1st Edition

Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture Location and Latin American Net Art

By Claire Taylor Copyright 2014
242 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o) American identity... Read more

Preface: Negotiating Net Art Communities in Latin America  1. Introduction: Re-articulating Place: The Resistant Use of Technologies and the Tactics of Re-territorialization in Latin(o) American Net Art  2. Memoria Histórica de la Alameda: The Mapping Out of Resistant Memory Battles in Chile  3. Sites of Memory in Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina  4. Re-Mapping Montevideo: Affective Cartographies and Post-Digital Remixes in Brian Mackern's 34s56w.org  5. Questioning Democracy and Re-encoding the Map of Colombia: Martha Patricia Niño’s Demo Scape V 0.5  6. Monopolies and Maquiladoras: The Resistant Re-encoding of Gaming in Coco Fusco and Ricardo Domínguez’s Turista Fronterizo  7. Resignifying the Border and the Streets in Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga’s Vagamundo, A Migrant’s Tale  8. Conclusion: Struggles over Place: Latin(o) American Net Art as Resistant Praxis

Biography

Claire Taylor is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her recent publications include Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production, co-authored with Thea Pitman (Routledge, 2013), Identity, Nation, Discourse, ed. (2009) and Latin American Cyberliterature and Cyberculture, co-edited with Thea Pitman (2007).

"Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture is bound to become a permanent reference not only in Latin American Studies but also among various disciplines in new media and the digital humanities. A much needed interdisciplinary contribution to the study of globalization in all its forms." -- Eduardo Navas, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA