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Este trabajo se propone señalar las prácticas de poesía ligadas a la performance y la teatralidad en la región del Río de la Plata durante los procesos de finalización de la dictadura y comienzos de la democracia, hacia finales del siglo XX. Menciona brevemente una historia del género y los problemas metodológicos que presenta la investigación. Desarrolla, además, la emergencia de formas de la teatralidad en las producciones artísticas y políticas de comienzos de 1980 en Argentina, período marcado por la transición democrática, para ubicar en este marco la producción del poeta y dramaturgo Emeterio Cerro.

During the twentieth century, two movements in Cuban art played a critical role in creating an expanded space for societal debate and cultural expression: the artistic avant-garde and the Afro-Cuban movement. Initially flourishing in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these collective efforts took on new forms in the changed environment after 1959. After the Revolution, conditions for cultural production changed with the official position that art should serve ideological functions, but both avant-garde and Afro-Cuban production continued, at the risk of conflict with the state. In the face of a restrictive state that sought to control such expressions, the Afro-Cuban movement and avant-garde art collectives developed along parallel, and sometimes intersecting, lines.

After centuries of symbolic and political oppression, Galicia has been recognized by the Spanish constitution as a historic nationality. However, despite a certain degree of political autonomy, Galician identity is threatened by increasing homogenization in the economic, social, cultural and linguistic fields. In the early 1990s the aesthetic movement Bravú constructed an aesthetic community, sustained by an ideological project, and with the aim to, on the one hand, prevent Galician culture from becoming folklore stuck in a time warp and, on the other hand, to validate Galician identity. The Bravú artists refused the historically inherited outsider position and contributed to a reinvention of Galician identity and of a political ideal within a cosmopolitan, internationalist framework and by reversing social stigmas through their works and performances.

Centred around Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony, this paper employs a critical globalisation theory framework to argue that the 1990s notion of ‘changing the world from below', understood as resistance to capitalist globalisation through a ‘transnational civil society', requires re-theorisation in the light of the contemporary developments in Our America. I make a methodological case for a neo-Gramscian approach to argue that ‘counter-hegemony', together with an adequate theorisation of the state and power, should be the preferred concept over the inherently apolitical and under-theorised ‘alter-globalisation'. Whilst the alter-globalisation movement's ideational and normative challenges to hegemony (captured in ex-British prime minister Thatcher's There-Is-No-Alternative-Doctrine, TINA) are undisputed, the transformation of the global geographies of power through local actors alone has remained illusory. Rather, the experience of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-PTA) strongly suggests that counter-hegemonic globalisation theory will have to consider the roles of both the ‘state-in-revolution' and the ‘transnational organised society'. This will be shown through the analysis and theorisation of the ALBA-PTA as a multi dimensional inter and transnational counter-hegemonic regionalisation and globalisation project that operates across a range of sectors and scales.

The concept of ‘resistance' has turned into a critical tool in different areas of political, philosophical and sociological thought. At the same time, the notion seems to be as productive as it is diffuse. ‘Resistance' is used in very specific contexts in scientific or technical disciplines, and with extreme flexibility in social and cultural studies. In the latter two areas, the concept is often used without prior reflection on its characteristics and limitations. In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze provides a possible framework for conceiving cultural and political practices of resistance as positions of force, when he defines contraction as ‘a contemplation that preserves the preceding in the following'. The purpose of this article is to understand political ecologism in its activist and poetical dimensions, in light of a Deleuzian interpretation of resistance.

Professionalization and political engagement are usually placed as incompatible in the case of journalism and the mainstream press, resulting in an identification of cultural resistance exclusively with alternative/amateur vehicles. I will use the concept of journalistic field as introduced by Pierre Bourdieu to review these assumptions and discuss a form of political resistance that acts in one's own area of knowledge, is not overtly political and whose effects are not immediately accountable for. Drawing examples from my research on two literary newspapers published in the 1950s in Brazil and Uruguay, this paper will focus on the implications of didacticism for literary criticism as a genre of newswriting. The analysis of these newspapers will lead to a reflection on two main issues: a) the conflict between the professionalization and democratization of literature; and b) the definition of resistance as necessarily an action that is against something. The article will reconsider education in journalism as a form of resistance, taking into account its risks of becoming political indoctrination and commercial manipulation, but emphasizing its potential as a way of expanding access to literature.

This article offers a pragmatic and relational analysis of the controversial heuristic of cultural resistance and presents some of the problems that affect the production and distribution of the poetic discourses of resistance and emancipation. To that end, it focuses on the incorporation of the historicity and the historic contingency of conflict as key elements of the subjectification constituted by the poem of resistance as “poem for the political”. It also explores the applicability of certain notions common to the contemporary critical tradition, as developed by scholars such as Badiou, Mouffe, Rancière, Bal and Žižek.

The poetic space, as I see it, is a space of resistance. Resistance against the media which do not need poetry. Communication among poets is a go-between, a web of messages, performances and presentations, the circulation of books and digital materials. These activities are political, functioning as politics in the Greek sense: discussion in a public arena, exchanges of opinion and criticism, interventions, concerted decisions, group projects, a net of relationships around the production of texts, articulating versions and diversions of language. These activities and exchanges give the participants a sense of fulfillment. In this sense to pass is to think, to question a certain regime, to marvel that it is still there, to wonder what makes it possible, going into its enclaves, looking for traces of the movements which formed it and discovering in those stories apparently in ashes, how to think, how to live otherwise.

In this article, I analyze the notions of sequentiality and simultaneity in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). I extrapolate this analysis to the contrasting epistemic sensibilities surrounding the concepts of ‘revolution' and ‘resistance' respectively. I am particularly concerned with the role these concepts play in contemporary academic production in the humanities. My aim is to understand the implications of the different conceptions of time and representation associated with each of those two concepts, and what their actual ideological operativity is in the context of the present status quo.

The following text provides a conceptual and theoretical introduction to a collection of essays written by members of the multidisciplinary network of scholars, artists and cultural producers named ‘Poetics of Resistance', which seeks to analyse and encourage discussion of the relationships between creativity, culture and political resistance, in the context of neoliberal globalization. The introduction also provides a critical glossary of a set of loosely interlinking keywords, following Raymond Williams, that mark points of encounter and departure between the approaches of the various authors (not to be confused with the list of keywords used to index each article). Rather than presenting a completed research project, this issue serves as a basis for continuing collaborative research and dialogue in the field, and invites readers to join in the ongoing debate. The contributors to this issue are Paulina Aroch Fugellie, Burghard Baltrusch, Arturo Casas, Marí­a do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, Roberto Echavarren, Marcos Giadas Conde, Cornelia Gräbner, Nathalia Jabur, Thomas Muhr and David Wood.

This essay is a brief study of translation as a practice of aesthetic resistance seen from a historical and philosophical perspective. Translation is perceived as the process of transition and negotiation within the ‘third space' between various different hybrid cultural contexts and their discursive constraints, and referred to as ‘paratranslation'. It summarises the first attempts to think of translation as an almost ‘holistic' paradigm and the aesthetics of intervention from Romantic philosophy onwards. It attempts to show how Walter Benjamin's master narrative, the utopia of ‘pure language', encourages continuous resistance to the totalitarianism of the idea of the ‘original', to aesthetics (within the sense of the perception of the real) and to dominant discourses. It subsequently defines the idea of ‘progress', which considers translation as aesthetic resistance, as a process of construction in constant deconstruction. It concludes by exemplifying the notion of translation as a paradigm of intervention in modernity with a brief analysis of the transcreation performed by Erin Mouré on Fernando Pessoa/Alberto Caeiro's poetic cycle, O Guardador de Rebanhos (The Keeper of Sheep).

This article contests the popular assumption that literature is ever less politically relevant. Quite the contrary is the case: literature and literary language becomes increasingly important for the alter-globalization movement and for the notion that ‘another world is possible.' The work of four authors - Manu Chao, Eduardo Galeano, Subcomandante Marcos, and José Saramago - are comparatively analysed in light of their contribution to an alternative globalism and to an alternative practice of politics. All four authors contribute from different perspectives to the literary articulation of a political project. Their work shares characteristics such as the permeability of genres, the emphasis on the poetical over the narrative, a meandering structure that expresses the search for and step-by-step construction of a cultural and political alternative, and an emphasis on translation and encounter as principles of interaction with difference.

This article analyses a range of discourses articulated around the figure of the film archive between the late nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries, accounting for the various possibilities that they open up for considering audiovisual heritage as a potential space either for revolutionary change or for political or textual resistance. Focused mainly on archival discourses in Mexico, the article traces their interaction with both national-historical and anti-imperialist narratives, and the implications of digital and online culture for the encounter between the archiving of film and resistance. It accounts for the position of the archive in negotiations between state and private capital and spaces of artistic autonomy, and for the relationships between the archive, modernity, postmodernity and the notion of posterity.

Nos proponemos aquí reconstruir la travesía de la canción amorosa en Joan Manuel Serrat, uno de los íconos consagrados de la canción de autor española. El núcleo problemático de la intimidad intentará abordarse, en principio, en su desbrozamiento como construcción discursiva e histórica, en múltiples niveles. Una segunda cuestión, también expuesta brevemente, intentará trazar un panorama sobre las representaciones del amor en la canción de autor española surgida por los sesenta en su aparente ruptura con los modelos de la «canción folklórica» y otros géneros coetáneos. Finalmente, abordaremos las representaciones del amor trazadas por las canciones de Serrat, en sus diversos y encontrados acentos y matices. Desde la reescritura de la tópica amorosa enmarcada en una nueva «sentimentalidad» histórica, la ironía, la parodia y la reflexión crítica sobre las instituciones sancionadas por el sistema, Serrat dibuja un mapa en el que, a un tiempo, genera en sus receptores el doble efecto de extrañamiento y de reconocimiento, invitándolos a la sorpresa y a la complicidad.

Mucho se está hablando, desde hace algunos años, de la expansión u transformación del concepto de «literatura» y, en lo atinente a esta comunicación, de «poesía», a partir de desplazamientos habilitados por una serie de prácticas culturales diversificadas y, consecuentemente, por las teorizaciones y aproximaciones críticas concurrentes. Del binomio en paridad representado en la expresión «diálogos intermediales», que escenifica la sincronía de dos objetos en comunicación, intersección o, más apropiadamente, hibridación, llegamos a neologismos más rizomáticos como la ex poesía (Romano Sued) que hacen explotar los centros de una práctica y de una institución hacia sus bordes. «Excentricidad» y «experimentación» entonces, manifiestas en nuevas textualidades por fuera de toda consideración genérica considerada inactual, o incluyéndola pero explicitando claramente su territorialidad distintiva.

Uno de los rasgos que signan la identidad caribeña se corresponde, sin lugar a dudas, con un área expresiva tan intensa y extensa como la de la música popular bailable. Durante mucho tiempo relegada a planos secundarios por los estudios culturológicos, su investigación ha ido ganando terreno e importancia, ya que adentrarse en su conocimiento presupone el hacerlo en la cultura de los hombres que viven en esta área geográfica y su interacción con el mundo.

PRESENTACION / 11 NOS ECHAMOS A LA CALLE / 15 La calle como espacio extraoficial de comunicación / 17 El derecho a la fachada, el deber a la ciudad / 21 Espacio urbano y graffiti / 33 QUE ES EL GRAFFITI? / 39 Hacia una definición / 41 El graffiti americano (¿o es europeo?) 47 QUE ES EL GRAFFITI MOVE? / 65 Ya llegan los bárbaros! / 67 Orígenes del Graffiti Move / 71 La participación de la mujer en la génesis del graffiti Su expansión por Europa / 89 Directrices del Graffiti Move / 95 Motivaciones básicas de los escritores de graffiti 105 Las contradjcciones del sistema / 117 Graffiti y contracultura / 119 GRAFFITI, ARTE, DELITO, JUEGO Y LOCURA / 125 La conciencia histórica y artística del Graffiti Move / 127 La identidad artística del escritor de graffiti / 135 La extravagancia artística y la subversión grafitera / 141 Graffiti y juego / 147 Neo barroquismo y graffiti / 153 Aerosol y ¡¡Madness!! / 157 EL ARTE DEL GRAFFITI / 163 Academicismo Graffiti Move / 165 Y el graffiti entró en los museos / 181 De la calle a la galería / 187 El Postgraffiti / 195 EPÍLOGO / 203 Luces y sombras / 205 BIBLIOGRAFIA E INDICE DE LAS ILUSTRACIONES / 209 *** Graphitfragen. Una mirada reflexiva sobre el Graffiti se concibe como una recopilación de textos realizados entre 1998 y 2005, que incluyen artículos, conferencias, ponencias o capítulos de mi tesis doctoral y que plantean de un modo abierto diferentes aspectos históricos, estéticos, artísticos, antropológicos, políticos, éticos, etc. concernientes al graffiti contemporáneo. Respecto a la publicación digital con el mismo título, realizada en 2001 por Minotauro Digital, se presenta como una revisión y ampliación de sus contenidos, continuando la pretensión que guiaba aquella experiencia de repasar, poner en orden, plantear y suscitar una serie de cuestiones que revolotean en torno a este fenómeno cultural y que, igualmente, tocan a todas aquellas manifestaciones culturales de nuestros días que se emparentan de una u otra forma con él.

Resumen En este artículo se reflexiona sobre la función que tiene la poesía de la memoria de la Guerra Civil española en los espacios públicos, setenta años después del inicio de la guerra. A partir de dos poemas, "El campo de batalla" de Ángel González y "El pasado" de Luis García Montero, se lleva a cabo un análisis de los mecanismos de rememoración colectiva. Así, se presentan ambos poemas como homenaje a la lírica que se escribió y publicó durante la República y la Guerra, y como lugar de encuentro de la memoria de los vencidos. Palabras clave: Ángel González; Luis García Montero; Guerra Civil; Rivas Vaciamadrid. This article studies the function of the poetry of memory of the Spanish Civil War in public spheres, seventy years after the war. Focusing in two poems, "El campo de batalla" by Angel González and "El pasado" by Luis García Montero, an analysis of the mechanisms of collective remembrance is carried out. Thus, the two poems are presented as a homage to the lyric written and published during the Republic and the War, and also as a meeting point for the memory of the defeated. Keywords: Ángel González; Luis García Montero; Civil War; Rivas Vaciamadrid.