2.THE GENEALOGY OF A DEFEAT Latin American Culture under Dictatorship

The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that a critical perspective anchored in conflict and multiplicity at the edge of what is termed “human” can generate fresh assessments of the ways in which Latin American cultural production has confronted historical, ethical, political, and economic processes. Such cultural production at the edge of the human promotes awareness of the ways in which the decentering of the human subject, now so often invoked as a means of encouraging radical equality across species lines, has also been used as an instrument of oppression and exclusion across history. Our principal argument is that a conceptual focus on “limits” as figures of human-nonhuman relations allows for the opening up of new dimensions to longstanding debates around identity and difference, the local and the global, and coloniality and power in Latin American culture.

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In and Out of Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities in Latin America ◽

10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste ◽

Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Digital Humanities ◽

American Culture ◽

General Context ◽

Cultural Hegemony ◽

Ample Evidence ◽

Digital Aesthetics ◽

Latin American Culture

This introductory chapter provides a general context for this collection, starting with the anecdotal inception of the project. It provides a list of some of the important titles in the field of digital humanities that figure prominently as academic predecessors and ponders on the consequences and implications of the digital turn in the humanities for the study of Latinx and Latin American culture. In response to the cultural hegemony of Anglocentric circles in the digital humanities, it provides ample evidence of the development and existence of the field in Latin America. Finally, it provides a brief overview of the four sections into which the book is divided: digital nations, transnational networks, digital aesthetics and practices, and interviews with Latin American DH scholars.

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Latinoarte: information on Latin American art

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200009433 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 8-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elsa Barberena

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

American Culture ◽

American Art ◽

Latin American Art ◽

Latin American Culture

Latin American culture is very rich, yet there is insufficient documentation on Latin American art, and much of the documentation which does exist is not adequately covered by the major art indexes. A number of magazines have set out, especially since the 1940s, to disseminate information about Latin American art, but most have been short-lived. The LATINOARTE project, based in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), aims to develop and to network a database including citations to documentation available in 62 libraries and information centres inside and outside Latin America. Already, some 1,500 records are available on contemporary Latin American art. (The edited text of a paper presented to the IFLA Section of Art Libraries at the IFLA General Conference at Havana, August 1994.)

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