina  mexico  uruguay  colombia  perú  paraguay  costarica  guatemala  venezuela  latinamerica  dominicanrepublic  ecuador  honduras  panamá  nicaragua  bolivia  elsalvador  cuba  spanish  español  portuguese  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Homenaje al Ingeniero Arquitecto Francisco Salamone [adding to my Salamone bookmark collection]
Don't let the Spanish scare you away. Go read the English Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Salamone . Here are some choice quotes to get you started: "Argentine architect who between 1936 and 1940, during the Infamous Decade, built more than 60 municipal buildings with elements of Art Deco style in 25 rural communities on the Argentine Pampas within the Buenos Aires Province. These buildings were some of the first examples of modern architecture in rural Argentine." And "a notable and very personal combination of Art Deco, authoritarianism, functionalism, Italian Futorismo and propaganda on a vast scale"<br />
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"Relevamiento fotográfico de la sorprendente Obra de Salamone realizada en una veintena de municipios de la Pcia de Buenos Aires entre 1936 y 1940 y de las demás obras sin catalogar en numerosas ciudades de la República." If that's not enough to pique your interest consider that he primarily designed town halls, cemetery portals, and slaughterhouses.
franciscosalamone  architecture  argentina  futurismartdeco  functionalism  authoritarianism  futorismo  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Chris Moss on Psychoanalysing Argentina | FiveBooks
"all about Buenos Aires & feature duals, mythical figures, places w/ patios & grilled windows, & are full of a sense of his native Palermo. He sets ‘The Gospel According to St Mark’ out in the province, another region he loved to imagine. Borges’s fiction amounts to a metaphorical universe & he evokes a place I dream of visiting when I’m homesick for BA…Infinity beguiled him & the metaphor of the labyrinth expresses that. Of course, that comes from Greek classical literature but I think it might also be a simple way of articulating the grid-like layout of Buenos Aires, a city surrounded by the infinity of the Pampas, an urban labyrinth. He doesn’t write strictly topographically about BA but distils it into a metaphoric landscape."

"You have to remember that Argentina is one of the biggest meatpacking nations in the world & the sense of that goes beyond cows to the humans too. It’s a carnal nation with a history based on slaughter – that’s why the theme is so important."
argentina  chrismoss  borges  estebanecheverría  marianoplotkin  robertfarristhompson  tango  exequielmartínezestrada  history  culture  psychology  psychoanalysis  meat  palermo  violence  cities  buenosaires  fiction  music  nonfiction  elmatadero  literature  labyrinths  classics  urban  urbanism  landscapes  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Next Stop - Jujuy Region of Argentina Maintains Its Mystical Allure - NYTimes.com
"In a country likened more to Europe than the rest of Latin America, Jujuy stands apart.<br />
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Here, pagan rituals overshadow Catholic beliefs, medicine men are sometimes preferred to doctors, and everyone, regardless of ancestry, embraces an indigenous heritage that dates back to the 10th century.<br />
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“The culture of Jujuy has little to do with the rest of the country,” said Héctor Tizón, a renowned Argentine writer born in a small town near the province’s capital, San Salvador de Jujuy. “The culinary arts, the music, customs and architecture are autochthonous.”<br />
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But perhaps the most singular aspect of Jujuy is its dramatic landscape: more than 20,000 square miles of salt deserts, untamed jungles and an endless maze of multicolored rocky mountains rising up to 16,000 feet, threaded by a scenic ravine called Quebrada de Humahuaca — a onetime Inca trade route leading north to Bolivia, now a Unesco World Heritage site."
argentina  jujuy  bolivia  travel  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Tibio sol « Eterna Cadencia
"Con las imágenes es más difícil: está lo que se ve y está el alma de lo que se ve. Las fotos tienen clima, tienen alrededor, tienen momento. Ese momento no se ve en la foto, sino que se siente en ella. Las partes, entonces, son menos que el todo. Estas fotos de Yako muestran el 83. Están Alfonsín y Bioy, y Borges, y Cortázar, y los carteles, y las siluetas de los desaparecidos, y el amor en los parques, pero todo eso es lo menos importante. Es tan solo lo que se ve. Lo importante, tal vez, es que en estas fotos se siente el 83: lo que iba a ser y no alcanzó, los sueños apareciendo tibiamente otra vez, la nerviosa expectativa del nacimiento, la tristeza antigua y el cosquilleo de las ilusiones. En estas fotos no hay cínicos ni muertos: hay desesperados e ilusos, enojados o torpes, pero en todos los casos hay también un tibio sol de futuro que parece llegar. Que pareció llegar. Que aún no llega. No sé cómo hizo Yako para meter todo eso en estas fotos, pero les juro que está ahí."
daniyako  photography  argentina  1983  borges  juliocortázar  alfonsín  books 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Papeles inesperados: el último legado de Julio Cortázar - lanacion.com
"Hay que distinguir al coleccionista y al lector usual que, como diría Borges, es aquel que no fatiga bibliotecas. El lector que ha fatigado muchas bibliotecas, conoce como máximo la mitad de lo publicado. Y para el lector que conoce a Cortázar por los libros en librerías, prácticamente todo será una sorpresa inesperada. Cortázar como escritor aún hoy es un misterio. Cuando uno lee "Bestiario" o "Las armas secretas" tiene la impresión de que es esa clase de autor que escribe en la misma mesa que uno está sentado. No son demasiados, en la historia de la literatura contemporánea, los escritores como Cortázar."
argentina  juliocortázar  books  papelesinesperados  writing  2009 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Julio Cortázar, el del jazz - lanacion.com
"Jorge Luis Borges es, en el contexto de estas líneas, el de las milongas. Y Julio Cortázar, el del jazz.
borges  juliocortázar  music  jazz  milongas  argentina  gabrielgarcíamárquez  theloniousmonk  charlieparker  carlosfuentes 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Is Italy Too Italian?: From Taxis to Textiles, Italy Chooses Tradition Over Growth - NYTimes.com ["Roughly one-quarter of Italy’s G.D.P. is off the books."]
"Economists...see a country w/ a service sector dominated by guilds..., a timid entrepreneur class...a political system in thrall of older voters who want to keep what they have, even if it dooms the nation to years of stasis.
italy  argentina  guilds  economics  growth  politics  aging  age  policy  immigration  2010  stagnation  markets  china  globalization  local  slow  manufacturing  crisis  deficits  savings  society  decline  blackmarkets  offthebooks  protectionism  jobs  craftsmanship 
august 2010 by robertogreco
n+1: World Cup Preview [just two quoted here for a taste, other highlights are Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Switzerland]
"Argentina has world’s best player in Messi & lots of other talent...legendary Maradona, who is bat-shit crazy...recently had stomach stapled because after he quit using coke he got super-fat. When Argentina qualified for World Cup, he held perhaps greatest press conference in history of sport...repeatedly told Argentine press "Que la chupen y sigan chupando"...next day apologized to all women in world who heard him say these things, especially his mother, but pointedly not to journalists he had repeatedly insulted. He recently had two luxury bidets installed in hotel room"
worldcup  soccer  football  argentina  maradona  2010  sports  humor  countries 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Mejor en Bici - Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
"El Programa Bicicletas de Buenos Aires tiene como objetivo fomentar el uso de la bicicleta como medio de transporte ecológico, saludable y rápido. Este programa está en línea con las tendencias mundiales. Las grandes capitales del mundo, como París, Nueva York, Barcelona y Bogotá, han adoptado ya a la bicicleta como aliada estratégica para alivianar el problema del tránsito y para promover una Ciudad con prácticas sustentables."
buenosaires  argentina  bikes  biking  transit  transportation  activism  sustainability 
april 2010 by robertogreco
ReVista - Spring | Summer 2010 - Difference and Repetition: The Argentinean New Wave [via: http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=97467_0_24_0_C]
"Prolific writers and dedicated educators, the first generation of Argentinean émigré architects have remained instrumental in the field of architecture and their thinking continues to resonate today.
architecture  design  thinking  argentina 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Dinero y Política
"Dineroypolitica es una iniciativa de Poder Ciudadano que facilita el acceso a las rendiciones de cuentas presentadas por los partidos políticos y alianzas que compiten por cargos electivos nacionales."
argentina  budget  finance  governance  monitoring  transparency  politics  money 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Dinero y Política [Money in Politics] | Technology for Transparency Network
"Dinero y Política developed new modes of visualizing numbers and categories to provide more effective tools to analyze the financial panorama of politics in Argentina. Its platform has made it accessible for the average citizen who can quickly visualize and understand which candidates are funded by which corporations. Even more, she can compare different districts and different parties with informative graphics (graphs, bars)."
argentina  money  politics  information  funding  data  visualization 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Por Liniers.com // Sitio oficial del dibujante Argentino Ricardo Liniers
argentina  cartoons  comics  liniers  macanudo  buenosaires  illustration 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Down Argentine Way
"“I saw a really bad knockoff of one of my characters painted on a kiosk, and I felt like ‘Yes! I’ve finally made it!’  ” says Argentina’s Ricardo Siri Liniers, known by his nom de comics, Liniers. The artist is referring to one of the newsstands that line the streets of Buenos Aires and that sell an eclectic mix of magazines, comics, and high-brow literature. Homemade paintings of well-known comics characters often adorn the city’s kiosks: Homer Simpson is a favorite. For Liniers, the newsstand homage was proof of his growing influence in the Argentine comics scene, and of a movement from obscurity to cult status."
liniers  macanudo  buenosaires  argentina  comics  illustration 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Urgent Evoke - A crash course in changing the world.
"EVOKE is an online game designed to teach collaboration, creativity, knowledge networking, entrepreneurship, courage, resourcefulness, sustainability, and vision."
games  gaming  arg  janmcgonigal  collaboration  creativity  knowledge  networking  entrepreneurship  courage  resourcefulness  sustainability  vision  africa  janemcgonigal  argentina 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Southern Cone Travel: Dakar 2010 Takes Its Toll
"Safety and security, of course, are relative terms when it comes to fossil fuel “sports” such as off-road automobile and motorcycle racing. It’s certainly not secure for the plants and animals destroyed or killed by speeding vehicles as they tear up the desert and the Andean altiplano (the Chilean town of San Pedro de Atacama specifically requested Dakar to keep away from its natural and archaeological resources). And it’s not secure for humans - last year, the rally claimed three lives and, this year, Dakar 2010 needed only one day to take its first life, a spectator in Córdoba province. Five other spectators were injured."
racing  chile  argentina  sanpedrodeatacama  atacama  dakar  safety  sports  environment 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Diario Perfil | Entrevista a Carlos Fuentes - “Hay una frivolidad oficial en los gobiernos a partir de Perón”
"¿La Argentina de los años 40 y 50 no era “frívola”?
carlosfuentes  argentina  government  history  politics  policy 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Wooster Collective: “Paredes que hablan” (Talking Walls) - An Introduction to 16 Street Artists in Latin America
"Produced by INJAUS for I SAT, “Paredes que hablan” (Talking Walls) its a series of sixteen short films showcasing street artist in three cities of Latin America: Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City,
streetart  buenosaires  argentina  mexico  mexicodf  df  brasil  sãopaulo 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Sofia Rei Koutsovitis | Global Hit | PRI's The World [10272009.mp3]
"For our Global Hit today — we want to introduce you to a singer from Argentina. Her name is Sofia Rei Koutsovitis.
sofiareikoutsovitis  music  argentina  filetype:mp3  media:audio 
october 2009 by robertogreco
What Happened to Argentina? - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com [via: http://www.goodairs.com/2009/10/what-happened-to-argentina.html]
"A century ago, there were only seven countries in the world that were more prosperous than Argentina (Belgium, Switzerland, Britain and four former English colonies including the United States), according to Angus Maddison’s historic incomes database. In 1909, per capita income in Argentina was 50 percent higher than in Italy, 180 percent higher than Japan, and almost five times higher than in neighboring Brazil. Over the course of the 20th century, Argentina’s relative standing in world incomes fell sharply. By 2000, Argentina’s income was less than half that of Italy or Japan. ... Peronism was not only protectionist, but it also favored large state enterprises and significant regulation of the economy. Neither strategy has been particularly good for growth. Argentina’s inbred banking system has historically had trouble weathering severe shocks. Decades of political instability have made property rights insecure and investment unattractive." [See rest of post & comments that follow.]
argentina  economics  history  education  peronismo  protectionism 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Hello, Ojito! – Blog – BERG
Ojito --> "ojito, eh" --> Maradona, Kirchner, Gabriel Favale --> Supplemento al dizionario italiano --> Bruno Munari --> barbarakruger
comments  brunomunari  mattjones  berg  berglondon  logos  ojito  ojo  argentina  italian  language  gestures  barbarakruger  art  photography  design  glvo  books 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Razones para deprimirse - Columnistas - Perfil.com
"Como se sabe, algo imprevisto ocurrió después de las elecciones: el Gobierno recuperó la iniciativa a pesar de la derrota. Tras ratificar a sus funcionarios más cuestionados e insistir en sus políticas menos felices, en pocos días consolidó sus filas, obtuvo éxitos legislativos, maltrató aún más al campo, engañó a los que creían en el diálogo y hasta se apoderó del fútbol."
argentina  politics  2009  kirchners  loskirchner  government 
september 2009 by robertogreco
GESTIARIUM PROJECT [more here: http://www.gestiarium.blogspot.com/]
"La enciclopedia visual de todos los gestos del mundo"
argentina  italy  us  france  colombia  mexico  brasil  germany  gestures  glossary  dictionary  bodylanguage  language  communication  world  global  international 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Yo, argentino - GESTiarium project ||| [via: http://spanish.martinvarsavsky.net/general/yo-argentino.html]
""Yo, argentino" es un gesto que sirve para excusarse de involucrarse en una cierta situación. Sobre todo se usa para evadirse de situaciones comprometidas que involucran conflictos éticos, económicos, o interpersonales en general. Enunciado siempre en primera persona, el gesto es utilizado como sinónimo de "yo no me meto", o bien con un significado cercano al de no me hago responsable. Es equivalente al del lavado de manos de Poncio Pilato. Existen distintas formas de ejecutar el gesto, pero casi siempre consiste en abrir las manos y arquear levemente el torso hacia atrás, como haciéndole el "osooo...." al compromiso en cuestión."
argentina  humor  gestures  responsibility  bodylanguage  language  communication 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Doctored Data Cast Doubt on Argentina - washingtonpost.com
"Economists say the official inflation rate of 8.5 percent in 2007 was really about 25 percent. In the 12 months ended this June, the INDEC put the rate at 5.3 percent, but economists say it might be three times higher. Argentina's vaunted economic growth this decade might have been exaggerated, too. Credit Suisse said the 7 percent expansion the government reported last year is likely 2 to 3 percent lower. "
argentina  economics  policy  government  politics  kirchners  money  inflation 
august 2009 by robertogreco
In Argentina, Pepsi Logo Acquires Local Flavor : NPR
"Billboards have gone up in the past few days in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the familiar red, white and blue Pepsi logo, but under it is the word "Pecsi."
argentina  language  pronunciation  spanish  español  pepsi 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Las Caticrónicas
"Miriam Chepsy las bautizó. Textos nacidos en Internet, al compás de la crisis argentina, pasados por el cedazo de mi modo de ver las cosas, narran en clave de humor, ironía o nostalgia, diversos hechos que pueden resultar atractivos para el lector. Me conmueve saber que me leen en sitios tan distantes como Dallas, Texas o Fátima, en la Provincia de Buenos Aires. ¡Cómo me gustaría que quienes lo hacen me escribieran algunas de sus impresiones...! Un abrazo a todos."
argentina  blogs  culture  society  commentary 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Las Caticrónicas: 225-Teoría y práctica del ñoqui rioplatense
"Pero… ¡cuidado! porque si la idea multiplicadora se trasladara a otra acepción del vocablo “ñoqui”, nos veríamos rodeados de inútiles, zánganos o parásitos. Me refiero al hecho de que por estos pagos, a ciertos “empleados públicos” que obtuvieron un cargo merced a prebendas políticas y concurren a su lugar de trabajo para cobrar solamente una vez al mes, los días veintinueve, también se los conoce como “ñoquis”, en referencia a la costumbre alimenticia que nos caracteriza."
ñoquis  argentina  language  food  spanish  español  glvo  vocabulary  tradition 
july 2009 by robertogreco
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center: Exhibitions: Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
"Erlich has constructed a full-size pool, complete with all its trappings, including a deck and a ladder. When approached from the first floor, visitors are confronted with a surreal scene: people, fully clothed, can be seen standing, walking, and breathing beneath the surface of the water. It is only when visitors enter the Duplex gallery from the basement that they recognize that the pool is empty, its construction a visual trick fashioned by the artist. A large, continuous piece of acrylic spans the pool and suspends water above it, creating the illusion of a standard swimming pool that is both disorienting and humorous."
art  installation  illusions  argentina  sculpture  leandroerlich 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Change We Can’t Believe In: Financial Page: The New Yorker
"It’s no coincidence that this kind of panic has taken hold in Argentina: the country’s history of financial crises has made people there profoundly skeptical of the way markets work. The sharp spike in inflation in the past couple of years, for instance, was almost certainly exacerbated by Argentina’s previous experience with hyperinflation. Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they’re likely to increase prices, since they’ve learned that if they don’t, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked. In the same way, when it comes to holding onto coins, people hoard first and ask questions later."
money  coins  argentina  economics  change  risk  psychology  currency  buenosaires 
june 2009 by robertogreco
European Nations ‘as Bad as Argentina,’ Ferguson Says (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
"“It is a myth that countries don’t go bust, you only have to look at the history of Latin America to see that they do,” Ferguson told Bloomberg Television today. “When you look at the financial position of many European countries today, especially east European countries but also some west European countries, it’s every bit as bad as Argentina was in 2002.”"
argentina  economics  nigelferguson  crisis 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Buenos Aires Is a So-So Food City | Serious Eats [refers to: http://food.theatlantic.com/abroad/what-makes-a-great-food-city.php]
"According to Terrence Henry of The Atlantic Food Channel, Buenos Aires leaves much to be desired in terms of food and flavor. He notes that most restaurants use wood-fired grills, which he thinks blanket all foods with similar flavors. He also comments on the lack of variety in the street food available, saying that it is limited to empanadas." Counter-opinion here: http://mattbites.com/2009/05/31/buenos-aires-round-up/ See also: http://baexpats.org/newcomers-forum/4436-food-revolution-bypasses-buenos-aires.html
buenosaires  food  argentina  grilling 
june 2009 by robertogreco
FT.com / Weekend / Reportage - Argentina: The superpower that never was
"A short century ago the US and Argentina were rivals. Both were riding the first wave of globalisation at the turn of the 20th century. Both were young, dynamic nations with fertile farmlands and confident exporters. Both brought the beef of the New World to the tables of their European colonial forebears. Before the Great Depression of the 1930s, Argentina was among the 10 richest economies in the world. The millions of emigrant ­Italians and Irish fleeing poverty at the end of the 19th century were torn between the two: Buenos Aires or New York? The pampas or the prairie? "
argentina  us  economics  policy  politics  history 
may 2009 by robertogreco
universidad experimental [ux]
"espacio de autoformación, coinvestigación e innovación teórica de la ciudad de rosario, argentina"
argentina  rosario  learning  education  alternative  deschooling  unschooling  lcproject 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Plataforma Urbana
via (again): http://www.archinect.com/news/article.php?id=88967_0_24_0_M see also: http://www.archdaily.com/ AND http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuS0m9UqS6o
chile  architecture  blogs  español  spanish  argentina  santiago  urbanism  urban 
may 2009 by robertogreco
YouTube - Gran Cuñado 2009 - Cristina!
argentina  politics  humor  video  cristina  loskirchner 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Africa en Buenos Aires - lanacion.com
"Cada año, cientos de jóvenes del continente negro llegan a la Argentina escapando de guerras y miseria; de dónde vienen, con qué sueñan y qué piensan del país los vendedores de bijouterie que coparon el centro"
argentina  buenosaires  migration  immigration  africa  senegal  assylum 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Off the Shelf - Financial Fate, in Each Country’s Hands - Review - NYTimes.com
"The United States swiftly enacted the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Argentina ended up electing Juan Domingo Perón, who tried to seal off Argentina from the rest of the world economically. Over the years, the country would endure huge deficits, runaway inflation and a host of other maladies that contributed to economic collapse. To this day Argentina has not recovered." See also: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/04/false-economy-by-alan-beattie.html
books  argentina  us  economics  politics  perón  history 
april 2009 by robertogreco
The Soccer Project: Buenos Aires - A Love/Hate Relationship
"Instead of dance floors, Buenos Aires restaurants have futbol courts (except for the tango restaurants, which have both). There are clubs throughout the city and we wander into them. In Club Eros, the court is a checkerboard and the tables in front of it have white and green tablecloths, candlelight and bife de chorizo. Unlike Brazil, where you play for your right to stay on the court, in Argentina you need a hundred pesos to rent it out for an hour."
buenosaires  futbol  culture  soccer  sports  argentina 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Argentine Economics And Maker Culture
"My guess is, so long as the US dollar remains the global reserve currency, it’s going to be tough for local food and fashion to become a mass movement instead of a conscious political statement. While that may not be great news for the makers, it’s probably good economic news - as much as I like the steak, I’d be pretty unhappy if the Obama administration started looking to Argentina for macroeconomic advice."
argentina  economics  diy  culture  fashion  handmade  food  ethanzuckerman  worldchanging 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Comparing the U.S. to Russia and Argentina - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
"So our political class cheers on treasury-draining wars, allows financial elites to rob and pillage, witnesses huge transfers of wealth to the richest, and then when the whole thing explodes, the "real fiscal answer" is for ordinary Americans to have their Medicare benefits "slashed" and Social Security benefits reduced."
glenngreenwald  oligarchies  us  argentina  russia  finance  government  policy  corruption  collapse  bailouts  2009  barackobama  crisis  imf  politics  economics  banking 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Desmond Lachman -- Welcome to America, the World's Scariest Emerging Market - washingtonpost.com
"Like Argentina in its worst moments, we never seem to question whether it is reasonable to expect foreigners to keep financing our extravagance, and we forget the bad things that happen to the Argentinas or Hungarys of the world when foreigners stop financing their excesses. So instead of laying out a realistic plan for increasing our national savings, we choose not to face up to the Social Security and Medicare crises that lie ahead, embarking instead on massive spending programs that -- whatever their long-run merits might be -- we simply cannot afford."
us  argentina  finance  economics  meltdown  debt  collapse  crisis  politics  russia  imf  government  2009 
march 2009 by robertogreco
The Quiet Coup - The Atlantic (May 2009)
"In its depth & suddenness, the US economic & financial crisis is shockingly reminiscent of moments we have recently seen in emerging markets (& only in emerging markets): South Korea (1997), Malaysia (1998), Russia & Argentina (time & again). In each ... global investors, afraid that the country or its financial sector wouldn’t be able to pay off mountainous debt, suddenly stopped lending. ... that fear became self-fulfilling, as banks that couldn’t roll over their debt did, in fact, become unable to pay. ... But there’s a deeper & more disturbing similarity: elite business interests—financiers, in the case of the US—played a central role in creating the crisis, making ever-larger gambles, with the implicit backing of the government, until the inevitable collapse. More alarming, they are now using their influence to prevent precisely the sorts of reforms that are needed, & fast, to pull the economy out of its nosedive. The government seems helpless, or unwilling, to act against them."
via:preoccupations  2009  finance  banking  recession  depression  us  economics  imf  argentina  russia  korea  malaysia 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Chango Spasiuk: Sophisticated Accordion : NPR Music
" During the colonial era, northern Europeans took accordions all over the world. Ever since, folky wedding dances like the polka have been interbreeding with indigenous music styles in faraway lands. South America has produced some of the most elaborate examples, but even in that context, Chango Spasiuk stands out for his verve and virtuosity."
music  accordion  argentina  chamgospasiuk 
march 2009 by robertogreco
tomas maldonado
"born in buenos aires, argentina, in 1922, tomas maldonado attended the academia
art  design  industrialdesign  theory  argentina  history  italy  methodology 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Inside the world's most annoying economic crisis. - By Joe Keohane - Slate Magazine
"It's taken for granted that the peso coin is more valuable than the 2-peso note. " ... "The history of Argentina in the last 100 years is a story of great potential overwhelmed by a genius for acts of pointless economic self-destruction, but even for the Argentines, this is an exasperating state of affairs. The economy is still growing at a robust clip of around 8 percent year over year, but out-of-control inflation, estimated by independent analysts to be around 25 percent, has effectively devalued the currency, making it ironic that coins have become such an obsession. But an obsession they are, worthy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges' story "The Zahir," about a man driven mad by contemplating a single coin." ... "In some cases, 5s and 10s are effectively worth more than 100s... Save for large purchases, 100-peso notes are functionally useless—imagine trying to trade a bar of platinum bullion for a sandwich and a coffee."
argentina  currency  absurdity  economics  inflation  politics  crisis  culture  money 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Un mapa de la inseguridad, versión 2.0 - FayerWayer
"Desgraciadamente, en Argentina es tema de todos los días la inseguridad: es uno de los principales asuntos que más preocupan a los habitantes de este país. Cualquier persona, en cualquier lugar es una potencial víctima de la inseguridad. Es aquí, donde Mapa de la Inseguridad entra en juego. ¿Qué hace básicamente? Bajo el lema “Saber nos da Seguridad”, el sitio pretende ser una especie de registro visual, donde los usuarios puede notificar vía web o telefónicamente cuando y donde han sido víctimas de un delito."
argentina  buenosaires  maps  mapping  googlemaps  crime  security 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Berta's Restaurant in Old Town
"Berta's is located in a quaint, little cottage in the heart of Old Town where you’ll find some of the finest Latin American cuisine this side of Guatemala! Our atmosphere is casual and fun, and the food is delicious! So, come on down and see why we are the 1998 winner of the highly acclaimed Zagat Survey! AND why Berta's Latin American Berta's PatioRestaurant was awarded the 2001 Critics’ Choice Award from San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles!"
food  restaurants  sandiego  chile  argentina  brasil  uruguay  latinamerica  colombia  guatemala  venezuela  perú  costarica  spain  españa  cuba 
december 2008 by robertogreco
université tangente - tangential university
see "que se bayan todos 1" [http://utangente.free.fr/2003/quesebayan1.pdf] and "que se bayan todos 2" [http://utangente.free.fr/2003/quesebayan.pdf]
maps  mapping  visualization  argentina  cartography  diagrams  politics  economics  piqueteros  protest  capitalism  anticapitalism  cacerolazos 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Crisis [.pdf]
via: http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/remember-the-present/ via: http://kashklash.dreamhosters.com/currency-evolution-and-crisis/ via: http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/12/03/mobilisable-at-arts-deco-in-paris/
argentina  crisis  visualization  infographics  2001  world  credit  finance  history  mexico  japan  us  savingsandloan  economics  worldcom  enron  socialcurrency  currency  complementarycurrency  grameenbank  colombia  chile  uruguay  community  communitycurrency  prosumers  thailand  brasil  asia  realestate  bubbles  indonesia  philippines  malaysia  localcurrency  activism  filetype:pdf  media:document 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Remember the Present « Continental Drift [via: http://kashklash.dreamhosters.com/currency-evolution-and-crisis/]"
"This is an inquiry into the representations of crisis and the enactments of counter-memory in Argentina. The aim is to provide a discursive frame for some of the most impressive experiments in political art to have emerged around the turn of the millennium."
argentina  crisis  2001  finance  art  history  economics  politics  protest  imf  buenosaires  collapse  mapping  money  society  activism 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Ex Argentina: mapping the visual and political in Argentina
"La Normalidad (normalisation) was the theme for the third exhibition component of the Ex Argentina project which opened in Buenos Aries at the Palais de Glace on February 14th 2006. Ex Argentina was initiated by Andreas Siekmann and Alice Creischer after the dramatic economic collapse in Argentina in December 2001. They travelled to Buenos Aries in November 2002 to begin an investigation, through artistic methods, of the global and local power relations which precipitated this collapse and its aftermath. Through the exhibition program, and its associated discussions and publications, they hoped to create a geneology of the crisis in Argentina which would help foster a minoritarian and local critique capable of challenging the production of global knowledge on the collapse in Argentina, situating this within a global context."
argentina  crisis  2001  finance  art  history  economics  politics  protest  imf  buenosaires  collapse  mapping  money  society  activism 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Are Argentina's Cows Happy Eating Grain? - WSJ.com
"Argentina's fame as a home for happy cows wandering the lush pastures of the Pampas is being challenged as an increasing number of cattle are being crowded into feedlots for the last months of their lives before being served at the table." ... ""There is no turning back -- more than 50%, and likely 70% or 80%, of Argentina's cattle are going to be finished in feed lots within the next five years," the president of the Argentine Feedlot Chamber Juan Carlos Eiras told local daily La Voz del Interior."
argentina  meat  food  beef  cows 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986: Edgar J. Dosman: Books
""Mandatory reading for everybody interested in Latin America." Mariano Ben Plotkin, researcher at the Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social in Buenos Aires and professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero "A comprehensive and very readable account of a fascinating personality - this will, for some considerable period and perhaps forever, be the definitive source on Prebisch's personal life and career." Gerry Helleiner, Munk Institute for International Studies, University of Toronto" via: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/11/the-life-and-times-of-raul-prebisch-19011986.html
books  biography  economics  argentina  history  raúlprebisch  latinamerica 
november 2008 by robertogreco
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