Pub Date : 2021-11-17DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1966400
D. Khromov
Since the 1950s, films set in the Brazilian Northeast have variously represented the region as the site of romanticised national origin, spectacularised poverty and violence, and popular anticolonial revolt, in each case defined by its opposition to metropolitan, urban centers. Gabriel Mascaro’s 2015 film Boi Neon breaks with these narratives, portraying a community of itinerant vaqueiros (“cowboys”) in the contemporary Northeast whose barren landscape is shot through with neon to mark its absorption into the globalised market as the textile industry and agribusiness encroach on the arid, traditionally cattle-raising region. Combining a Deleuzian approach to the body and desire with haptic and aural film theory, this article argues that, through careful attention to the affective ways in which humans interact with others and with a particular focus on the erotic, Boi Neon dispels conventional narratives of the region, drawing attention instead to the desires and tensions of bodies in their everyday activities. As time-space compression and reduction of humans, animals, and land to their exchange value make the dualisms that oppose nature to culture, rural to urban, premodern to modern, and mythical to historical increasingly difficult to sustain, I argue, Mascaro uses the contemporary Northeast as a setting to explore lines of flight from late capitalist agro-industry’s extractivist and heteropatriarchal order.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-14DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1987203
Ricardo Duarte Filho
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Pub Date : 2021-11-07DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1964943
Mathilda Shepard
This article examines the poetics of resistance in Katharsis: la revista literaria del Putumayo. Established during the occupation of southwestern Colombia by right-wing paramilitary forces (1997–2006), Katharsis describes itself as both the “literary door to Putumayo” and a “strategy of resisting war.” While cultural studies have offered valuable insights into the acts of witnessing, mediating, and critiquing violence in Colombia, the question of resistance – a concept situated between thought and action, representation and concrete practice – remains understudied. I propose that Katharsis engages in “subterranean resistance”, or a strategy of working beneath the surface of what is visibly political to promote other ways of thinking, feeling, and living in militarised spaces. By critically engaging the relational space of territory, Katharsis constructs modes of representing and inhabiting Putumayo that diverge from the territoriality of paramilitarism. The magazine anchors subterranean resistance in a “life politics” (Lyons 2016 ) that situates human life within the more-than-human ecologies of the selva. In doing so, it links Putumayo to other geographies negatively impacted by extractivism, chemical warfare, and parastate violence across the Global South.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1968809
Pavel Andrade
In this essay I study the supermarket in Diamela Eltit’s Mano de obra as a site of class struggle. Despite readings that see in the novel a representation of post-work society, several scholars have noted that Mano de obra can be productively read as a novel that explores the centrality of labour in present-day capitalism. In this article I suggest that Eltit’s novel offers, at the level of form, a powerful reflection on labour exploitation as mediated by the sale and purchase of labour-power. I emphasise two processes that the novel registers in relation to the neoliberal working-day: the changes in the inward notation of time brought about by the expansion of the service industry, and the compenetration between the disciplinary practices of the workplace and the affective structures of the household. I conclude the essay by showing how the punctuation of the novel, in particular the overabundance in the use of parentheses, gives formal expression to the fundamental reality hidden behind the sale and purchase of labour-power: the dispossession of the worker from her own living body.
在这篇文章中，我将Diamela Eltit的Mano de obra超市作为阶级斗争的场所进行了研究。尽管在阅读中看到小说代表了后工作社会，但几位学者指出，《马诺·德·奥布拉》可以作为一部探索当今资本主义中劳动力中心地位的小说进行富有成效的解读。在这篇文章中，我认为埃尔蒂特的小说在形式层面上有力地反映了通过买卖劳动力来调解的劳动力剥削。我强调了这部小说记录的与新自由主义工作日有关的两个过程：服务业扩张带来的时间向内记法的变化，以及工作场所的纪律实践和家庭情感结构之间的融合。最后，我展示了小说的标点符号，特别是括号的过度使用，如何正式表达了隐藏在买卖劳动力背后的基本现实：工人被剥夺了自己的生命。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-28DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1978957
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
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Pub Date : 2021-10-19DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1971957
Aleida García Aguirre
This article analyses the judicial statements of members of political-military organizations that were obtained by agents of the national security and intelligence institution Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Department; DFS) during the seventies. The analysis proposes that the conditions in which these documents were produced, as well as their dialogic and uneven nature, brought about narratives of the lives of the detainees that may be used as an index to understand certain aspects of these militants’ process of subjectivation. For example, the heterogeneity of their social origins and the diverse spaces about which they spoke, as a way to account for their political trajectory prior to their participation in armed militancy, and how they conceptualised both the organisation and their militancy. At the same time, it is also possible to find certain traces about the DFS agents who interrogated them: their bias against the militants, the aspects and features of the lives of the detainees that were inaudible to them. The corpus of DFS statements, as a discourse, provides a useful resource for problematising our conception of who the militants and agents of repression were, and for broadening the history of Mexico’s recent past.
本文分析了国家安全和情报机构Dirección Federal de Seguridad（联邦安全部；DFS）的特工在70年代获得的政治军事组织成员的司法陈述。分析表明，这些文件的制作条件，以及它们的对话性和不均衡性，导致了对被拘留者生活的叙述，可以作为理解这些武装分子主观化过程某些方面的指标。例如，他们社会出身的异质性和他们所谈论的不同空间，以此来解释他们在参与武装战斗之前的政治轨迹，以及他们如何将组织和战斗概念化。与此同时，还可以找到审问他们的外勤部特工的某些痕迹：他们对武装分子的偏见，被拘留者生活中听不见的方面和特征。DFS的声明集作为一种话语，为我们对武装分子和镇压人员的概念提出质疑，并拓宽墨西哥近代历史提供了有用的资源。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2022.2031919
Lucas Mertehikian
This paper discusses “A cidade do homem nu”, Flávio de Carvalho’s (1930) proposal for an imaginary city arranged in concentric circles. In this city, Carvalho claimed, man would live free of Christian values such as marriage and property. A prolific architect, writer, and artist active for over two decades, Carvalho’s work has been studied in relation to Brazilian modernismo. In this sense, “A cidade do homem nu” can be understood as an avant-garde manifesto challenging traditional institutions and taboos. However, this paper reads “A cidade do homem nu” as a utopia that should be considered in dialogue with Brazilian racial dynamics. Specifically, I argue that Carvalho posits a utopian city that can be thought of along the lines of Gilberto Freyre’s controversial praise of miscegenation. First, I offer close readings of the text’s scarce but decisive racially marked references in relation to the topic of nudity. Second, I examine Carvalho’s circular diagram and its likely architectural sources, as well as actual urban reforms that were carried out in Brazil at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nudity and circles evoke and fuse different historical and cultural layers in Brazilian society that destabilise notions of linear time and the idea of miscegenation itself.
本文讨论了德·卡瓦略(1930)提出的“A cidade do homem nu”(Flávio)设想的同心圆城市。卡瓦略声称，在这个城市里，人们将摆脱婚姻和财产等基督教价值观的束缚。Carvalho是一位多产的建筑师、作家和艺术家，活跃了二十多年，他的作品被研究与巴西现代主义有关。从这个意义上说，《我要回家》可以理解为一份挑战传统制度和禁忌的前卫宣言。然而，这篇文章将“A cidade do homem nu”视为一个乌托邦，应该在与巴西种族动态的对话中加以考虑。具体来说，我认为卡瓦略假设了一个乌托邦城市，可以沿着吉尔伯特·弗雷(Gilberto Freyre)对异族通婚的有争议的赞扬的思路来思考。首先，我提供了文本中与裸体主题相关的少数但决定性的种族标记参考的仔细阅读。其次，我研究了Carvalho的圆形图及其可能的建筑来源，以及20世纪初在巴西进行的实际城市改革。裸体和圆形唤起并融合了巴西社会中不同的历史和文化层面，这破坏了线性时间的概念和通婚本身的概念。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.2005003
J. Zanelli
In this article, I examine the reception of the so-called discovery of Machu Picchu and its subsequent reinterpretation by Cuzco’s intelligentsia. After its unearthing, the citadel of Machu Picchu was part of an intellectual discussion that took place in Cuzco and impacted a regional agenda that was constructed by indigenismo cusqueño. Here, I evaluate the historiographic writings about Machu Picchu in three different ways. First, as an act of “epistemological extractivism” perpetrated by the Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham, who self-portrays as the heroic discoverer of the Inca citadel, eliminating previous local visitors from his texts. Second, I illuminate historical reassessments made by two major local intellectuals, Luis Enrique Valcárcel and José Uriel García, whose texts placed Machu Picchu under the large umbrella of Inca civilisation born in Cuzco. Third, I argue that the aesthetical interpretations of Machu Picchu exposed the differences within indigenismo cusqueño; after all, despite its regionalist discourse this movement was not composed by a homogeneous chorus of intellectuals.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1941817
Bonnie A. Lucero
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuban authorities produced an unprecedented volume of documentation concerning the conspicuous appearance of fetal remains, infant cadavers, and abandoned infants in public places across the island. Although the physical presence of these bodies and tissue was not new to the mid-nineteenth century, the evolution of the law and a rapidly shifting urban landscape made the material evidence of women’s responses to unwanted pregnancy more legible and more meaningful to Cuba’s colonial state. Yet, for police and judges, the domains of pregnancy and childbirth remained far beyond their training and expertise. They relied on an emerging professional class of physicians to produce and interpret evidence confirming criminality. However, the ongoing professionalisation of Cuban medicine, and in particular the emergence of a medical elite of foreign-educated obstetricians, created frictions within the medical community, and between physicians and judges. Each group of men articulated different – often competing – interpretations of the evidence, which served their broader professional goals and vision of Cuba’s future. Emerging out of these confrontations over the meaning of the material remains of reproductive crises were key contradictions in the prevailing understandings of the law, ones that hinged on race, class, and gender in perceptions of criminality.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1919068
Elzbieta Sklodowska
The disintegration of the Cuban sugar industry after the Soviet Union’s demise, as depicted in the film Melaza (dir. Carlos Lechuga, 2012 ), serves as a point of departure for a more general analysis of the materiality of Cuba’s post-sugar afterlife. Against the backdrop of sugar mills shuttered as a result of the 2002 “restructuring”, I analyse the film’s aesthetic rendering of the multilayered archaeology of loss: from the dissolution of the utopian dreams to the daily precarity of common livelihoods.
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