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The notion of languaging provides a new understanding of the intimate relationship between sociality and language. In this paper, I address the evolutionary emergence of language by subscribing to the autopoietic theory of natural drift. I show that this systemic approach to evolution can offer the ideal epistemological background to evaluate the role of languaging throughout hominization. The central idea is that the languaging-based way of living acted as an attractor for the evolutionary process. This claim relies on three interrelated assumptions: 1) behavioral and relational habits may channel the course of genetic and structural change; 2) recursive coordination and specific forms of sociality set the systemic conditions for coexistence-through-languagingto be conserved over generations; 3) the conservation of these systemic conditions gives rise to a spiraling, positive-feedback process that involves body, cognition, and culture.

This paper addresses the relations between migrants, mobility, tactics, negotiation, and the contemporary definition of borders in the aftermath of 9/11.The empirical focus of this paper is how Brazilians from Alto Paranaiba journey through airports located in the Schengen area and in the British territory to London. As a main research orientation, I use the notion of journey as approached by mobility studies, where actions and skills remain an important link between the wayfarer and the social space in which s/he moves through, the embodied practice to how we grasp the world. Migrants deal and struggle against border regime, but they are not powerless social actors. They rather produce creative resistance to reinvent their journey through the surveillance apparatus, which manage and delimit places with targets and threats. In this process, I explore the notion of border crossing movement as a tactical mobility developed by migrants to overcome the border control imposed by governments in airports. The article was drawn through fieldwork conducted initially in London, between 2009 and 2013, and afterwards in Alto Paranaiba, during 2013. The ethnographic study consisted in semi-structured interviews, participant observation through snowball technique, which enabled me to access a considerable number of participants in these two regions explored. The argument that I develop is that migrants as social actors are part important in the dialogue produced between border crossing and border reinforcement.

This article is part of the results of research project. We investigated the Buenos Aires city’s cultural industries from the early twentieth century and the end of the begin of War World Second. In this context, my interest is to observe path of a pioneer of show industry, photographer, director, producer, distributor, etc., the busissman Austrian Max Glücksmann. Along the transformation that lived the city of Buenos Aires since the late nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century and changes the technique appeared intuitive immigrants, busissman and seeking a commercial return built the entertainment market in Argentina. This paper attempts to give keep up with the first steps of Glücksmann, an immigrant such as employee Lapage Photography house that was in the center of Buenos Aires, soon pasar to be his manager and culminate as the owner of it. And from this space, in the course of the twentieth century to become one of the entrepreneurs of the cinematography and the record industry in Argentina. For this, we will use of graphic sources of the time trying to make a reconstruction of the cultural circuit where developed. As also noted the growth of the city, the locals begin to circulate and appearing as potential consumers of different products. From the observation of the marketing methods such as advertising, and analyzes of how was organized the House Lapage, identify as Max Glüscksmann becomes manager of trade and look at the itinerary of decisiones he took and how they helped to shape the entertainment market of the city of Buenos Aires.