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Nudos y enredos : circuitos bárbaros y polémicas beligerantes en las revistas andinas de principios del siglo XX

Ortiz, Rodolfo

University of British Columbia

This dissertation is an investigation into the role of magazines in the early twentieth-century intellectual and cultural fields of the Andes. Based on the topology of knots and tangles, I look at the relationship between these magazines and this period's political and cultural transitions in the context of a questioning of the idea of an unviable modernity in the Andes. In a field of friction and entanglement, I analyze the formation of an “abigarrado” or motley zone and how magazines become a dispositif that crosses and undermines borders (and not only national borders), in favor of cultural multiplicity and segmentarity. From Gesta Bárbara (1918) in Potosí to Puno’s Boletín Titikaka (1926-1930), I examine how this dispositif operated in-between the literary and the political, in-between the visual field (both regional and cosmopolitan) and language, in-between insurgent movements (not only indigenous) and the nation-state… in short, in-between the aesthetic and political ideologies discussed and disputed in the interplay of avant-garde movements, political revolutions, and social transformations. I study the circuits of an intellectual barbarism that, through these magazines, (dis)articulates geopolitical paths. I also discuss the discursive heterogenization by which ideas are knotted as soon as their horizons become entangled or diluted. In this mechanism of varied velocities, I highlight the destituent power of an off-center and fugitive intellectuality embodied by Arturo Borda, Pablo Iturri Jurado, Óscar Cerruto, Eustaquio K'allata, Gamaliel Churata… a destituent power that pugnaciously escapes the political and cultural nets of its time.

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2022-04-20

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81256

Hispanic Studies

University of British Columbia

UBCV

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