Speculative fictions : Chilean culture, economics, and the neoliberal transition / Alessandro Fornazzari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fornazzari, Alessandro, 1970-

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism--Chile.

Neoliberalism.

Culture--Economic aspects--Chile.

Culture.

Culture--Economic aspects.

Chile--Civilization--20th century.

Chile.

Civilization.

Chilean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chilean literature.

Chile--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

National characteristics, Chilean.

Physical Description:

viii, 158 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]

Summary:

"Speculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present. To Alessandro Fornazzari, the move to market capitalism effectively blurred the lines between economics and aesthetics, perhaps nowhere more evidently than in Chile. Through exemplary works of film, literature, the visual arts, testimonials, and cultural theory, Fornazzari reveals the influence of economics over nearly every aspect of culture and society. Citing Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Willy Thayer, Milton Friedman, and others, Fornazzari forms the theoretical basis for his neoliberal transitional discourse as a logical progression of capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 The Brooder's Startled Gaze: José Donoso, Broken Allegories, and the Commodity Form 13

2 Literature and Labor: Post-Fordism and Human Capital in Diamela Eltit and Arturo Fontaine 39

3 Restitution, Memory, and the Market: The Chilean Documentary 63

4 Critical Visuality or Global Subsumption? Neoliberal Biopolitics, Chilean Visual Arts, and the Economic Text 87

5 Reflections on a Residual Formation: Intellectual Work, Real Subsumption, and Socialized Labor 106.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822962335

0822962330

OCLC:

819717829