On the author

    Abdel Hernandez San Juan, 1968

   American thinker, theoretician and writer of cuban origin, theoretical linguist and sociologist, he emigrated to United states during 1998 while living since 1997 after a 1996 travel as guest in his área of semiotic theory, anthropology and theory of contemporary art of the faculty of classical and hispanic studies at rice university. 

  From Caracas he meet the social phenomenology, philosophy and phenomenological research of Alfred Shutz, the work of Jacques Derrida and of Junger Habermas which toguether with poshegelianism and his strong linguistic and semiotic theory basis such as Charles Sanders peirce, influenced him.

  During 1993 he finished his first book embracing phenomenology in sociology and ethnometodology something he later continuated in Houston

  Since 2003 in Houston to currently 2021 he started a continuated life of writing as author thinking philosophy, lingüístic, sociology and anthropology opening a New school of thought "neoromanticism" complexioning his 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 sociólogy, The Chrysalides of Being: Essays in phenomenological anthropology. 

   Self and Acervo: The Self and the Social between writing, research and culture, The Intramundane Horizont: phenomenology and hermeneutic of quotidian life, Rethinking Urban Anthropology, anthropology of archaeology: a perspective from anthropology and cultural anthropology, Rethinking intertextuality: Research method in the sociology of culture,  The Presentational Linguistic: Intangibility, Intersticiality and stratus in mass medias society, Being and Monad: Being, Liminality and technology in secular society, The given and the ungiven: inner, aesthetic and ritual in technology environments, The Semantique Elucidation: Semiotic theory, Sociolinguistic and semantique of culture, 

  His work --books-is being recognized as highly innovative, original and uniques, during 1995 surpik angelini, Houston writer, art critic and curator discípule of Thomas Mc evilley expressed about his thought "you and deleuze", and expressed   

 

 "I want to congratulate you for your boundaries and overflows book, i consider you one of those genious aviatión drivers capable to take off to the marvellous country from which the world  of paradoxs and rational sistems is clear and distinguished from the heights but from which you have opened a window to another liminality space and time aparently ephemeral but full of deep trues brings into being. From there you have attained to discover the traps and enlighment the wells in the road of contemporary structuralismn and posestructuralism, the two colums of modern thought with all the variants of isms, movements and stylistic itsms contained in between

    Now with you I feel that thought is not hate, but delightful, kind, light, smart, inteligent, playfull, deep profound with the deeperness of the skin (deleuze) which is precesilly the only thought posible to me, but your language light can be as fluid that it escape between the fingers so that as mush as i am following your construction as much as i become awarness that my memory was not constructing conceptions reading but my imaginación was enjoying with a juissance (kristeva) so powerfull to finally feel the movements of words, the  game of gravite, but to seise and remember i must read again back to the text to find that verbal 

   The deep effect of your use of language on me is that of liberation, as you say 'a multiplicity of worlds in ecológical relations, a new form of the contemporary to discourse'

  That discipline that you have conquered, and i am saying this conciente of the fact that many people have recognized you, but with the certitude of a reiteración assent in the profound and the sense of things in the transcurse which is the important"

  During 2013 in Houston, Texas Linguist and anthropologist stephen a tyler expressed about his recent years books "as usual you continue your innovative and creative works.  You have been and continue to be a real thinker.  (...) I've just finished going through all the material you recently sent (-Abdel hsj books and essays as single author-), I'm really impressed not only with the amount of work you have been doing, but more importantly, with the quality of it.  You seem to be getting deeper and deeper into interesting areas that have not been well explored by contemporary research.  

   Great to hear from you and to see that you are continuing to create wonderful and significant stuff.  I especially liked your "Presentational Linguistic," "The Subject in Creativity," 

   Abdel was living in caracas Venezuela six years 1991-1997 before emigrating to Texas were he developed a higly intensive work as theoretician and critic in venezuelan culture and art lecturing at many universities and museums as well as publishing his writings. 

   In Texas he restablished his private free school of advanced hard science studies and his center of phenomenological research teaching philosophy, language sciences and sociology and stablished the program of his lab adressed to the writings of his next books.

   Since june 1997 in Houston he meet the school of social science at rice university as a complimentary research asociate to the faculty of anthropology and lectured as panelist at the congress of ethnometodology, The University of Houston anthropology faculty and as guest theoretician of the faculty of sociology and anthropology of the Lake forest college as well as at several panels discussing two years of fieldwork he did of the caracas urban popular markets such as AAA congress of anthropology, Chicago 1999 and Lasa congress florida 2000

   He founded The transart Foundation of Houston for art and anthropology toguether with surpik angelini and developed with her a major center of research in alabama 1996-2002 while he is living in field travels since 2003

  

Earlier in havana he stablished his own school of hard science Hacer focussed in linguistic theory, semiotic theory and sociology and developing fieldwork research on urban and rural groups founding his thesis of a new sociology to the research of culture through an experimental practice of scientific social science 

  

  In 2001 in Houston, Texas, anthropologist George marcus expressed "Abdel Hernández is a Cuban cultural theorist.  In Caracas, Hernandez continued his anthropologically relevant work. Why his work should be of interest to anthropology is that it makes explicit and experimentally explores tendencies deeply a part of the ethos of the discipline having to do with a combination of scholarly distance and a more active participation in a culture but still within the frame of professional fieldwork. 

   Finally, there was the brief surge into "theater anthropology" in the late 70s and early 80s, based on the interesting partnership of Richard Schechner and Victor Turner, and the writings of Eugenio Barba, among others. The main inspiration for this in anthropology was the later work of Victor Turner, who early on had a strong sense of the value of understanding ethnographic settings in dramatistical terms. However, what Hernandez are up to is quite different than this earlier effort at theater anthropology. Turner was really bringing anthropology into the framework of theater, and Hernández have made the opposite sort of move with more radical and interesting results for effacing the boundaries of both art and anthropology as institutions. Also, Turner was less interested in matters of epistemology and method than in universalist and transcendent questions about mind and emotion that could be explored by making theatrical the rituals that anthropologists studied in the field among peoples like the Ndembu and the Kwakiutl. There was never the more provocative bringing of the experiment and the performance to the field, as in Hernandez's work.     

   Here, I refer to the idea of ethnography as performance, which has been one of the “key words" of possible alternative for anthropological practice in recent years". 

  

  

School tendency

Phenomenological sociology and semiotic theory

Main áreas of research: epistemology, phenomenology, hermeneutic and Linguistic

Fieldwork research: Urban popular Markets, Urban studies in general, medias and technology, Urban social Groups as punks and rockers, bilinguism and multilinguism, modern cities, Markets and tourism between usa and México, transnational, intercultural and transcultural identity formations, diasporas, patrimonies and tourism, coffe montain farmers and religion

Influences

Alfred shuts

Jacques derrida

Stephen a tyler