The Holy Mountain
While Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon, its success spawned The Holy Mountain. The film production was aided by the intervention of John Lennon and Allen Klein. However, after a scandalous release and a sixteen-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty […]
Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas
Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos — This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a […]
Fricciones
Gabriel Saldías Rossel — Fricciones is a collection of short stories published by Editorial Nadar in Chile, 2017. All the short stories present in the volume revolve, as its title suggests, around the idea of uncomfortable contact. Written with a caustic prose filled with black humor, irony and detachment, the nightmarish scenarios presented in these short stories […]
Buñuel en Toledo. Arte público, acción cultural y vanguardia
María Soledad Fernández Utrera — In 1923, Luis Buñuel established the Order of Toledo, a parody order of knights whose members included Salvador Dalí, García Lorca, and Rafael Alberti. Together, they often visited the ancient Spanish capital to stroll through its labyrinthine streets. But these excursions on the part of Buñuel and the Brotherhood were […]
Celestina según su lenguaje
Raúl Alvarez-Moreno — Celestina según su lenguaje estudia el lenguaje en Celestina (1499-1502) como elemento primordial y no solo supletorio o subsiguiente de la contienda que tiene lugar en la obra. A causa del recorrido desde lo semántico a lo epistemológico y lo filósofico-moral -ética y política-, ya en el aristotelismo, el estoicismo o el […]
Una embajada española al Egipto de principios del siglo XVI
Raúl Álvarez-Moreno — Pedro Mártir de Anglería desembarcó en Egipto la Navidad de 1501 tras ochenta días de viaje, trece de ellos en Venecia, para negociar la restauración de los lugares santos y la protección de los cristianos en Jerusalén, quienes temían una represalia mameluca por las recientes acciones llevadas a cabo contra los moriscos […]
Visión periférica: marginalidad y colonialidad en las crónicas de América Latina (siglos XVI-XVII y XX-XXI)
Kim Beauchesne — The product of extensive research in specialized archives, Visión periférica challenges linguistic, geographical and temporal boundaries to propose a study of colonial and contemporary chronicles about the marginal regions of Latin America. Initially, Kim Beauchesne’s groundbreaking book focuses on the representation of the colonial periphery —i.e. areas that were neglected by the […]
The Utopian Impulse in Latin America
Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos — This edited volume explores the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest texts about the New World through current cultural production. The book’s originality lies in its diversity of approaches and its ability to challenge the static concept of utopia as well as other commonplaces about the […]
Posthegemony
Jon Beasley-Murray — Posthegemony is an investigation into the origins, limits, and possibilities for contemporary politics and political analysis. Jon Beasley-Murray grounds his theoretical discussion with accounts of historical movements in Latin America, from Columbus to Chávez, and from Argentine Peronism to Peru’s Sendero Luminoso. Challenging dominant strains in social theory, Beasley-Murray contends that cultural […]
Reciclaje cultural y memoria revolucionaria
Rita De Grandis — Este estudio notable no solamente presenta una narracion completa y precisa de la trayectoria de una de las mas importantes figuras intelectuales de la Argentina contemporanea sino que tambien describe de modo exhaustivo los cambios culturales que la Argentina ha experimentado en los ultimos treinta anos. Su minucioso detalle, a la […]