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This essay concerns paranoia's apocalyptic implications when harnessed by the state. It argues that current characterizations of paranoia as either resistance to globalization or a lay critique of Enlightenment ideals do not obviate paranoia's destructive dynamics in the service of state power. Paranoia remains a political phenomenon that calls for analysis at the level of the structure of rule. The essay explores one approach to paranoia as a political category through an ideal-typical model drawn from Elias Canetti's classic 1960 text Crowds and Power. It concludes with a discussion on how technology mediates between power and secrecy, forming a key nexus in the exploration of politics and paranoia.

Leemos en el Plan de operaciones de Mariano Moreno una identidad política (posicional) en la figura del "pueblo movilizado" en vínculo positivo con sus representantes, la cual circula como pre-construido en las novelas contemporáneas French y Beruti. Los patoteros de la patria de Juan Carlos Martelli y La campaña de Carlos Fuentes. Dichos relatos establecen nuevas modulaciones sobre ese legado y aportan un sentido diferencial al campo polemológico de las narrativas sobre el acontecimiento Revolución de Mayo. Damos espesor histórico a los efectos de sentidos en y por la descripción de las escenografías de la revolución en un plano discursivo, a partir de textos de historiadores según una perspectiva interdisciplinaria del Análisis del Discurso.Las tensiones entre una identidad política pueblo movilizado, razón iluminista y democratización discursivizadas en las ficciones configuran el pasado de la revolución y actúan como un campo de experiencias que obra sobre la incertidumbre del futuro. ; We read in the Plan de operaciones of Mariano Moreno a political identity (position) in the figure of "the people mobilized" in a positive relationship with their representatives, which circulates as a pre-built in the contemporary novels French y Berutti, Los patoteros de la patria of Juan Carlos Martelli and La campaña of Carlos Fuentes. These stories provide a new module on that legacy and offered a differential sense on the controversial field of narratives about the event May Revolution. The effects of meaning in the description of the scenery of the revolution, in a discursive level, are considered from a historical density, based on texts of historians according to an interdisciplinary perspective of discourse Analysis. Tensions between political identity "mobilized people", enlightened reason and democratization, put into the discourse, configure the past of the revolution in the fictions and operate as a field of experiences that work on the uncertainty of the future.

Intercessions by Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) on behalf of Jewish communities, and his reformulation of Jewish political culture