Imagination and materialism: Theoretical-critical fictions in the face of crisis

Authors

Paula La Rocca (ed)
Ana Neuburger (ed)

Keywords:

Imagination, materialism, fiction and theory

Synopsis

The e-book, edited by Paula La Rocca and Ana Neuburger, brings together a collection of texts that explore the forms of imagination in the face of crisis, the intersections between fiction and theory, the languages of criticism, and their concern with addressing the materiality of what exists.

Chapters

  • introduction
    Paula La Rocca, Ana Neuburger
  • Imagining language: taking the risk of fiction
  • The material imagination of language
    Elements for an undisciplined linguistics
    Gabriela Milone
  • Haiku
    a line where the earth fits
    Julia Jorge
  • Imagining childhood, inventing language
    Fictions about a poetic language of childhood in Non mais! by Serge Ritman
    Adriana Canseco
  • Illuminations and material traces
  • Something like a flash
    Emilia Casiva
  • Something like a flash
    River drifts in the Cabezón Cámara desert
    Ana Neuburger
  • Projections by Delight Lab and Gabriel Orge
    Ways in which contemporary art is affected by the materiality of light
    Paula La Rocca
  • Crisis and the humanities: the work of the imagination
  • Latin Americanism as a theoretical-critical space
    Concerns about literary “problematism”
    Silvana Santucci
  • Heterogeneity and fiction in the humanities
    Natalia Lorio
  • The call for attention
    Mimetic, aesthetic, and ethical modulations in the face of crisis
    Nicolás López, Franca Maccioni
  • Material explorations and posthuman figurations
  • A mythology for thresholds
    Imagining and thinking about modes of existence on Earth from the perspective of materialist (com)posthumanism
    Paula Fleisner
  • The corrosion of scales (all too human)
    Liliana Colanzi's cave: a geological eye that records the tangled threads that weave the stories of the Earth
    Belisario Zalazar
  • Deviations from a metaphor
    Diffraction in Karen Barad and the interference of the question by writing
    María Milagros González
Imaginación y materialismos

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Published

December 19, 2024

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-950-33-1818-8