Cyborgs in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cyborgs in Latin America write by J. Andrew Brown. This book was released on 2010. Cyborgs in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract: Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. The book takes a literary and cultural studies approach in examining narrative, film and advertising campaigns from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay by such artists as Ricardo Piglia, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Carmen Boullosa and Alberto Fuguet among others. Using and criticizing theoretical models developed by Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, the book will appeal to specialists and students of Latin American Studies; Posthuman Theory; and Literature, Science and Technology Studies
Cyborgs in Latin America
Cyborgs in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cyborgs in Latin America write by J. Brown. This book was released on 2010-08-18. Cyborgs in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.
Of animals, monsters, and cyborgs
Of animals, monsters, and cyborgs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of animals, monsters, and cyborgs write by Liliana Colanzi. This book was released on 2017. Of animals, monsters, and cyborgs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work draws from animal studies, biopolitics, and posthumanism to explore the ways in which the body is simultaneously inscribed and erased in seven Latin American texts from the last fifty years: from João Guimarães Rosa's “Meu tio o Iauaretê” (1961) to Martín Felipe Castagnet's Los cuerpos del verano (2012), and including Sara Gallardo's Eisejuaz (1971), Jorge Baron Biza's El desierto y su semilla (1998), Mario Bellatin's Flores (2000), Miguel Esquirol's “El Cementerio de Elefantes” (2008), and Rafael Pinedo's Subte (2012). In these novels and short stories the body is the place where issues of race, sexuality, and ethnicity are negociated and contested: I focus on the figures of the animal, the monster, and the cyborg as bodies that escape the confining limits of a white, rational, and heterosexual normativity modeled after modern and contemporary Western ideals. In all these narratives, the marginalized body helps to destabilize binary concepts such as nature/culture, human/animal, normal/abnormal, civilization/barbarism, and is the springboard from which biological life -- instead of the usually dominant logos -- is able to generate a field of affect, estrangement, or resistance which can be influential in the creation of alternative communities. In the aforementioned cases, the animal sign is instrumental in thinking on those bodies -- whether they are sick, disabled, queer, poor, marginalized, female, indigenous, minority -- that do not conform to an hegemonic image of Man.
Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction
Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction write by Antonio Córdoba. This book was released on 2022-11-23. Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of agency, and engages in environmentalist theory in ways that are estranging and open to new forms of species companionship. Essays cover literature, film, TV shows, and music, grouped in three sections: “Posthumanist Subjects” examines Latin(x) American iterations of some of the most common figurations of the posthuman, such as the cyborg and virtual environments and selves; “Slow Violence and Environmental Threats” understands that posthumanist meditations in the hemisphere take place in a material and cultural context shaped by the catastrophic destruction of the environment; the chapters in “Posthumanist Others” shows how the reimagination of the self and the world that posthumanism offers may be an opportunity to break the hold that oppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed.
Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production
Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production write by Claire Taylor. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they circulate online. The intellectual rationale for the volume is located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical strands: theories of digital culture, in their majority the product of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin American identity and culture.
