Speculative Fictions
Alessandro Fornazzar
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Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Speculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present. To Alessandro Fornazzari, the move to market capitalism effectively blurred the lines between economics and aesthetics, perhaps nowhere more evidently than in Chile.
Through exemplary works of film, literature, the visual arts, testimonials, and cultural theory, Fornazzari reveals the influence of economics over nearly every aspect of culture and society. Citing Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Willy Thayer, Milton Friedman, and others, Fornazzari forms the theoretical basis for his neoliberal transitional discourse as a logical progression ... Read more
Speculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present. To Alessandro Fornazzari, the move to market capitalism effectively blurred the lines between economics and aesthetics, perhaps nowhere more evidently than in Chile.
Through exemplary works of film, literature, the visual arts, testimonials, and cultural theory, Fornazzari reveals the influence of economics over nearly every aspect of culture and society. Citing Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Willy Thayer, Milton Friedman, and others, Fornazzari forms the theoretical basis for his neoliberal transitional discourse as a logical progression ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822962335
SKU
V9780822962335
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About Alessandro Fornazzar
Alessandro Fornazzari is associate professor of Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside.
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