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This paper analyzes three short stories from La Música Interior de los Leones (2019), by Martín Cristal. It focuses on the conspiratorial nature of current narrative fictions from the perspective of dialectical hermeneutics. In the imaginary worlds of "Vivir A La Sombra", "Farmagedón", and "Ofrenda", the detective genre expands to question social phobias, rewrites the coordinates of terror, and extends uncertainty to scientific paradigms through the allusion to science fiction. Thus, the conspiracy is drawn from the discursive organization as a network of networks, a privileged, invisible, and conflictive totalizing form that allows the nuclei of domination to be read. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the relationship between tourism, geography, and images, seeking to recognize how images mediate place tourist experience. To do this, the paper analyzes the official tourism promotion of Salta (Argentina) considering the main ideas about the destination created by local government. This is done by examining graphic material (booklets, books, magazines, brochures, posters, maps, etc.) edited and distributed by provincial government since 2007 to 2019. The analysis of graphic devices produced by provincial government shows that there are two main ideas about Salta as a tourist place. One of them portraits Salta as an unvisited place that is ideal for initial exploration. The other idea depicts it as a place where tourists can get access to an unaltered and rich cultural heritage. The text concludes by pointing out that official promotion strategy renews tourists' interest for the exotic, the different, and the remote, while allowing the multiplication of business options in a context where diversity is necessary to increase consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the different notions of border developed in the book La geografía y la historia en la identidad nacional (1981), written by geographers and historians during the last dictatorship in Argentina and published by the Association for the Promotion of Territorial and Environmental Studies (OIKOS). The book was compiled by the Catholic nationalist architect Patricio Horacio Randle. On the basis of the analysis carried out, the article shows how the notions of border presented there were strongly influenced by the political context of the dictatorship and by the border issues prevailing at that particular moment. In line with the findings of other researchers, the paper concludes that these types of books sought to contribute to the process of legitimating the dictatorial regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]