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Culture is a broad concept that crosses different social sciences, especially after the cultural turn of the mid-twentieth century, before that was mainly the subject of anthropology. This paper focuses on various current theoretical principals that deal with culture and sets special emphasis on the debate on information/communication. The idea is to escape from different binary oppositions and look for complex and dialectical concepts that help us establish truly interdisciplinary debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is divided into three sections, the first sketches a panorama of the conditions of construction of knowledge, not "about" but from the perspective of culture. The second is a self-critical presentation of the author's work on what he terms '"Cultural Fronts. " Lastly, some of the characteristics and effects of the cultural fronts project are presented, which is currently being developed in Mexico and, through recently initiated collaborations, in other parts of Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper the author considers the matter of what he terms "cultural decentring" and the complexity of contemporary identity that this produces. He opens with a provocative question, asking "From where should we think about identity?," for one's centrality or peripherality, he suggests, has an impact on the issues raised and on our perceptions of whether we have merely to live with diversity or think more fundamentally in terms of cultural survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]