LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM AT WASHU
ZOOM LECTURE SERIES ON LITERATURE AS COMMODITY
[Co-Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages ​​& Literatures; and  Journal of Hispanic Studies ].

In this presentation there will be a tour through examples of digital literatures where there is a work of programming the work, and by those that experiment with digital media, where the code language is not worked directly. On this occasion, the findings of the research project "cartography of Latin American digital literature" will be addressed. In the second part of this presentation, we will see how Latin American digital literature invites us to reflect on the place of technology in the region, the characteristics it acquires, the appropriations, interventions and “hacks” of established trends and forms. It challenges us regarding the forms of coloniality, not only of Western literature, which renews its forms in digital literature, but also with respect to a new narrative of progress related to the demands of dataification, digitization and the development and incorporation of Artificial Intelligence. Free technologies versus private technologies, technological universalisms versus diverse cosmotechnics, forms of technological coloniality and new colonialities on knowledge, are all themes that are somehow present in Latin American digital literature. 

Zoom lecture link:  https://wustl.zoom.us/j/93797566989?pwd=S2x6Z25HMmcxRzBRejhxNGlrZnZidz09#success

For more information, contact  Prof. Mabel Moraña