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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.

In October 2007, over the course of a weekend, several hundred people descended on Coronel Pringles, a small town in the Argentine pampas. For two days they would participate, along with many of the town’s residents, in a series of workshops and performances held under the aegis of the Asociación Civil Estación Pringles, an organization founded in 2006 and headed by the poet Arturo Carrera. This inaugural event centered on the practice of declamation, one of the ‘viejas prácticas sociales y artı́sticas’ (‘timeworn social and artistic practices’) that Estación Pringles seeks to place into dialogue with the work of contemporary artists, writers and performers. In its founding statement, the project casts this dialogue in theatrical terms, calling itself ‘una plataforma o una escena donde prácticas estéticas dispersas en un espacio lateral puedan agregarse, articularse, hacerse visibles’ (‘a platform or scene where aesthetic practices, scattered throughout a lateral space, might come together, be articulated, become visible’). Indeed, an emphasis on theatricality would reappear in Carrera’s closing remarks to the 2007 gathering, in which he couches the practice of declamation in terms of a ‘teatrito,’ a ‘little theater’ (Estación Pringles).

Conversamos con Chus Pato sobre a temática á que refire a convocatoria deste presente nº de Derritaxes, “Filosofía e literatura”, e comezamos facendo referencia explícita precisamente ao texto da convocatoria, a modo de introdución da conversa.

Leggeremo ancora, forse leggeremo più di prima, allo stesso modo e diversamente, ma qualcosa cambierà nelle nostre abitudini, inequivocabilmente. La diffusione degli strumenti elettronici per la scrittura, la lettura e la comunicazione ha portato a una vera e propria "esplosione testuale": oggi viviamo letteralmente immersi nei testi, li scriviamo, li scambiamo, li stampiamo, li leggiamo su carta, su schermi piccoli e grandi. Ma non è una semplice questione di quantità. Il rapporto con il testo si è modificato profondamente con i supporti digitali. Si legge, si scrive, si pubblica in spazi, tempi e modi mai sperimentati prima. I testi ora si possono leggere ma anche ascoltare, guardare, toccare; si possono attraversare sfuggendo alla lettura lineare; si possono scrivere collettivamente in modo interattivo; si possono mescolare alla realtà in forme inedite di testualità aumentata. Questo libro offre un’illuminante esplorazione delle nuove forme di testualità, di scrittura, di lettura e di pubblicazione, collocando la riflessione in una prospettiva storica. Partendo dall’analisi della tradizione, l’autrice ci guida attraverso considerazioni e sviluppi tecnologici, intuizioni di geniali visionari e abitudini quotidiane, ripresa di forme comunicative e sperimentazioni di un futuro che possiamo solo intravedere. Il testo digitale 1 Presentazione 10 Introduzione 16 Capitolo 1 - Tutti i testi del mondo / 1.1 E-text 18 1.2 Testo/scrittura 22 1.3 Il testo da ascoltare 27 1.4 Un mondo da leggere 30 1.5 Il testo come intenzione comunicativa 34 1.6 Dialogare con il lettore 35 1.7 Il testo come oggetto 38 1.8 Il testo senza materia 40 Capitolo 2 - Il testo per pensare / 2.1 Scrittura e conoscenza 44 2.2 Appunti, commenti, note 46 2.3 Le mappe del testo 51 2.4 Scritture di servizio 54 2.5 Testi in gestazione 58 2.6 Le grammatiche invisibili 64 2.7 Opere aperte 68 Capitolo 3 - Leggere l'alfabeto / 3.1 Leggere libri 72 3.2 Breve storia del testo a stampa 78 3.3 Le parti del testo 83 3.4 Impaginato e pagine 86 3.5 Caratteri 90 3.6 Tra passato e presente 94 3.7 Caratteri liquidi e testi aumentati 97 Capitolo 4 - Testi da guardare / 4.1 Immersi nel testo 102 4.2 Libri illustrati e affini 107 4.3 Immagini da leggere 113 4.4 Leggere le immagini 117 4.5 Audio 122 4.6 Multimedia 128 4.7 Digital storytelling 132 4.8 Magic text 136 Capitolo 5 - Testi da esplorare / 5.1 Navigare tra le pagine 140 5.2 Scritture ipertestuali 143 5.3 La Rete, ipertesto per eccellenza 148 5.4 Alla ricerca di informazioni 152 5.5 Fidarsi di ció che si legge 156 5.6 Testi a scoperta 160 5.7 Il testo di studio 164 Capitolo 6 - Testi condivisi / 6.1 Leggere insieme 170 6.2 Scrivere insieme 173 6.3 Strumenti per la scrittura collaborativa 177 6.4 Esperienze di testi a piú mani 179 Capitolo 7 - I proprietari del testo / 7.1 Autori 184 7.2 Editori 191 7.3 Lettori 195 7.4 Collezionisti e biblioteche 199 Conclusioni - ebook: leggere senza pagine 204 Bibliografia 214 La relación con el texto se ha modificado profundamente desde que el mundo se ha vuelto digital: se lee, se escribe, nos vemos y escuchamos en espacios, tiempos y modos que nunca fueron experimentados hasta ahora. Hoy los textos pueden ser leídos, pero también escuchados. Podemos escribir colectivamente en modo interactivo y se pueden mezclar a la realidad en formas inéditas de textualidad aumentada.

This is a book about the politics of alternative poetries and poetic practices, and the ways that experiments in poetry have provided 'spaces' within which radical or revolutionary perspectives can be developed. It explores social and cultural ideas that more normative mainstream cultural representations might seek to suppress. It demonstrates the ways that poems say things about cultural and social issues, and can say them in new and different ways. My work is conceptual, drawing on a variety of theoretical positions to help read poems that are resistant to giving up an easily digested meaning. It is also empirical, and begins with the material evidence of the poems, worrying away at individual words in detailed analyses of the semantic and syntactical relationships in the work. I try to show that any difficulty is worth the effort, and that poems that try to reflect the complexities of modern and contemporary culture and society are not only sometimes difficult to read, but they often have to be.

Das Konzept der Öffentlichkeit ist ein fundamentaler Bestandteil des Selbstverständnisses der modernen demokratischen Gesellschaften, da es eine besondere Beziehung zwischen Gesellschaft und politischer Macht reflektiert und die Konstituierung eines Kommunikationsraums anzeigt, in dem sich eine öffentliche Meinung und ein kollektiver Wille herausbilden. Obwohl seine semantischen Wurzeln bis in die Antike zurückreichen, wurde das Konzept der Öffentlichkeit als solches erst im Laufe des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts mit der Konsolidierung der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft definiert. Die programmatische Formulierung der Öffentlichkeit im Geiste der Aufklärung weicht jedoch von ihrer durch wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Beschränkungen bedingten unvollkommenen Umsetzung ab, aufgrund derer die Öffentlichkeit schon seit dem 19. Jahrhundert als Fiktion der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft kritisiert wurde. Jürgen Habermas hat den Prozess der Herausbildung der modernen Öffentlichkeit in Zusammenhang mit der Entwicklung der Medien beschrieben, wobei er gleichzeitig ihre normativen Grundlagen herausstellte und ihr aufklärerisches Potential innerhalb eines Modells der deliberativen Demokratie einforderte, das auf der Möglichkeit der rationalen Regulierung der Kommunikation durch die Strukturen der Sprache selbst beruht. Das hier entstehende Modell der Öffentlichkeit stößt allerdings bei seiner faktischen Umsetzung auf eine Hürde, nämlich die ambivalente Rolle der Massenmedien in der öffentlichen Kommunikation. Diese können die Kommunikationskreisläufe einer Zivilgesellschaft dynamisieren, sich andererseits aber auch in den Dienst von Formen politischer oder ökonomischer Macht stellen. Das Aufkommen des Internets verändert dieses Panorama der öffentlichen Kommunikation. Durch die Eröffnung eines allgemeinen Zugangs zu einem Raum interaktiver Kommunikation konfiguriert die neue Technologie die Öffentlichkeit neu und lässt erstmals eine weitestmögliche Annäherung an das von Habermas formulierte Ideal der gleichberechtigten und symmetrischen Kommunikation ohne Ausgrenzung vorstellbar werden. In der Realität jedoch erscheint die computervermittelte Kommunikation weniger argumentativ und konsensorientiert, als das habermassche Modell der Kommunikation postuliert; das Internet kann sich vielmehr unter Umständen als agonaler Raum erweisen, nämlich dann, wenn sich in ihm ein politischer Kampf um Hegemonie abspielt, aber auch, wenn es im elementaren Sinne zu einem Spielraum wird, in dem die illokutiven Zwänge des argumentativen Austauschs außer Kraft gesetzt werden. Angesichts der jüngsten Entwicklungen des Internet fällt auch auf, dass es sich in phänomenologischem Sinne als öffentlicher Raum konstituiert, indem es ein allgemeines Erscheinen vor anderen ermöglicht, welches zu Zeiten der Vorherrschaft der Massenmedien einigen wenigen vorbehalten war. Der Raum der virtuellen neuen Öffentlichkeit wird damit nicht nur zu einer Bühne für kollektive (sub)politische Äußerungen, sondern auch für persönliche Inszenierungen, und reflektiert damit eine erneute Verschiebung der Grenzen zwischen dem Öffentlichen und dem Privaten, aus der sich schließlich die Frage ergibt, weshalb die Aufrechterhaltung ebendieser Grenzen überhaupt notwendig bzw. wünschenswert ist.

Josefina Ludmer en el ensayo más esperado de la década deja de lado las categorías de la teoría literaria utilizadas hasta el momento en busca de nuevas articulaciones y nociones que recorran todas las divisiones actuales y permitan entender la configuración política económica y social de los años 2000 en América latina. El resultado es una serie de esbozos teóricos que parten de un universo sin afueras real virtual al que llama imaginación pública o fabrica de realidad. Un universo que no diferencia entre realidad y ficción y cuya lógica es el movimiento la conectividad la superposición y la sobreimpresión de todo lo visto y oído. La literatura es hilo conductor de la imaginación pública y la vía por la que la especulación entra en esa fábrica de realidad. Las temporalidades y los territorios que instalan las ficciones literarias latinoamericanas de los últimos años (como las de Fernando Vallejo, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Martín Kohan, Perla Suez o Diamela Eltit) definen una forma determinada de “realidadficción”. Un libro decisivo de una de las figuras más lúcidas de la crítica actual indispensable para pensar la América latina del siglo XXI.

El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar un análisis comparativo de la semiosis del espacio urbano en cinco poemarios publicados recientemente en la ciudad de Buenos Aires: Aquel corazón descamisado (2002) de Luis Tedesco, El carrito de Eneas (2003) de Daniel Samoilovich, La rebelión del instante (2005) de Diana Bellessi, Solos y solas (2005) de Tamara Kamenszain y Poemas del sin trabajo (2007) de Eduardo Mileo. En todos ellos se textualizan voces, miradas e itinerarios que atraviesan la ciudad contemporánea, apelando a una gran diversidad de imágenes, tópicos y estrategias discursivas. La tríada conceptual crisis-deconstrucción-empatía permitirá leer en conjunto diferentes modalidades en que los textos poéticos traducen y reenvían a las complejidades del imaginario social.

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.

O artigo que aqui se inicia parte de uma reflexão mais genérica sobre a imagem e a visualidade na cidade, para se centrar num exemplo que considero particularmente interessante para o estudo das dinâmicas contemporâneas de apropriação do espaço urbano que recorrem a dispositivos de natureza visual. A cidade é, neste contexto, tomada como artefacto cultural, uma fabricação histórica participada por agentes com poderes e desejos desiguais. Nesta arena conflitual habitam pessoas e comunidades com condições, vontades, práticas e representações, dissemelhantes. A cidade espelha esta multiplicidade ontológica com propensão a revelar-se na matéria visível do quotidiano. À tona emergem sinais, social e culturalmente significativos, que contribuem para a fundação de um ecossistema simbólico e comunicativo particular. Podemos, eventualmente, encarar a existência de uma cultura visual urbana (Wells, 2007) dada a especificidade de agentes, gramáticas e mecanismos de comunicação que conseguimos antever neste território.

Leggerezza, Rapidità, Esattezza, Visibilità, Molteplicità e Consistenza sono i sei valori - le sei qualità o specificità - al centro delle Lezioni americane, l'ultima opera, rimasta incompleta, di Italo Calvino. Letti con gli occhi di oggi, questi sei promemoria, o "proposte non solo letterarie", si scoprono appartenere a quella nuova sensibilità culturale e sociale emersa sul finire del XX secolo in concomitanza con una evoluzione del sistema dei media, accelerata dalla convergenza tra le tecnologie digitali e le reti di comunicazione. Attraverso una serie di suggestive corrispondenze, lo spirito delle sei Lezioni assume la forma di una inedita trama interpretativa, adatta a sondare le componenti sensibili dell'attuale universo dell'arte e dei media, e delineare luci e ombre dell'esperienza estetica nei fatti artistici e tecnologici del nostro tempo, schiuso sull'orizzonte postmoderno. Riportando il discorso estetico al suo etimo, all'insieme eterogeneo dei fatti materiali e culturali che incidono sulla sfera sensoriale e intellettiva, i nuovi media appaiono per ciò che sono: processi di mediazione col mondo, meccanismi di formazione e di estetizzazione dell'esperienza. L'ambito dell'estetica e quello dei media si ritrovano perciò ad agire all'interno di un progetto unitario, edificati l'uno sul risvolto dell'altro.