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Pandemonio 2021 – Videos

May 13, 2021 by JLACS

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How can we think together about the work of cultural studies in times of pandemic? Has Covid-19 upended our research agendas, or has it transformed the ways in which we think about culture, coloniality, empire, mediality, race, queerness, and aesthetics?

For more than two decades, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies conferences have showcased new work in the field, first in the form of annual one-day events at Birkbeck College, London, and more recently as multi-day events hosted, among others, by the University of Texas, Austin, UNAM (Ciudad de México), the University of Zurich and Oxford University. This year’s edition, scheduled to take place at New York City, was cut short by the global health emergency, in which the city was an early hotspot.

In response, we’ve decided to turn the tables. Rather than inviting established and emergent scholars to share with us their ongoing research, this year we –the Journal’s editorial board– shared our own work with you, in a series of short, multimedia sessions including podcasts and live-streamed round-table discussions, as well as previews of audiovisual work. In each of the sessions, a team of two or three editors and guest editors of the Journal offered samples from their own research and discuss current areas of interest with scholars, activists and artists from Latin America, Europe and the US.

Below, you can access to the videos of the three conferences

Pandemonio 2021: Eroticized Bodies and Politicized Desires
In recent years, there has been a significant expansion of studies around (post)pornograpy, experiences and activisms around sexual and gendered dissidence, and the intimacy and eroticization of mechanisms and representations of (postcolonial) power. In this vein, our panel seeks to rethink the obscene and its attendant libidinal politics as a conceptual space that activates the tensions between repulsion and seduction, pleasure and violence, the private and the public, and art and archiving. Some of the topics that this panel will address include: the role of techniques (of printing and dissemination); aesthetics and media in facilitating the merging of art and obscenity; the effects, echoes, and reverberations of archival interventions that center intimate materials and sexualized images of violence; the ethnopornographic construction of Otherness in cinematography, literature, and painting; and debates around the definition and performance of (post)porn in public spaces.

As part of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies online symposium series Pandemonio 2021, this panel interrogates the potentiality of obscenity and libidinal politics as a frame of questioning and activating forms of resistance. More concretely, the presentations will center on the interventions that problematize and undermine colonial practices of the subjection of bodies; heroic and monumental narratives around the construction of the Nation-state; and the intrinsic violence of the militarization of everyday life. The format of the panel will consist of, in the first place, a conversation uploaded to the Pandemonio website between Fernández-Galeano and Tortorici around their forthcoming special issue of JLACS, “Obscenity, Censorship, and Libidinal Politics in Latin America.” On March 12, 2021, each of the four panelists (Celleri, Franco, Ouedraogo, and Troconis) will present their respective multidisciplinary research on erotics and activism in literature, art, and performance (for approx. 10 min. each). These presentations will be followed by a 45-minute conversation among all the panelists and the organizers.
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