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El presente artículo pretende abrir un debate sobre las limitaciones que presupone fijar los slams poéticos como actos en los que su belicismo se subraya como el mayor aspecto definitorio y de mayor atracción para el público. Se analizarán artículos de prensa recientes y demás publicaciones para contraponerlos a un argumento en el que la posible competitividad de estos eventos poéticos se vincula a la audiencia que asiste a ellos, considerada ente esencial para el desarrollo de los slams. Todo ello se llevará a cabo con el apoyo de la escasa literatura que existe –pese a su enorme éxito– alrededor de los slams en España y de los estudios académicos sobre perfopoesía realizados en el mundo anglosajón, y se explorará el slam como actividad vinculada a la risa o a lo carnavalesco. Asimismo, el artículo pretende analizar su naturaleza de fenómeno social y literario, y explorar el impacto y las repercusiones que el gran éxito del poetry slam puede acarrear para la poesía española contemporánea. Lecturas del desierto: nuevas propuestas poéticas en España Presentación 7-14 Para un debate previo “El compromiso después del compromiso. Poesía, democracia y globalización (1980-2005) ” (Extracto) || Araceli Iravedra 39-55 Lecturas del desierto: nuevas propuestas poéticas en España “Antologuemos. Tendencias, inercias y derivas en las últimas antologías poéticas en la España contemporánea” || Raúl Molina Gil 57-109 “Nuevas formas de expresión en la lírica reciente: el lenguaje literario y la ruptura del horizonte de expectativas” || José Ángel Baños Saldaña 111-126 “No existen mapas para estos territorios: Rubén Martín (Díaz) y la topografía estética de la poesía española reciente” || Paul Cahill 127-144 “Sobre una “poesía que se piensa en el lenguaje”. ¿Hacia una nueva vanguardia en la poesía española? ” || Mario Martín Gijón 145-162 “ (Pa)labra[r] (en) el texto. Lector/autor en la poesía rupturista de Mario Martín Gijón” || Ewa Śmiłek 163-178 “’La alegre libertad en la catástrofe’: tensiones entre lenguaje y verdad en la poesía española joven (2011-2018) ” || Álvaro López Fernández 179-203 “A favor no es en contra; en contra es a favor. Poesía y comunicación en la actualidad” || Pablo López-Carballo || 205-220 “Lenguaje y poder en la poesía de María Salgado y de Ángela Segovia” || Guillermo Molina Morales 221-238 “¿De lo bélico a lo poético? El Poetry slam y su lucha feroz en defensa de la poesía” || Diana Cullell 239-257 “Primero el cuerpo y luego el libro: 'Voces del extremo. Antología (2012-2016)' o cómo continuar poniendo delante del capital otra imaginación política” || Ángela Martínez Fernández 259-287 “’Lugares que tienen una herida que sangra’: las geografías interiores de Fernando Valverde” || Laura Scarano 289-310 “Deixis, cuerpo e intemperie: la gramática del nuevo compromiso poético en Erika Martínez” || Javier Mohedano Ruano 311-330 “Atrapados en la red: los mundos virtuales en la poesía española reciente” || Luis Bagué Quílez 331-349 “Cuerpos, sexualidad e identidad femenina: la poesía de María Sánchez (1989), Luna Miguel (1990) y Elvira Sastre (1992) ” || Ana Cánovas 351-378 Anexo al monográfico “Lecturas del desierto. Antología y entrevistas sobre poesía actual en España” || Álvaro López Fernández, Ángela Martínez Fernández, Raúl Molina Gil

Este volumen nace con el propósito de producir conocimiento crítico sobre las prácticas poéticas en el espacio público, sus funciones y su eficacia dentro de éste. A la inestabilidad funcional de la poesía y lo lírico en la actualidad se une la noción de espacio público, entendida tanto desde su vertiente conceptual, filosófica y social, como desde su vertiente material, física, ligada a la (re)presentación escénica. Espacios, sujetos e instituciones se redefinen de la mano de esta combinación. Así, la inclusión de la espacialidad en una teoría poética actualizada, la constitución de nuevos sujetos y subjetividades y la identificación de públicos y prácticas en torno a los conceptos de performatividad e intervención constituyen los vectores fundamentales de este libro. Sin acotación de ningún tipo en términos lingüísticos, nacionales o interartísticos, los trabajos aquí recogidos se reparten entre lo teórico-crítico y metodológico, los estudios de caso y las reflexiones en primera persona, teniendo como objetivo último la valoración de la incidencia de la poesía en el espacio público y sus efectos socio-políticos.

Para começar a falar de “contaminações”, vou relatar uma viagem e uma performance que realizei. No dia 22 de junho de 2007, contrariando todos os conselhos de amigos, médicos e parentes, peguei um avião de Paris para Kiev, na Ucrânia, e de lá parti de carro, com um guia e mais duas pessoas, para Pripyat, a cidade fantasma onde houve em 1986 a famosa catástrofe de Chernobyl. Era uma viagem cheia de riscos, claro. Na cidade, a mais afetada pelo acidente, não se pode morar, não se pode comer, não se pode ficar muito tempo. Ali estávamos expostos a uma média de 130 microroentgens por hora de radiação gama, proveniente do césio que paira no local. Isso nos permitiria ficar, no máximo, duas horas. Ficamos quase seis. Apesar de não ser uma cidade propria mente turística, a arquitetura uniforme, remanescente do antigo bloco comunista, os edifícios em ruínas e de arestas enferrujadas, os objetos contaminados, deixados pelos mora dores há vinte anos, as ruas invadidas pelo mato causavam um estranho fascínio. Em determinado momento, avisei que eu precisaria me afastar do grupo e, diante do Palácio da Cultura, bem no centro da cidade, realizei a primeira (e provavelmente única edição da) Conferência poético-radioativa de Pripyat. A conferência contava com abertura solene, leitura de poemas meus e de Paul Dehn “poeta que escreveu sobre e sob a era atômica” e com o “abandono” de alguns livros no lugar. Ali, na solidão daquela conferência de um homem só, a milhares de quilômetros de qualquer coisa familiar, circundado pelo silêncio do fim do mundo, eu fazia, ainda que sem saber, um hino às contaminações, além, claro, de me contaminar, tornando-me, provavelmente, o primeiro poeta radioativo do mundo. Sim, haviam me alertado do risco de desenvolver um câncer ou gerar um filho anormal. Mas pergunto: não faria isso também parte da performance?

En 1990, Llorenç Barber explicaba nun programa de televisión, Sitio Distinto, como todos os seres humanos levamos un campanario na nosa memoria. O conxunto de badaladas que se produce no noso sistema neuronal e social fai que a vida teña sentido, que teña musicalidade. Porén, o conxunto de badaladas poden derivar nun ruído que deriva en confusión. Isto mesmo é extensible na hora de realizar exercicios memorísticos. Ás veces é o ruído o que non nos permite chegar a un produto que non figura no canon ou tamén nos imposibilita a manexar coa maior autonomía conceptos, ideas ou textos dende os postulados que os orixinan. Isto último é o que pretendemos acometer neste artigo. Escollemos facer memoria dun pasado moi próximo, pero á vez moi afastado por descoñecemento. Para tal finalidade, focalizamos un produto pluridisciplinario: o programa Sitio Distinto, dirixido por Antón Reixa e emitido pola Televisión de Galicia (TVG) en 1990. Con el, contemplamos atinxir dous obxectivos. O primeiro é o de describir e dar a coñecer un produto cultural que define un habitus (Bourdieu, 1992) que se desenvolveu na praxe artística do campo entre a Transición política do franquismo á democracia e o seu asentamento nos anos oitenta.

Los estudios sobre performance han proliferado de manera excepcional a lo largo de las últimas décadas alentados por el “giro corporal” de las ciencias sociales. A las investigaciones antropológicas y sociológicas se le suma la llamada de atención que desde la teoría del arte se desarrolla a razón de las correspondencias y antagonismos de la acción creativa en los espacios públicos. En esta estela discursiva se imbrican experiencias que se soportan a través de lo corporal, resignificándolo y operando como un nuevo modo de autorreconomiento individual y colectivo. Este artículo trata de proponer una mirada reflexiva hacia el espectro de éstos estudios a través de las experiencias que el artista Nel Amaro ha desarrollado a fin de visibilizar y señalizar cómo las prácticas estéticas intervienen en lo común, en los modos de hacer y habitar.

La performance poética que Batato Barea realizó en la presentación de la galería del Rojas, en 1989, para inaugurar la muestra de Liliana Maresca Lo que el viento se llevó colocó en primer plano aquello que Mladen Dolar (2007) denominó como “política de la voz”. El uso paródico que hizo el clown-travesti-literario respecto de la historia de la declamación de poesía estableció diferentes modos de fuga de aquella corporalidad rígida, proveniente de los procesos de homogeneización de la lengua de comienzos del siglo XX y reiterada como emblema del disciplinamiento de los cuerpos durante el período dictatorial. El poema recitado, -“Sombra de conchas” de Alejandro Urdapilleta- y la performance de Batato Barea hacían entrar, a través del repertorio gestual histórico de la declamación de poesía, nuevos posicionamientos sobre la subjetividad, teniendo como horizonte la puesta en primer plano de la teatralidad en distintas artes durante la posdictadura argentina. Paralelamente, junto a la escucha de esta voz paródica, puede rastrearse, en las performances del clown y del grupo Las coperas, un registro ambivalente, que absorbía los tonos imaginarios que la literatura ya había volcado sobre sí para ese entonces.

This study presents an analysis of the appropriation of public space by cultural producers in Cuba, with a focus on art collectives, in particular, OMNI Zona Franca from Alamar, east of Havana. Based on primary research conducted with the artists, cultural producers, and scholars, I discuss OMNI’s work in the context of the history and formation of a nascent movement for civil society in Cuba, locating the collective’s work within the matrix of alternative and African diasporic cultural production. The latter is framed as part of a historical continuum and in the context of the discussion of race that emerged in Cuba’s public sphere during the 1990s with a concurrent movement among black Cuban artists to address issues of race. Situating OMNI’s work in a longer history of Afro-Cuban cultural production in Cuba as well as within the history of art collectives this study demonstrates how OMNI’s participation in the public sphere relates to social practice, appropriation of space, alternativity, and the forging of a wide coalition of civil and artistic alternatives among diverse communities. I draw on discourses on the production of space, particularly those of Henri Lefebvre and Raymond Williams, and argue that the unique and specific history of Alamar provided a fertile ground for alternative culture where multiple and countercultural expressions could be incubated and take root. The struggle over public space and the attempts by artists to create an autonomous public sphere in Cuba have led to continual conflict with the state. Using Gramsci’s theorization of civil society as incorporating both the hegemonic and contestatory realms, I contend that the level of contestation in OMNI Zona Franca’s work should be seen as counter-hegemonic expression aimed at altering the status quo. Producing new social relations, the collective’s practice is offered as an example of how art and cultural production is inaugurating alternative counter-spaces in the context of a demand for a more inclusive and representative Revolutionary public sphere.

Una biblioteca con libros de historia, ilustraciones, colecciones de VHS, cartucheras de DVDs, compilaciones periodísticas, testimonios, revistas literarias, fotografías, grabaciones sonoras, filmes. Un exhibidor de objetos, disfraces, instrumentos musicales, muñecos. Solicitadas en diarios, invitaciones a eventos, reconstrucciones de espacios, mapas de ciudades, circuitos virtuales en 3D. La imaginación es capciosa, ya que aun cuando efectivamente la reproductibilidad técnica hubiera podido hacer una copia y un registro absoluto, la performance tampoco estaría allí. Su ausencia se distingue de la ruina; el acontecimiento no regresa, no simplemente porque haya pasado el tiempo, sino porque no estaba hech para perdurar.

The new digital and electronic media force us to redefine the contrasting notions of orality and literacy, which now move into cyberespace. These technologies are memory machines which help to preserve knowledge, and increase its productivity by means of multimedia codes capable of generating manipulable works which could not be accomplished by the classic media. Those works are often defined by their open and fragmentary nature, allowing interactive and open access, and teamwork in different locations. This article concentrates on digital poetry and its movement back to orality, subverting systematic, rule-bound, linear and ordered spaces in writing.

Este trabajo se propone señalar las prácticas de poesía ligadas a la performance y la teatralidad en la región del Río de la Plata durante los procesos de finalización de la dictadura y comienzos de la democracia, hacia finales del siglo XX. Menciona brevemente una historia del género y los problemas metodológicos que presenta la investigación. Desarrolla, además, la emergencia de formas de la teatralidad en las producciones artísticas y políticas de comienzos de 1980 en Argentina, período marcado por la transición democrática, para ubicar en este marco la producción del poeta y dramaturgo Emeterio Cerro.

During the twentieth century, two movements in Cuban art played a critical role in creating an expanded space for societal debate and cultural expression: the artistic avant-garde and the Afro-Cuban movement. Initially flourishing in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these collective efforts took on new forms in the changed environment after 1959. After the Revolution, conditions for cultural production changed with the official position that art should serve ideological functions, but both avant-garde and Afro-Cuban production continued, at the risk of conflict with the state. In the face of a restrictive state that sought to control such expressions, the Afro-Cuban movement and avant-garde art collectives developed along parallel, and sometimes intersecting, lines.

After centuries of symbolic and political oppression, Galicia has been recognized by the Spanish constitution as a historic nationality. However, despite a certain degree of political autonomy, Galician identity is threatened by increasing homogenization in the economic, social, cultural and linguistic fields. In the early 1990s the aesthetic movement Bravú constructed an aesthetic community, sustained by an ideological project, and with the aim to, on the one hand, prevent Galician culture from becoming folklore stuck in a time warp and, on the other hand, to validate Galician identity. The Bravú artists refused the historically inherited outsider position and contributed to a reinvention of Galician identity and of a political ideal within a cosmopolitan, internationalist framework and by reversing social stigmas through their works and performances.

Centred around Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony, this paper employs a critical globalisation theory framework to argue that the 1990s notion of ‘changing the world from below', understood as resistance to capitalist globalisation through a ‘transnational civil society', requires re-theorisation in the light of the contemporary developments in Our America. I make a methodological case for a neo-Gramscian approach to argue that ‘counter-hegemony', together with an adequate theorisation of the state and power, should be the preferred concept over the inherently apolitical and under-theorised ‘alter-globalisation'. Whilst the alter-globalisation movement's ideational and normative challenges to hegemony (captured in ex-British prime minister Thatcher's There-Is-No-Alternative-Doctrine, TINA) are undisputed, the transformation of the global geographies of power through local actors alone has remained illusory. Rather, the experience of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-PTA) strongly suggests that counter-hegemonic globalisation theory will have to consider the roles of both the ‘state-in-revolution' and the ‘transnational organised society'. This will be shown through the analysis and theorisation of the ALBA-PTA as a multi dimensional inter and transnational counter-hegemonic regionalisation and globalisation project that operates across a range of sectors and scales.

The concept of ‘resistance' has turned into a critical tool in different areas of political, philosophical and sociological thought. At the same time, the notion seems to be as productive as it is diffuse. ‘Resistance' is used in very specific contexts in scientific or technical disciplines, and with extreme flexibility in social and cultural studies. In the latter two areas, the concept is often used without prior reflection on its characteristics and limitations. In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze provides a possible framework for conceiving cultural and political practices of resistance as positions of force, when he defines contraction as ‘a contemplation that preserves the preceding in the following'. The purpose of this article is to understand political ecologism in its activist and poetical dimensions, in light of a Deleuzian interpretation of resistance.

Professionalization and political engagement are usually placed as incompatible in the case of journalism and the mainstream press, resulting in an identification of cultural resistance exclusively with alternative/amateur vehicles. I will use the concept of journalistic field as introduced by Pierre Bourdieu to review these assumptions and discuss a form of political resistance that acts in one's own area of knowledge, is not overtly political and whose effects are not immediately accountable for. Drawing examples from my research on two literary newspapers published in the 1950s in Brazil and Uruguay, this paper will focus on the implications of didacticism for literary criticism as a genre of newswriting. The analysis of these newspapers will lead to a reflection on two main issues: a) the conflict between the professionalization and democratization of literature; and b) the definition of resistance as necessarily an action that is against something. The article will reconsider education in journalism as a form of resistance, taking into account its risks of becoming political indoctrination and commercial manipulation, but emphasizing its potential as a way of expanding access to literature.

This article offers a pragmatic and relational analysis of the controversial heuristic of cultural resistance and presents some of the problems that affect the production and distribution of the poetic discourses of resistance and emancipation. To that end, it focuses on the incorporation of the historicity and the historic contingency of conflict as key elements of the subjectification constituted by the poem of resistance as “poem for the political”. It also explores the applicability of certain notions common to the contemporary critical tradition, as developed by scholars such as Badiou, Mouffe, Rancière, Bal and Žižek.

The poetic space, as I see it, is a space of resistance. Resistance against the media which do not need poetry. Communication among poets is a go-between, a web of messages, performances and presentations, the circulation of books and digital materials. These activities are political, functioning as politics in the Greek sense: discussion in a public arena, exchanges of opinion and criticism, interventions, concerted decisions, group projects, a net of relationships around the production of texts, articulating versions and diversions of language. These activities and exchanges give the participants a sense of fulfillment. In this sense to pass is to think, to question a certain regime, to marvel that it is still there, to wonder what makes it possible, going into its enclaves, looking for traces of the movements which formed it and discovering in those stories apparently in ashes, how to think, how to live otherwise.

In this article, I analyze the notions of sequentiality and simultaneity in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). I extrapolate this analysis to the contrasting epistemic sensibilities surrounding the concepts of ‘revolution' and ‘resistance' respectively. I am particularly concerned with the role these concepts play in contemporary academic production in the humanities. My aim is to understand the implications of the different conceptions of time and representation associated with each of those two concepts, and what their actual ideological operativity is in the context of the present status quo.