Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting local and international artists and critics played an important role in this process. In addition to the exhibitions, a program of different activities provided viewers with a greater chance of seeing the latest innovations in art and scientific thought. According to Glusberg, the coordination between theoretical thinking and artistic practice was a key factor in the achievement of social change.
During the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, the CAYC became a cultural home for the Fundación de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research), a space that welcomed a group of dissident professors from the Facultad de Arquitectura y Ciencias Exactas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires after the military takeover of the institution in what came to be known as “The Night of the Long Sticks” in June 1966. In its early years, the center organized multiple activities with intellectuals that led to the circulation of different disciplines (analytical philosophy, mathematical logic, epistemological problems, psychology, semiotics, and linguistics) that had been excluded in official circles.
The Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (Argentine Philosophical Analysis Society) was one of the civil associations that welcomed university professors who had resigned their positions after the military takeover of the universities at the beginning of a long de facto dictatorship (1966–83). Following the model of the American Philosophical Society, the SADAF’s goals were to organize discussion groups and meetings and to promote the practice of philosophical analysis, among others. Its original members included Eugenio Bulygin, Genaro Carrió, Alberto Coffa, Juan Carlos D’Alessio, Rolando García, Ricardo Gómez, Gregorio Klimovsky (GT 120 [la discusión acerca de los conceptos de estructura y modelos/the discussion about the concepts of structure and models]; doc. no. 1478802), Raúl Orayen, Eduardo Rabossi, Félix Schuster, and Thomas Moro Simpson. (Estatuto de la Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, http://www.sadaf.org.ar/es/acerca-de-sadaf/estatuto.html).
