Historia

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During 1995 in caracas, venezuela, two researches meets each other, abdel hernandez san juan, a hard science thinker, theoretician and writer author of books mainly focussed in developing philosophical thought between philosophy and sociology, phenomenological sociology, theoretical linguistic, semiotic theory of culture and art and lecturing theoretical seminars of sociology, aesthetic theory, museum theory and cultural theory in caracas, and surpik angelini, a venezuelan curator, writer and art critic stablished in houston, texas

At that time abdel hernandez san juan was the main curator of the alejandro otero museum of visual art in caracas of venezuelan art developing a curatorial research project adressed to museographize theory in the visual displays of the museum as an interdisciplinary modality of sociology, art theory and anthropology mise in scene on the urban popular markets of venezuela and its visual culture since the colonial centuries. 

Inspired in a museography of theory developed by jean francois lyotard at pompidue "The inmaterials", Abdel Hernandez San Juan proposed a posmodern cultural theory mise in scene of the market based in his fieldwork of such markets

Both researches realized to be agree on this and based in a theoretical seminar discussed by Abdel developing new interdisciplinary axiologies of museum theory, semiotic of art and posmodern anthropology at the petare museum of popular art of caracas, they both readapted abdel project at the alejandro otero museum of visual art to start a presentation of it in the united states

Abdel hernandez san juan then traveled invited by the department of classical and hispanic studies at rice university, lectured a conference "The posmodern Work" at the fondren library at rice university during 1996 and a year later they both Abdel and Surpik presented toguether at the rice university campus a letlee curatorial practices of seven exhibit exploring and focussing the relation between art and anthropology

Since 1997 Abdel stay living in houston, texas and emigrated during 1998, they both founded the transart foundation of houston for research of art and anthropology and abdel started to be by many year complimentary research asociate scholard at the school of social science, anthropology department at rice university from which through theoretical and philosophical dialogues with Stephen A Tyler Abdel started a new tendency and boom in classical philosophical research, semiotic theory, phenomenological sociology, sociology of culture, simbolic interactionism, ethnometodology and cultural theory as expressed and developed under his single author books The World Correlate: interpretant and structure in posmodern cultural theory, thinking science: new phenomenological avenues between philosophy and sociology, The core of experience: self perception and common sense in phenomenological sociology and The Crysalide of being between many others

All this evolutioned to be explorations in cultural anthropology too spetially intercultural and transcultural by Abdel through his own school (the Abdel free school of advanced hard science studies and center of phenomenological research) and with the active participation of surpik angelini a new revival, turn and tendency was started since 1998 while with precedents in Abdel and Surpik experimental workshop for art and anthropology, caracas, 1996 and their curatorial practices of 1997 at rice university.

This tendency defined mainly by Abdel semiotic theory, sociology of culture and art, semiotic of culture, cultural anthropology and interdisciplinary research single author books of hard science and stephen A Tyler started and impulse a whole boom of new directions in a variety of empirical ways in cultural anthropology, anthropology of art and new ethnography (performative, transcultural, intercultural, creative, experimental). 

The main exponents and figures of this tendency are Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Stephen A Tyler and Surpik Angelini

The participation of Thomas Mc Evilley in the spring event of 1997 must be defined as major 

Major references of history to understand both the peculiarity as well as the internal diversity of this tendency turn and boom are 

1-Abdel Hernandez San Juan books as single author such as the previous mentioned aditionally to Rethinking intertextuality: research method in the sociology of culture, The semantique elucidation: semiotic theory, sociolinguistic and the semantique of culture, The indeterminist true: the urban popular markets in capitalism or the couple of epistemology: practicing sociology composing anthropology between others, Abdel projects of social science and sociological art tradition and abdel theoretical thought migh be defined as main through the tendency including his projects of social science and sociological art developed in cuba since the mid eighties something about which Abdel lectured earlier january at the department of anthropology at rice before starting the spring event activities 

2- Another genealogy for this tendency must be regarded to surpik angelini curatorial practice another reality of art from texas and her interdisciplinary projects of social work in matamoros and urban architectural projects 

3- Sephen A Tyler anthropology is important in the tendency too, aditionally to stephen direct and active lidership participation in this through sustained philosophical dialogues with Abdel from 1997 to 2015

Stephen later philosophical anthropology essays, including his previous linguistic, cognitive anthropology, to his major essay posmodern ethnography published at the unspeakable, discourse, rethoric and dialogue in the posmodern world and at writing culture edited by James Clifford and George Marcus

4- Pivotal references to be considered on the history of this tendency must be regarded to the importance assigned to the idea and practice of dialogue in between its individuality, philosophical dialogue by Abdel Hernandez San Juan and Stephen A Tyler on evocation are foundationals of the tendency (through papers) as well as Abdel and Alberto Mendez Suarez Counterpoints: philosophicl dialogues and rumbos: emplorations in cultural anthropology are majors in the developments of the tendency aditionally to of course each exponent individuality books as single authors as well as essays and papers

Abdel and Stephen posevocation philosophical dialogues at rice anthropology 

Abdel Hernandez San Juan and surpik angelini philosophical dialogues since 1995 continuated in houston, Abdel Hernandez San Juan and Maria Cristina Jadick workshop of semiotic theory, installation and process anthropology, and Abdel one year seminar in self sociology and self anthropology developed with diana gland must be mentioned.

The tendency must be defined as diverse and heterogenous as their individuality exponents are each one originals and since each individuality have continuated indeed entailing their own individual original ways with the impetus of the foundational years under their own interest and own directions

Alberto Mendez Suarez, analytical philosopher from the international university of florida, who was earlier influenced by Abdel urban sociology and cultural theory fieldworks in cuba must be considered currently as pivotal as well as a tangencial new aditional direction (diferent to the original turn) but also influenced by it developed in collaborations by George Marcus and fernando calzadilla and their followers might be mentioned