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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.