Browsing by Autor "Gregory J. Lobo"

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Diccionario de estudios culturales latinoamericanos
(Universidad de Los Andes, 2011) Gregory J. Lobo
LA BELLA Y LA BESTIA: COLOMBIA ENTRE EL CONSENSO Y LA COERCIÓN, O SOBRE EL MULTICULTURALISMO Y LA VIOLENCIA RACIAL NEOLIBERAL
(University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, 2008) Gregory J. Lobo
National construction and popular erasure in Colombia
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020) Gregory J. Lobo
Abstract This article analyses the diachronic symbolic struggle (1810–1991) waged in Colombia’s foundational documents over the legitimation and delegitimation of social relations through the concepts “people” and “nation.” Following the introduction, the method and theory are explained: concept analysis and language-based social ontology. The analysis of the foundational documents follows. These are analysed as extended status function declarations that attempt to legitimate and delegitimate the concepts “people” and “nation”, in order to authorize/deauthorize possible social relations. On the basis of the analysis, the conclusion briefly specifies the discourse of nationism as the ontologisation and wielding of the idea of the nation against internal dissent/opposition, and points up the fundamental importance of symbolic practice in the struggle to change social reality.
O conceito de “milagre” da maternidade pode estar na origem da imaginação e da linguagem humanas
(2025) Gregory J. Lobo
¡POLITICEMOS SIEMPRE! O, LA CULTURA COMO LA POLÍTICA-QUA-CULTURA
(Universidad de Los Andes, 2002) Gregory J. Lobo
The political interpretation of culture remains a problematic endeavor. The problem lies in the competing and differing understandings of culture that are current in critical discourse. This article examines the two major ways culture is used —referring to either the arts and intellectual life, or a specific way of life, following Raymond Williams— and shows how both cultures are, in their specific ways, political, that is, constitutive of hierarchical social organization. The argument then is not that culture can be understood politically, but that it has to be understood and interpreted politically, that culture is, in fact, politics-qua-culture.
René Girard’s Science of Religion: The Scapegoat Mechanism, Prefrontal Synthesis, and Collective Intentionality in the Process of Hominization
(Wiley, 2024) Gregory J. Lobo
This article discusses René Girard’s “science of religion,” examining its central idea—variously called the scapegoat, victimage, or founding mechanism—and its role in the process of hominization in light of the neuroscientific concept of prefrontal synthesis and the related philosophical concept of collective intentionality. The latter concepts, it is argued here, while unavailable to Girard himself, offer a way to make more scientific sense than is present in his account of the scapegoat mechanism in relation to hominization and his related and radical notion that “human culture and humanity itself are religion’s children.”