Roger Bartra Muria

(Mexico City, Mexico, 1942)

Anthropologist, sociologist, writer and essayist, he received his doctorate in Sociology from the Sorbonne University (Paris III). He is an emeritus researcher at UNAM (Social Research Institute). He has been an emeritus researcher of the National System of Researchers since 2014. He has produced a multifaceted work of great originality, delving into the idiosyncrasy of his country and the idea of melancholy. He then jumped into the study of consciousness and decided to "invade" the field of neuroscience. His works include: Bourgeois despotic power: The peasant roots of the political structures of mediation (1977), Peasantry and political power in Mexico (1982), The savage in the mirror (1992), The imaginary networks of political power, new corrected, revised and expanded edition (1996), The Golden Age of Melancholy. Spanish and New Spanish texts on diseases of the soul (1998), Culture and melancholy. Diseases of the soul in Spain during the Golden Age (2001), Anthropology of the brain. Consciousness and symbolic systems (2006), The Mexican fracture: left and right in the Mexican transition (2009), Axolotiada. Life and myth of a Mexican amphibian (2011), The myth of the savage (2011) and The shadow of the future. Reflections on the Mexican transition (2012). Bartra has received multiple recognitions, including being named Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College of the University of London, the National University Award for Research in Social Sciences, 1996, and the Fernando Benítez National Tribute to Cultural Journalism, 2009.

He has participated in Medialab Madrid, within the framework of Banquete_03 metabolism and communication with the conference Consciousness and the exocerebrum. A hypothesis about symbolic substitution systems.