Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco

Graduate Student, Comunicación y Política

Thesis Title: Aspectos simbólicos del alcoholismo: habitus desfasado y estructura ritual en las reuniones de Alcohólicos Anónimos

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Adrián Romero Farías has a MA degree in Social Science, Politics and Communication from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco (UAM-X) in México City.

Autodidact philosopher interested in the work of Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Gregory Bateson, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, his current academic research is about the schizoanalytic aspects of virtual communities, i.e. taking AA self-help group symbolic interaction and addictive patterns as an anthropological model. His framework includes a conceptual outline related to 'online' communities that implies a theoretical posture through which the opposition between real life and virtual life, e.g. the outside/inside symbolic divide of the group, is meant to be dissolved.

Blogger known as 'Naxos' since June 2005, Second Life resident since October 2006, Twitterer since April 2007, Facebook member since August 2007.

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