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Chapter in The Utopian Impulse in Latin America, ed. Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos (New Yo... more Chapter in The Utopian Impulse in Latin America, ed. Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos (New York: Palgrave, 2011).
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Chapter from Spectatorship and Topophilia: Reading Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures,... more Chapter from Spectatorship and Topophilia: Reading Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures, ed. David R. Castillo and Bradley J. Nelson (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012).
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Luso-brazilian Review, 2006
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Modernism/modernity, 2005
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Journal of Architecture, 2008
Modernist architecture in Latin America was originally intended to propel the region into the ‘de... more Modernist architecture in Latin America was originally intended to propel the region into the ‘developed First World’. Meanwhile, modernist architecture in Anglo-America has often served to consolidate the political-economic power of the ‘First World’, especially in the age of globalisation. This essay examines the First/Third World divide through two historical ‘moments’ of modernism, beginning in Brazil and ending in California. Brazilian modernism reached its apex with the construction of Brasília (1955–1960), designed principally by two undisputed masters of Brazilian modernism, Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. The politico-economic ambitions of Brazil's modernist architecture, however, appear to have ended in failure. Rather than curing underdevelopment, modernism (and modernisation) may have exacerbated it. Yet for all modernism's failures, we should not assume that history has somehow left Brazil behind, as if Brazilian architecture were caught in some historical time-lag. In this essay I will test this notion by considering Richard Meier's Getty Center complex in Los Angeles. In projecting an ‘imperial’ power of globalisation onto Los Angeles, the Getty Center strives to create new meaning for its urban milieu. Yet in doing so it may be repeating problems manifest in Brasília.
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Cuadernos de Literatura 39 by Justin Read
La crítica política revolucionaria de Esteban Echeverría indudablemente se basa en el ideal liber... more La crítica política revolucionaria de Esteban Echeverría indudablemente se basa en el ideal liberal de sujetos racionales y cultos, quienes libremente eligen establecer lazos fraternales entre sí para formar un pueblo unitario y nacional. Sin embargo, este ideal nunca se materializa en los espacios de los mundos que Echeverría habita (sean éstos reales o ficticios). En lugar de solamente historizar al autor, el presente ensayo lee su obra desde el punto de vista geográfico del espacio y el lugar. Esta perspectiva revela un cuerpo de escrituras que, a pesar de centrarse en el sujeto liberal, ofrece un catálogo de diversas formas de la no-subjetividad. A contrapelo de las intenciones del autor, su obra inconscientemente permite la entrada a la capital de toda una inundación de fuerzas, tanto humanas como no humanas, en un momento clave en la formación del orden jurídico constitucional en la Argentina.
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