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This paper came about from an astonishing observation of the usual, the commonplace, the ordinary, and even more profoundly, of the infra-ordinary. In recent years, the appropriation and instrumentalisation of the commonplace has become a recurrent practise. We propose examining the transition from the infra-ordinary towards the extraordinary using a peculiar form of representation through drawing. We will attempt to highlight certain forms of representing projects that have been characterised over the last ten years by an awareness of the lack of economic and environmental resources, raising the visibility of every-day actions in the urban, architectural and artistic environment. The infra-ordinary allows us to reveal the subversive potential of the commonplace to sometimes become extraordinary experiences. In short, the infraordinary is extraordinary, and the seed of the extraordinary lies in the commonplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. This paper stems from an investigation to characterize the political kidnapping by the FARC in Colombia. Objective. To Develop the profile of the guerrilla who would succeed the legality if the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC. Materials and methods. It is a descriptive exploratory research based on content analysis, from the reading of seven books whose authors were victims of political kidnapping by the FARC. Results. The guerrilla reaches almost always very young squad, hunger, fear, need or belief; It is inserted in a rigid and vertical organization structure, whose ideology is easily indoctrinated, because almost always come poor, will cove that speech. It fits almost always easy to the jungle, but develops insensitivity to people's lives, even animals. The bosses are authoritarian, whimsical and high interference in everyday decisions of guerrillas and hostages. Conclusions. The guerrilla fighter would return to legality she is young, with low or average academic level, but high level of indoctrination; very resourceful in everyday life; used to obey and logic to support their decisions on arms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper comes from the monograph called "Intimacies exposed: a social question for public space." It raises the question about the importance of accommodating human aspects when analyzing and planning public spaces, to approach the analysis from social, psychological, aesthetic and architectural aspects. The text covers a form of food for thought for the new architectures through the identification of city aesthetics to allow clear observation of daily affective processes as means of social construction in Medellín. The paper begins with the need to inquire about an architecture that transcends beyond the material idea and help identify more clearly the task of the architect (contemporary), who must not only design tangible spaces but sensations, routes, movement and expression strategies in cities, from public spaces understood as living scenarios of relative spaces and collective memories in constant movement and construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work written by the Colombian poet Matilde Espinosa de Pérez deserves to be known and recognized by the literary review, so according to this, the article below is a study about two of her last works: The dark land and The town gets into dark. This paper analyses the poetic conception of the female author, the aesthetic connection of her work with her passing within every day life as a mother, woman and female writer and, the standing she considers among pain, life and death as elements that constitutes her poetic art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to propose and discuss certain theoretical supositions, concepts and notions which are constituent elements of a psycosocial framework necessary in the approach and study of urban everyday life and common sense, viewed from a discursive perspective that has been developing over the last ten years. Some of our main references are general propositions of social constructionism (Gergen, 1985; Shotter & Burton, 1983), discursive psychology (Billig, 1991-94; Parker, 1995-96), and hermeneutics (Riccoeur, 1998; Gadamer, 1979). In this manner we adopted discurse analisis as a basical methodological strategy to explore dis-cursive productions comming from: people ("live discurse"), local political institutions ("official discurse") and local mass media ("public discurse"). Some theoretical supositions are asumed here: a) the city is a semantical being which produces its own discurse and induces citizens to generate it too; b) discurse is a psychosocial and cultural founda- tional praxis: which is founded by discurse and the reality it talks about; c) the city's realities are not an a priori data which exists independently of individual thinkers, but a complex historical process-product constantly rebuilt by people; d) common sense is a transdiscursive dimension heavely charged by the semantic sedimentation of words and popular expressions comming from history and traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]