Name: Accumulation and Subjectivity
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Author: Karen Benezra

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Karen Benezra

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Author

Karen Benezra

Language

English

Pages

344

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9781438487564

Synopsis "Accumulation and Subjectivity "

Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconceptualizing the relationship between political economy and the life of the subject. The fourteen essays in this volume show that, in order to understand the dynamics governing the extraction of wealth under contemporary capitalism, we also need to consider the collective subjects implied in this operation at an institutional, juridical, moral, and psychic level. More than merely setting the scene for social and political struggle, Accumulation and Subjectivity reveals Latin America to be a cauldron for thought for a critique of political economy and radical political change beyond its borders. Combining reflections on political philosophy, intellectual history, narrative, law, and film from the colonial period to the present, it provides a new conceptual vocabulary rooted in the material specificity of the region and, for this very reason, potentially translatable to other historical contexts. This collection will be of interest to scholars of Marxism, Latin American literary and cultural studies, and the intellectual history of the left.

Karen Benezra

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Karen Benezra es una historiadora del arte y curadora estadounidense, especializada en arte moderno y contemporáneo de América Latina, con énfasis en los cruces entre arte, diseño, política y procesos culturales del siglo XX. Su trabajo se caracteriza por una mirada crítica y rigurosa que desafía lecturas simplificadas del modernismo latinoamericano, atendiendo a contextos locales, redes intelectuales y estrategias experimentales. Benezra combina investigación académica con curaduría, moviéndose con soltura entre archivo, museo y reflexión teórica.

Es coeditora de Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America, 1960–1980, una obra clave que explora prácticas artísticas y de diseño alejadas del objeto tradicional, centradas en procesos, ideas y circulación cultural. El libro reúne ensayos que replantean la relación entre arte y diseño en la región, ampliando el canon desde una perspectiva histórica y política. Su aporte ha sido fundamental para complejizar el relato del arte latinoamericano, sin exotismos ni atajos cómodos.

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