Periphērica
type: channel
description: Periphērica offers new critical perspectives and in-depth research on the literary, social, and cultural histories of Latino-América and Iberia.
publisher: University of Oregon
language: eu
publication name: Periphērica
issn: 2642-6811
items: On the Provenance, Areas of Concern, and Reasons for Infrapolitics Now.
items: Memorias coloniales y huella africana: Raza, género e imperio en la España contemporánea.
items: Archival Possibilities: New Considerations of Black African and Afro-descendant Communities in Iberia.
items: Review of Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile. Remembering Violence through Film and Literature
items: “Aquí estoy si acaso me ven”. Relecturas transhemiféricas en torno a Gabriela Mistral.
items: Canto de amor por Renée Nicole Good
items: Poemas
items: Cine desde los márgenes: Entrevista a Juan Carlos Mege
items: Cinematic Fissures: Life, Image, and Infrapolitics
items: El silencio de otros. Momentos de verdad:
items: Narratives of Estrangement in Infrapolitics and in Lucrecia Martel's Cinema of Perception
items: Existential Dysphoria, Gender, and Extinction: An Infrapolitical Reflection on 20.000 especies de abejas
items: “The Indefensible Story” by Edgardo Cozarinsky
items: La temporalidad de la deuda durante la Gran Recesión en la novela En la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes
items: El once antes del once
items: Generar naciones: Yawar Mallku entre eugenesia y biopolítica
items: Curepto es mi concepto. Reseña
items: An Aesthetics of Resistance: Voluspa Jarpa’s Necroarchivos
items: María Reimóndez. A casa do amo. Unha análise do discurso colonial e racista na literatura galega. Vigo: Edicións Xerais, 2024, 150 páginas. ISBN: 9788411104722
items: Raúl Ruiz, Poetics Of Cinema And “Intentionality”: Unworking The Soul’s Standardization Against The Government Of The Living.
items: Un escenario de guerra: La frontera en postales y películas de la Revolución mexicana
items: Total Mobilization: Stasis, Infrapolitics, and Contemporary Temporalization in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Güeros
items: An-archē-ism in Caballos salvajes
items: El puente
items: Charlie D. Hankin. Break and Flow: Hip-Hop Poetics in the Americas. New World Studies. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023. x, 276 pp.
items: Book review. Ana Fernández Cebrián. Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967).
items: Keep the Silence from Speaking Poetry by Hubert Matiúwàa and Martín Tonalmeyotl as Ritual Responses to Drug Violence
items: Un libro escrito entre ruinas: Risking a Sumersault in the Air de Margarett Randall
items: Vincular palabra y la realidad: un trabajo por hacer
items: A la escucha de la contrahistoria desde las cloacas: Un asesino solitario de Élmer Mendoza

On the Provenance, Areas of Concern, and Reasons for Infrapolitics Now.
type: item
description: In the pages that follow, I would like to present for the reader my understanding of the provenance and need for infrapolitical thinking now. What follows below in reference to the project’s provenance is a slightly modified version of a section of the book I published in 2021 on the question of infrapolitics, titled Infrapolitical Passages: Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign State.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2026 Periphērica https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-01-20
publication date: 2026-01-20
doi: 10.7264/4kqw7p16

Memorias coloniales y huella africana: Raza, género e imperio en la España contemporánea.
type: item
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
creator: Nayra
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6701

Archival Possibilities: New Considerations of Black African and Afro-descendant Communities in Iberia.
type: item
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
creator: Rachel Williams
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
doi: 10.7264/xpgb8t52

Review of Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile. Remembering Violence through Film and Literature
type: item
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Chilean culture
  topic: subjects
subject: Spanish Culture
  topic: subjects
subject: Iberian Studies
  topic: subjects
subject: Transatlantic Studies
  topic: subjects
subject: Masculinity
  topic: subjects
subject: Militarism
  topic: subjects
creator: Ana Ros Matturro
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2026 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-01-20
publication date: 2026-01-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6699

“Aquí estoy si acaso me ven”. Relecturas transhemiféricas en torno a Gabriela Mistral.
type: item
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Gabriela Mistral
  topic: keywords
subject: Poetry
  topic: subjects
subject: Literature
  topic: disciplines
creator: Carolina Berrocal
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6697

Canto de amor por Renée Nicole Good
type: item
subject: Escritura Creativa
  topic: section
creator: Jesús
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2026 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-01-20
publication date: 2026-01-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6696

Poemas
type: item
description: Ascocracia: Clorogel y mascarilla Permanencia definitiva
subject: Escritura Creativa
  topic: section
creator: Andrea Leyton Beltrán
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6695

Cine desde los márgenes: Entrevista a Juan Carlos Mege
type: item
description: Cine desde los márgenes: Entrevista de Jesús Sepúlveda a Juan Carlos Mege
subject: Interviews/Entrevistas
  topic: section
subject: Chilean cinema
  topic: subjects
subject: Cinema
  topic: subjects
subject: Chile
  topic: subjects
creator: Jesús
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6694

Cinematic Fissures: Life, Image, and Infrapolitics
type: item
description: Introduction to the dossier on Film and Infrapolitics
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
subject: life
  topic: keywords
subject: image
  topic: keywords
subject: infrapolitics
  topic: keywords
subject: film
  topic: subjects
subject: infrapolitics
  topic: subjects
subject: film studies
  topic: disciplines
subject: continental philosophy
  topic: disciplines
subject: critical theory
  topic: disciplines
creator: Daniel Runnels
creator: José Luis Suárez Morales
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6693

El silencio de otros. Momentos de verdad:
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description: El silencio de otros se estructura a partir de tres puntos nodales que combinan, 1) un fuerte compromiso con una estética altamente creativa y original; 2) un proyecto político y ético de restitución y justicia que, sin embargo, excede lo político (sin negarlo) para abrirse a una registro de lo infrapolítico o, podríamos decir, del encuentro abismal de sus protagonistas con la existencia y la muerte vía la memoria individual (la experiencia de lo más íntimo) y el duelo (la experiencia de lo inasimilable); y 3) una memoria archivista (la historiografía), que incluye escenas extraídas de los archivos históricos y del acto del testimonio del horror (el relato público de la experiencia del horror y la tragedia) que aspiran a educar, informar y darle valor histórico a la experiencia de la violencia. Estos tres nódulos (lo estético, lo ético y lo histórico) dan lugar en la narrativa documental a cuatro diferentes pero relacionados campos de reflexión: la política, o el impulso a la acción que gobierna y calcula; la estética, a la que concierne principalmente la esencia de la imagen, su fuerza y su potencia; la filosofía del derecho, o aquello que, siguiendo a Jacques Derrida, arrebata la posibilidad misma de la experiencia de la justicia; y la infrapolítica, que nos lleva a preguntarnos por la existencia y por el ser alejándonos de las construcciones de un pensamiento sobre la subjetividad. Jacques Rancière, un pensador de la política y de la estética; Hito Steyerl, pensadora de la imagen documental como espacio potencial de la emergencia de “la” verdad; Jacques Derrida, pensador de la justicia, el derecho y la ley; y Gareth Williams junto a los pensadores infrapolíticos preocupados por la existencia, fundan y guían, con mayor o menor profundidad, esta reflexión sobre El silencio de otros, un documental de Almudena Carracedo y Robert Bahar del 2018 que responsablemente se atraviesa por el deseo in-calculable, y de ahí, infrapolítico, de traer a escena la experiencia de la…
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
subject: historia
  topic: keywords
subject: duelo
  topic: keywords
subject: franquismo
  topic: keywords
subject: ética
  topic: keywords
subject: estética
  topic: keywords
subject: documental
  topic: keywords
subject: infrapolítica
  topic: keywords
subject: Leyes de memoria
  topic: subjects
subject: Cine documental
  topic: subjects
subject: Estudios sobre cine
  topic: disciplines
subject: Estudios de memoria
  topic: disciplines
subject: Estudios Ibéricos
  topic: disciplines
creator: Cristina Moreiras Menor
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6106

Narratives of Estrangement in Infrapolitics and in Lucrecia Martel's Cinema of Perception
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description: This essay studies cinema and infrapolitics from the standpoint of estrangement as a narrative device that sets perception and politics in relationship to one another. It proposes that recent books on infrapolitics by Gareth Williams and Alberto Moreiras deconstruct prominent narratives of estrangement in which the processes of perceptual renewal catalyzed by art are ultimately understood in terms of their ulterior political significance, and elaborate alternate narratives in which estrangement instead makes perceptible, and marks the passage to, an in-eliminable strangeness at the heart of the relationship between politics and life. It then interprets Lucrecia Martel’s 2015 short film Leguas in terms of its interweaving of political and infrapolitical narratives of estrangement. It finally turns to a recent essay by Silvia Schwarzböck, titled Los monstruos más fríos: estética después del cine (2017), which narrates cinema history in terms of how twentieth-century cinema, by teaching viewers to identify with the cold, inhuman strangeness of the camera’s gaze, contributed to the increasing estrangement of human perception into the machinations of the modern state. Through its study of these materials, this essay argues that narratives of estrangement form an important standpoint for approaching the relationship between cinema and infrapolitics, due to the central significance of perceptual renewal–that is, the possibility of seeing things differently–to both the cinematic medium and infrapolitical reflection.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
subject: Estrangement
  topic: keywords
subject: Silvia Schwarzböck
  topic: keywords
subject: Cinema
  topic: keywords
subject: Infrapolitics
  topic: keywords
subject: Lucrecia Martel
  topic: keywords
subject: Gareth Williams
  topic: keywords
subject: Alberto Moreiras
  topic: keywords
creator: Matt Johnson
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6076

Existential Dysphoria, Gender, and Extinction: An Infrapolitical Reflection on 20.000 especies de abejas
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description: What is the relationship between gender difference, its dysphorias, and the growing threat of human extinction? The film 20.000 especies de abejas (20,000 Species of Bees) by the Spanish-Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (2023) dwells into this overwhelming question by portraying the life of Aitor-Cocó-Lucía, an 8-year-old whose coming of age gravitates between 1) the politics of gender (of identity, convention, tradition, and the phallologocentrism of the subject) and 2) the desistance, distance, and infrapolitical inscription that they (Cocó-Aitor-Lucía) are experiencing in their gender transition as they face the politics of binarism and subject identity. Through a filmic analysis of the child’s unease in an era of decontainment and turmoil, this article argues that their gender transition, in its secret and everyday unfolding, constitutes an existential decision. This existential decision to transform themselves through re-naming affirms the untamable diversity of the human condition: it presents the human as a species that is not above other species. Beneath all the above, however, there is an infrapolitical register signing at an ominous truth: that no identity, human inclusion, nor sheer multi-species affect can save the human from the mass extinction announced by the Anthropocene–and it is coming at us at full speed.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
subject: Gender dysphoria
  topic: keywords
subject: extinction
  topic: keywords
subject: Iberian Studies
  topic: keywords
subject: Infrapolitics
  topic: keywords
subject: cinema
  topic: keywords
subject: Iberian Studies
  topic: subjects
creator: Pedro Aguilera-Mellado
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6107

“The Indefensible Story” by Edgardo Cozarinsky
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description: “El relato indefendible” was originally published in 1973 and included in Museo del chisme (2005) and Nuevo museo del chisme (2013). Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentine writer, critic, and filmmaker, was born in 1939 into a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant family. His career was marked by wide-ranging and impactful contributions to several fields. He studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and later collaborated with Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges. He founded a film criticism review, Flashback, and proceeded to direct a series of critically acclaimed feature films from Les Apprentis Sorciers (1977) to Ronda nocturna (2005), including … (1971) also known as Puntos suspensivos, his “most notorious work,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. During his time living in Paris and Buenos Aires, he wrote extensive collections of film criticism, short fiction, creative non-fiction, literary criticism, and novels. His Vudú urbano (1985), a hybrid literary-essayistic work, was prologued by Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Susan Sontag. In the 1970s, Cozarinsky received the best essay prize from the newspaper La Nación for his erudite and sprightly poststructuralist essay “El relato indefendible,” translated here. This essay—later included in Cozarinsky’s gossip anthologies Museo del chisme (2005) and Nuevo museo del chisme (2013)— theorizes the cultural practice of gossip, previously considered reprehensible and vulgar, unfolding and appreciating its participation in all literary practice, especially in the works of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Jorge Luis Borges. As Cozarinsky says, “In its circulation, in its modification, gossip reproduces the general movement of history and human knowledge, as well as the movement of that narrative practice that is a feature of that knowledge and a metaphor for that history.” Surviving a cancer diagnosis in the 1990s, Cozarinsky continued to write prolifically and to affectionately guide a generation of …
subject: In Translation
  topic: section
subject: Literary Theory
  topic: keywords
subject: Gossip
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin American Literature
  topic: disciplines
creator: Ernest Rafael Hartwell
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-31
publication date: 2024-12-31

La temporalidad de la deuda durante la Gran Recesión en la novela En la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes
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description: El presente ensayo ofrece un análisis interdisciplinario de la novela En la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes consagrada como la obra paradigmática de la Gran Recesión de 2008 en España. El artículo examina cómo el escritor valenciano desnaturaliza las formas de violencia adyacentes a la economía del crédito impulsada durante el ciclo de la burbuja inmobiliaria en el sureste de España. En sintonía con los argumentos de David Graeber, Walter Benjamin y Maurizzio Lazzarato sobre la historia y filosofía de la deuda, En la orilla retrata la intimidad del malestar social del capitalismo neoliberal contemporáneo develando las violencias que históricamente han acompañado a la deuda y el crédito en su interrelación con la esfera moral de la culpa y el pecado. El análisis literario muestra cómo la novela retrata los mecanismos de producción discursiva de la subjetividad de la deuda sometida por una experiencia temporal teológica de sacrificio. Concretamente, se señalan tres recursos literarios que visibilizan la temporalidad del endeudado cercenada por un futuro previamente delimitado: una composición no-teológica; la heterogeneidad de las voces narrativas; y un tono narrativo que se ha denominado obsceno. Esta interpretación de En la orilla también se apoya en las reflexiones de Corinne Maier y Jean-Luc Nancy sobre la alteridad y la mortalidad para reflexionar sobre las violencias que emergen cuando los trabajadores, obligados por la temporalidad de la deuda, son alienados de la posibilidad de experimentar su condición social y finita. En definitiva, se demostrará que el valor de la novela no es solo literario sino que además es político al ofrecer una experiencia estética de resistencia a la temporalidad teológica impuesta por la deuda.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rafael Chirbes
  topic: keywords
subject: crisis 2008
  topic: keywords
subject: En la orilla
  topic: keywords
subject: recesión
  topic: keywords
subject: España
  topic: keywords
subject: Deuda
  topic: keywords
subject: Gran recesión de 2008
  topic: subjects
subject: Literaturas ibéricas
  topic: disciplines
creator: Priscila Calatayud-Fernández
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6105

El once antes del once
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description: Hay muchas maneras de narrar, muchos modos de simbolizar, muchos modos de imaginar y sentir. Así debe ser. Yo he elegido, y me ha elegido, pensar mi espacio-tiempo como ciudadana latinoamericana a quien durante la infancia y adolescencia le tocó ver y vivenciar varias dictaduras latinoamericanas y sus procesos transicionales a las democracias.
subject: From the Trenches
  topic: section
creator: Voluspa Jarpa
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-21
publication date: 2024-12-21

Generar naciones: Yawar Mallku entre eugenesia y biopolítica
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description: En mi artículo analizo la película Yawar Mallku [Sangre de Cóndor, 1969] de Jorge Sanjinés desde el cruce entre los estudios de género y los estudios políticos-culturales que, pasando por cuestiones étnicas, se interrogan sobre la construcción del “cuerpo” nacional. El título de mi artículo, Generando naciones, es un juego de palabras que alude al hecho de que el proceso histórico-político de originar y construir naciones está siempre sobre-significado, y no sólo metaforicamente, por custiones de género, en la medida en que dicho proceso pasa por el control y el gobierno literal del cuerpo de la población, en particular del cuerpo femenino. Por lo tanto, leo Yawar Mallku a partir de una perspectiva biopolítica. Considerando las esterilizaciones como prácticas aparentemente opuestas al sueño del encholamiento, en la medida en que ambas tematizan el control físico y biológico de la población hacia la “desaparición del indio”. Bajo esta misma perspectiva podemos leer también la película posterior de Sanjinés La nación clandestina (1989) que trata la relación cuerpo-comunidad-nación y se interroga, con el personaje de Sebastián, sobre la construcción de la identidad nacional a partir de la lengua y del nombrarse, todas formas muy corporales de generar y regenerar identidades. En conclusión, podemos observar que Yawar Mallku desborda su particular momento histórico y abre a la posibilidad de reflexionar sobre el papel que la reglamentación del cuerpo juega en general en la construcción del discurso nacional y incluso en la llamada época postcolonial, donde sigue perpetrándose con otros medios que los bélicos una lógica expansionista y de guerra profundamente patriarcal, racista y (neo) colonial.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
creator: Michela Russo
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6084

Curepto es mi concepto. Reseña
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subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
creator: Javier Velasco
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6113

An Aesthetics of Resistance: Voluspa Jarpa’s Necroarchivos
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description: Voluspa Jarpa’s installation Judd Shaft (2016–present) exposes declassified documents from the CIA to create what I term “necroarchivos.” Defined as contemporary artworks that highlight information previously lost, hidden, or manipulated, the necroarchivos resist “necropolitics,” or what Achille Mbembe defines as a politics of life and death; to present fragmented narratives, question official rhetoric, and (re)create histories, while advocating for collective memories. Under this conceptual framework, the artwork not only reveals violence but condemns aggressions against bodies and challenges their expendability. Against the current proliferation of authoritarianism and dictatorial regimes, art plays a critical role in alerting viewers of the tragic consequences of repressive governments. The artwork becomes a departure point to challenging the political and social sphere, create consciousness, and incite civic engagement. By conducting direct object study, interviewing the artist, and incorporating an interdisciplinary methodology, I map Jarpa’s aesthetics of resistance and her dialogue with archival art and a constellation of artworks to present the (in)accessibility of information and contest myriad disciplinary fields including history, politics, and art itself. I argue Jarpa’s necroarchivos comment on the (in)visibility of diverse power structures and their secrecy, “la imposibilidad de la lectura,” to register a counter history and contest the violence of the state apparatus.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Voluspa Jarpa
  topic: keywords
subject: Ivan Navarro
  topic: keywords
subject: Patricio Vogel
  topic: keywords
subject: Necroarchivos
  topic: keywords
subject: Necropolitics
  topic: keywords
subject: Dan Flavin
  topic: keywords
subject: Donald Judd
  topic: keywords
subject: Art history
  topic: disciplines
subject: Latin American art
  topic: disciplines
subject: Modern and Contemporary Art
  topic: disciplines
subject: Contemporary art from Chile
  topic: disciplines
creator: Adriana Miramontes Olivas
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-02
publication date: 2024-12-02
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.1.6061

María Reimóndez. A casa do amo. Unha análise do discurso colonial e racista na literatura galega. Vigo: Edicións Xerais, 2024, 150 páginas. ISBN: 9788411104722
type: item
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
creator: Laura Lesta Garcia
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6110

Raúl Ruiz, Poetics Of Cinema And “Intentionality”: Unworking The Soul’s Standardization Against The Government Of The Living.
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description: In the 13th century in Europe, with a focus between the Andalusian world and the Catholic reaction in the peninsula and in Paris, a metaphysical battle took place over the determination of what the “soul” is.[1] A hermeneutical dispute over the concept of soul in Aristotle—the invention of the “Arab Aristotle” and the “European Aristotle”—that would be decisive for the history of the “West” (the Occident), but not as a “central conflict”, since such is the fantasy of the “West and its other”, so that we will have to clarify, in what follows, how else we understand here the nature of this cleavage. For the moment, we can say that in the metaphysical battle of the 13th century two “enemy” ways of understanding the soul clashed: 1) according to the falásifa Averroes, the soul is understood as the radical potentiality of immanent exposure of the finite animal to the imminence of the outside, to the world of forms in the being in common in the midst of the event that exceeds it, in a supernumerary logic of being in the world and knowledge; and, in reaction to such a “doctrine,” 2) according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, the soul is understood as the personal unity and “form of the body” of the animal—a body subjected to the form (law, word, image, “mask”) that turns it into a persona—whose unity depends on the unity of the world as the order of words and things and events—a unitary order guaranteed by a theological author and meta-reader in pure act—and on the insemination of that order in the perceptive, intellectual and practical soul.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
creator: Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6108

Un escenario de guerra: La frontera en postales y películas de la Revolución mexicana
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description: Durante la revolución mexicana, la reproducción de imágenes se masificó y diversificó en múltiples formatos, tales como la producción de tarjetas postales y el registro fílmico. En el siguiente artículo, abordo imágenes de ejecuciones, cadáveres, y campos de refugiados en tal contexto, problematizando la exposición de la historia como catástrofe a través de la fotografía y el cine. Para ello, considero tales imágenes de acuerdo con los aportes teóricos de la infrapolítica para problematizar el tiempo, la imagen y la historia. A través de un enfoque infrapolítico, considero cómo estas imágenes exhiben el horror de la guerra en la frontera y son memoria de la ruina y la catástrofe, observando las postales y las películas a contrapelo del blanqueamiento y la representación monumental del pasado. Para ello, abordo dos casos. Primero, las postales asociadas a la Expedición Punitiva contra Pancho Villa entre 1916-17, principalmente atribuidas al fotógrafo Walter Horne, co-fundador de la Mexican Photo War Company en El Paso. Segundo, el registro en imágenes en movimiento producido por la Mutual Film Corporation en el norte de México a comienzos de 1914.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
subject: Fotografía y film, Infrapolítica, Revolución Mexicana, Expedición Punitiva.
  topic: keywords
creator: Juan Leal Ugalde
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6090

Total Mobilization: Stasis, Infrapolitics, and Contemporary Temporalization in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Güeros
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description: Alonso Ruizpalacios’s 2014 cinematographic debut Güeros is a nostalgic coming-of-age that engages with the golden age of Mexican cinema, emblematic spaces of Mexico City, and the student-led strike of 1999 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) against its privatization. By examining the film’s depiction of another iteration of the historical Mexican student movement, this article analyzes the notion of movement, which is key for cinema (as the idea of moving image suggests), as well as Mexican political culture ensuing 1968 and Western political thought. This project points to how political movement, usually associated with the creation of political antagonisms, public protest, and the construction of a popular subject, is analogous to what thinkers like Ernst Jünger and Gil Andijar have referred to as “Total Mobilization” (Mobilmachung) and “political hematology,” respectively. These perspectives argue that, during modernity, there is a rising biopolitical mobilization by which every aspect of subjectivity is turned to an increasingly accelerating war and/or productive effort. This article shows that in spite of the film’s sympathy for the UNAM’s strike, the film’s alternation between personal, political, and narrative planes questions the notion of movement as the foundation for militancy and social change against neoliberal reform and whether these have been subsumed by the ever-increasing forces of spectacular capitalism. From an infrapolitical perspective, this article argues that faced with the increasing compulsion of the mediatized markets and identitarian politics to engulf every aspect of life and the subject, Güeros meditates on the exhaustion of movement. On the contrary, this piece argues that the film posits the existence of something yet to be thought about and that emerges from the crevices of that which cannot be reduced, or better said, mobilized, by the market or politics.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
creator: José Luis Suárez Morales
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6096

An-archē-ism in Caballos salvajes
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description: Marcelo Piñeyro’s 1995 film Caballos salvajes chronicles the five-day journey of two fugitives, José and Pedro, from Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires to the nation’s southern region after a holdup gone awry. The two runaways – Pedro, a young employee originally held up by José, an aging anarchist – develop an unlikely friendship. Thanks to intense media interest, José and Pedro become national heroes, understood as modern day Robin Hood figures after giving the stolen money away to a community of recently laid off chemical plant workers. At a critical moment early in the film, Pedro incredulously asks José why he has turned the entire episode into a question of politics. José resolutely refuses this accusation, stopping the conversation to exit the car they are traveling in, circle it brusquely, and re-enter, scolding his young travel companion: “¿Cómo voy a hablar de política? No estoy hablando de política. Hablo del mundo en el que estás viviendo.” Taking this decisive scene as a starting point, I argue that what is at stake for José throughout the film is what Alberto Moreiras has termed “infrapolitics.” Moreiras has described infrapolitics as “la diferencia absoluta entre vida y política,” arguing for a theoretical stance which acknowledges that politics does not (indeed, cannot) exhaust life itself. I will argue that the film offers us the notion that, while politics does mark many aspects of life, there remains a level of experience that cannot be subsumed under any sort of calculative political logic. Caballos salvajes therefore posits a version of José’s anarchist politics that is an-archē-ic, an anarchism that sidesteps anarchism’s paradoxical principal of non-foundation.
subject: Dossier Film and Infrapolitics
  topic: section
subject: anarchism
  topic: keywords
subject: heist film
  topic: keywords
subject: infrapolitics
  topic: keywords
creator: Daniel Runnels
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2025 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-12-20
publication date: 2025-12-20
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.2.6095

El puente
type: item
subject: Escritura Creativa
  topic: section
creator: Erich Tang
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History
date: 2024-10-19
publication date: 2024-10-19

Charlie D. Hankin. Break and Flow: Hip-Hop Poetics in the Americas. New World Studies. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023. x, 276 pp.
type: item
description: Book Review..N/A
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
creator: Matt Yuknas
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History
date: 2024-09-04
publication date: 2024-09-04

Book review. Ana Fernández Cebrián. Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967).
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: Book review Fables of Development Ana Fernández Cebrián
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural Studies
  topic: disciplines
subject: Film Studies
  topic: disciplines
subject: Anthropology
  topic: disciplines
creator: Benita Sampedro Vizcaya
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18

Keep the Silence from Speaking Poetry by Hubert Matiúwàa and Martín Tonalmeyotl as Ritual Responses to Drug Violence
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description: This article argues that recent poetry collections by two poets from the Mexican state of Guerrero, the Mè’phàà poet Hubert Matiúwàa’s (1986) and the Nahua poet Martín Tonalmeyotl (1983) respond to the violence of the ongoing drug war in México by mobilizing Indigenous ritual textualities. In doing so, both Matiúwàa’s Xtámbaa/Piel de Tierra (2016), literally “earthen skin,” and Tonalmeyotl’s Tlalkatsajtsilistle/ Ritual de los olvidados (2016) leverage Indigenous epistemological practices as a way to alter reality. This analysis not only aligns their respective projects with longstanding Indigenous language practices in Mesoamerica and elsewhere, but also situates them within broader contemporary Indigenous movements, in which Indigenous authors use their ostensibly literary texts to intervene directly in the world of the reader.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Mexican Poetry
  topic: subjects
subject: Indigenous Poetry
  topic: subjects
subject: Indigenous Textualities
  topic: subjects
subject: Indigenous Literature
  topic: disciplines
subject: Mexican Literature
  topic: disciplines
subject: Native American Literature
  topic: disciplines
creator: Paul Worley
creator: Sarah Blanton
creator: Whitney Devos
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2023 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-06-30
publication date: 2024-06-30
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.1.5834

Un libro escrito entre ruinas: Risking a Sumersault in the Air de Margarett Randall
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description: La poesía es una gran aliada en tiempos de Revolución. Esa podría ser una forma de definir el espíritu de Risking a Sumersault in the Air. Conversation with Nicaraguan Writers de la ya legendaria poeta feminista y activista social Margarett Randall. Se trata de una reedición revisitada (la primera es de 1984 por Burstone Press) que compila una serie de entrevistas a grandes figuras de la literatura y cultura nicaragüense. Todos estos, partícipes junto al Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, en el establecimiento de un nuevo gobierno tras la dictadura de Somoza. Entre dichas voces se encuentran sólidas figuras de la literatura latinoamericana, como Ernesto Cardenal, Gioconda Belli, Sergio Ramírez, Daysi Zamora, Tomás Borge, entre otros.
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
creator: Miguel Antonio Guevara
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria
date: 2024-06-02
publication date: 2024-06-02

Vincular palabra y la realidad: un trabajo por hacer
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description: Esta es una reseña de la novela ecuatoguineana La Bastarda de Trifonía Melibea Obono publicada por la editorial Flores Raras en el 2016. La reseña incluye comentarios relacionados con el contenido, el estilo y el mérito de la obra como ejemplo de literatura feminista y en defensa de los derechos humanos a la diversidad de género. En esencia argumenta que la novela es una llamada de atención sobre la relación entre las palabras y la realidad subrayando la necesidad de reconocer y nombrar la homosexualidad en la cultura fang para otorgar el respecto y dignidad social (y eventualmente legal) a la diversidad de género. Además la reseña señala algunas perspectivas sobre el debate existente acerca de la indigeneidad de la homosexualidad en el contexto africano postcolonial.
subject: Reviews/Reseñas
  topic: section
subject: género
  topic: keywords
subject: feminismo
  topic: keywords
subject: autoras ecuato
  topic: keywords
subject: literatura ecuatoguineana
  topic: keywords
subject: hispanofonía global
  topic: keywords
creator: Irene Villaescusa Illán
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2024 Periphērica: Revista de Historia Social, Cultural, y Literaria
date: 2024-06-02
publication date: 2024-06-02

A la escucha de la contrahistoria desde las cloacas: Un asesino solitario de Élmer Mendoza
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description: El asesinato del Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta en 1994 ha sido probablemente uno de los mayores secretos bajo resguardo del Estado mexicano. Esto ha motivado la creación de una serie de versiones alternas que buscan oponerse a una de las principales funciones de la secrecía oficial: evitar que el Estado sea concebido como la máscara del verdadero poder organizado (Abrams). En este conflicto de narrativas, la literatura tendría un lugar especial, pues no aspira a convertirse en la Historia, sino a fragmentar ese discurso monolítico en otras historias (Piglia). Del ejercicio literario de Élmer Mendoza en Un asesino solitario (1999) se desprende el uso del rumor como contranarrativa. Esta novela entrega una versión paralela a la oficial desde el plano de lo ficcional, al tiempo que busca obtener una toma del último eslabón de la cadena en el ejercicio del poder político que echa mano de medios criminales para asegurar su prevalencia (Domínguez-Ruvalcaba): un asesino a sueldo movido por la maquinaria del Estado. El presente trabajo acentúa la necesidad de comprender la novela a partir de tres deslindes: en primer lugar, apartarla de la etiqueta de lo “narco” que ha acompañado a su autor, pues su obra presenta un quiebre importante a partir de sus primeras dos novelas (Zavala); en segundo lugar, reconocer el desmarque de su propio género en tanto novela negra (Giardinelli) y, finalmente, su alejamiento del discurso oficial a partir del análisis de la propia narrativa del Estado en el informe de la investigación emitido por la extinta pgr.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Élmer Mendoza
  topic: subjects
subject: Un asesino solitario
  topic: subjects
subject: caso Colosio
  topic: subjects
subject: contrahistoria
  topic: subjects
subject: verdad histórica
  topic: subjects
subject: Mexican Studies
  topic: disciplines
subject: Latin American Studies
  topic: disciplines
subject: Cultural Studies
  topic: disciplines
subject: Literary Criticism
  topic: disciplines
creator: Armando Escobar G
rights: Egile-eskubideak 2023 Periphērica: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-06-01
publication date: 2024-06-01
doi: 10.7264/peripherica.3.1.5832