De la presencia impuesta a la presente ausencia: traducción de la teoría cultural rusa en Cuba por Desiderio Navarro 1960-2009
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Abstract
Desiderio Navarro logra de manera autodidacta convertirse en traductor, luego de ser expulsado de la universidad por sus vínculos católicos en la Cuba revolucionaria de los años 1960. En esa misma década se muda de su Camagüey natal a La Habana y comienza a trabajar en las revistas culturales de la época. Desde los años 1970 está ya directa y profundamente vinculado al debate cultural cubano. Crea la revista Criterios en 1972, como respuesta a la censura y cierre de la revista Pensamiento Crítico y desde entonces ha traducido miles de artículos y decenas de libros de autores tan diversos como Mijaíl Bajtín o Pierre Bourdieu. En 2007, Navarro coordina la « guerrita de los emails », protesta de los intelectuales críticos cubanos de diversas generaciones a una nueva “vuelta de tuerca” de la ortodoxia castrista contra ellos. Su trabajo de traducción y difusión de pensamientos y teorías novedosas continúa hoy por hoy. En este artículo, el autor pretende primero responder a las cuestiones relativas a la selección de textos y autores por parte del traductor, para la antología del pensamiento ruso que logra publicar en Cuba en 2009. Se pretende también explicar los contextos y las contradicciones inherentes a los procesos sociales, ideológicos y políticos en la ex-URSS y en la Cuba de los últimos 56 años. Este estudio parte de la hipótesis que Navarro ha sido y es un intelectual crítico, en el sentido que ese concepto fue interpretado en Cuba desde los años 1960, es decir, que junto con el reclamo de un lugar activo y cuestionador del poder para este sector social, se integra y defiende una fidelidad sin límites tanto a los postulados de un marxismo no ortodoxo, como a los del paradigma nacionalista que ha caracterizado al pensamiento de la Cuba contemporánea. Abstract: From an Imposed Presence to a Present Absence: Desiderio Navarro’s Translation of Russian Cultural Theory 1960-2009 In the 1960’s revolutionary Cuba, Desiderio Navarro, after being expulsed from university because of his catholic background, becomes an autodidact translator. During those years he also moved to Havana, and started working for the ‘revolutionary’ cultural journals. During the 1970’s he is directly and profoundly involved in the Cuban cultural debate. He fathered the journal Criterios in 1972, a symbolic answer to the censorship and closure of Pensamiento Crítico. Since then, he translated thousands of articles and dozens of books from authors as diverse as Mikhail Bakhtin and Pierre Bourdieu. In 2007 Navarro was the coordinator of the “guerrita de los emails” (the little war of emails), which was the Cuban critic intellectuals protest against the Castro’s orthodoxy new wave of repression. Navarro’s work of translation and diffusion of new theories and thinking still continues today. This essay attempts first, to answer questions related to the choice of texts and authors, selected by the translator and editor for his anthology of Russian theory published in 2009, in Cuba. Then, to explicit the context and contradictions that were implicit to the social, ideological and political processes in the ex-USSR, and in Cuba. This study’s key hypothesis is that Navarro was, and still is, a critical intellectual, in the same sense this concept was interpreted in 1960’s Cuba. This means that together with the claim of an active and critical role vis-à-vis the Power, there is also a unconditional fidelity to the ideas of non-orthodox Marxism and to the nationalistic paradigm, both key elements of Cuba’s contemporary social thinking.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".