GEOPOLITICA Y APARATO LIBIDINAL DE LOS DISCURSOS RACCIONARIO Y LIBERAL: PARA UNA GENEAOLOGIA NO MODERNA DE LA OBRA DE MESONERO ROMANOS Y DONOSO CORTES

(…)This essay studies comparatively the work of Donoso Cortés and Spanish literary “costumbrismo”, which is a defining discourse for early 19th century Spanish liberalism. It attempts to show the discursive continuity between reactionary thought and liberal culture (…)(…)Este artículo se propone estudiar de manera comparativa la obra de Donoso Cortés y el costumbrismo literario español, discurso central y definidor de la cultura liberal de la primera mitad del siglo XIX español, para así demostrar la continuidad y conexión discursiva entre pensamiento reaccionario y cultural liberal (…

Galdós, Etxeita, Rizal - Madrid, Mundaka, Manila : on colonial disavowal and (post) imperial articulations of the hispanic pacific-atlantic

This article traces the articulation of "colonial disavowal" in the works of Pérez Galdós (Fortunata y Jacinta), José Manuel Etxeita (Josetxo) and José Rizal (Noli me tangere) in order to map out a Hispanic Atlantic-Pacific defined by the self-effacing quality of the Pacific space. The article centers on the Hispanic Pacific and its disavowal, as it is articulated through references to Manila in all three novels, in order to show how it is the central sight from which colonial disavowal can be studied in all three literary traditions while decentering and fragmenting any Spanish or Hispanist appropriation of Spanish imperialist history. The article concludes that a new global and post-Hispanist articulation of the Hispanic Pacific must be deployed in order to use its self-effacing character against nationalist realities such as the Spanish, the Filipino, or the Basque, so that a different trans-post-colonial history is written against the nationalist Hispanic/Hispanist grain

Antonio Banderas: Hispanic Gay Masculinities and the Global Mirror Stage (1991-2001)

Here I map out the Atlantic intertwining between neo-liberal/neo-imperial Spain and cinema by analyzing Antonio Banderas\u27s body politics as the postmodern (post- or neoimperialist) Don Juan. Banderas\u27s career trajectory from 1991 to 2001 coincides with larger political and historical developments. He arrived in Hollywood in the early 1990s, a moment when different but interconnected historical events came together— the end of the Cold War and the neo-liberal globalization of the United States with treaties such as NAFTA and GATT; the growing public profile of the fundamentalist religious right and gays; and the mainstream population\u27s (unwilling) acceptance of Latinos as a differentiated community. Hollywood needed a new kind of masculinity that gathered in all these new dimensions of United States identity while not completely shedding traditional Hollywood male typology, and Banderas fulfilled all the requirements. At the same time in Banderas Spain acquired a global card of presentation for its new neoimperialist and Atlantic pursuits in Latin America

Geobiopolitics of the Gothic: On the Queer/Inhuman Dislocation of Spanish/ English Subjects and Their Others (For A Definition of Modernity as an Imperialist Geobiopolitical Fracture)

The article contends that the inhumanity mobilized by the Gothic novel is not only biopolitical, as queer theorists of the Gothic novel argue (Halberstam, Haggerty), but also geopolitical: it is not only about indivi dual monsters or horrific characters but also about places and geographies of horror. By focusing on the location of the most important Gothic novels (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, Melmoth the Wanderer…), the article concludes that the southernEuropean characters and the technology of horror that they generate represent a space of past European imperialist decadence with which the British reader ultimately is made to dis/identify. By doing so, English Gothic novels disavow the imperialist past of southern Europe, and specially imperialist Spain, in order, precisely, to assert England’s own present identity as new empirehence the ultimately uncanny and unrepresentable nature of this horror. Con sequently, the Gothic novel announces a biopolitical and geopolitical fracture at the core of modernity –a fracture that is not only inhuman, but also posthuman, since the Gothic already argues for the impossibility of the human by invoking a geopolitical technology of horror. This break or crack of modernity, which the Gothic genre maps out not only biopolitically but also geopolitically, must be ultimately read as an inhuman and situated critique of European imperialism thus refashioning Stephen Arata’s dictum about the vampire novel as a narrative of reversed colonialism./n El artículo argumenta que la inhumanidad movilizada por la novela gótica no es solo biopolítica, como lo han defendido teóricos queer de dicho género (Halberstam, Haggerty), sino también geopolítica: no se trata solo de monstruos individuales o de caracteres de horror, sino también de lugares y geografía de horror. Centrándose en la localización de las novelas góticas más importantes (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, Melmoth the Wanderer…), el artículo concluye que los personajes sudeuropeos y la tecnología de horror que los mismos generan representan un espacio de decadencia imperialista pasada con la cual el/la lector/a británico/a se des/identifica. Así, las novelas góticas inglesas ignoran activamente el pasado imperialista de Europa del sur, y especial mente del imperialismo español, para afirmar la identidad presente de Inglaterra como nuevo imperio –de ahí la naturaleza amenazadora e irrepresentable de ese horror–. Consecuentemente, la novela gótica anuncia una fractura biopolítica y geopolítica en el centro de la modernidad –una fractura que no solo es inhumana, sino también posthumana, ya que lo gótico argumenta la imposibilidad de lo humano al invocar una tecnología geopolítica de horror–. Esta fractura o rotura de la modernidad, que el género gótico mapea no solo biopolíticamente sino también geopolíticamente, debe ser leída como una crítica inhumana y situada del impe rialismo europeo, actualizando así la definición de Stephen Arata sobre la novela de vampiros como una narrativa de colonialismo invertido

Global Subalternity, Exteriority, and Independence Day: Rethinking RadicalDemocracy and Biopolitics. Notes on Laclau- Mouffe and Hardt-Negri

El artículo analiza el trabajo de Laclau-Mouffe y Hardt-Negri, probablemente los teóricos más influyentes del postmarxismo. El objetivo es mostrar que su trabajo no explica la exterioridad de la subalternidad en la globalización y que, consecuentemente, no es es capaz de teorizar la dimensión geopolítica de la globalización. El artículo muestra que el trabajo de estos autores está todavía determinado por el marco epistemológico lingüístico del postestructuralismo (Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault) y, como resultado, sigue estando definido por la geopolítica del estado (post)imperialista europeo. El artículo discute la película Independence Day para probar que las propuestas teóricas de estos autores han sido previamente cooptadas y movilizadas por el neoliberalismo global

Global Subalternity, Exteriority, and Independence Day: Rethinking RadicalDemocracy and Biopolitics. Notes on Laclau- Mouffe and Hardt-Negri

El artículo analiza el trabajo de Laclau-Mouffe y Hardt-Negri, probablemente los teóricos más influyentes del postmarxismo. El objetivo es mostrar que su trabajo no explica la exterioridad de la subalternidad en la globalización y que, consecuentemente, no es es capaz de teorizar la dimensión geopolítica de la globalización. El artículo muestra que el trabajo de estos autores está todavía determinado por el marco epistemológico lingüístico del postestructuralismo (Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault) y, como resultado, sigue estando definido por la geopolítica del estado (post)imperialista europeo. El artículo discute la película Independence Day para probar que las propuestas teóricas de estos autores han sido previamente cooptadas y movilizadas por el neoliberalismo global

Postimperial Indifference, Fragmentation, and Nostalgia in Costumbrismo.

This article analyzes costumbrismo as the first literary genre to develop the notion of postimperial nostalgia in nineteenth-century Spain. The article argues that a postimperialist analysis of this literature can shed light on the rather, idiosyncratic history of nineteenth-century Spanish literature (literature of manners and historical novel > almost no realism > naturalism). It also establishes the bases for a more cultural and political understanding of nostalgia and modernity in Spain and the Hispanic Atlantic as well as the (postmodern) Global North, so that Spanish nationalism is redefined as an (in-different) postimperial discourse about colonial loss. More theoretically, the article aims at redefining nineteenth-century Spanish history in Lacanian terms by arguing that Spain as a nation is simply an imaginary formation of a symbolic order that is ultimately Atlantic and post/imperial, wherein the colonial loss points to the traumatic irruption of the Real

Geopolítica y aparato libidinal de los discursos reaccionario y liberal: Para una genealogía no moderna de la obra de Mesonero Romanos y Donoso Cortés

(…)Este artículo se propone estudiar de manera comparativa la obra de Donoso Cortés y el costumbrismo literario español, discurso central y definidor de la cultura liberal de la primera mitad del siglo XIX español, para así demostrar la continuidad y conexión discursiva entre pensamiento reaccionario y cultural liberal (…

Revisitando a experiência de cooperativismo de Mondragón a partir da perspectiva da ecossocioeconomia

Essa é uma história, em curso, que não deve ser confundida com uma mera trajetória exitosa de uma corporação de empresas cooperativas. Mondragón Corporação Cooperativa (MCC), sétimo maior grupo empresarial privado da Espanha, com mais de 100.000 trabalhadores e que atua em setores nos quais, geralmente, atuam empresas privadas ou públicas, deve ser visto sempre sob a perspectiva da economia social. Este artigo tem como objetivo resgatar os princípios considerados pelo idealizador da MCC, José María Arizmendiarrieta, que podem subsidiar as adaptações necessárias ao enfoque socioeconômico, transcritos nos 10 princípios da MCC, bem como as suas implicações ideológicas e práticas, considerando o paradigma da sustentabilidade, por meio do enfoque da ecossocioeconomia. Esta pesquisa valeu-se de observação participativa, com duração de três meses, na qual se vivenciou a experiência a partir de entrevistas, visitas e de dados secundários. A conclusão é que, atualmente, tal inspiração está debilitada diante do risco de um corporativismo cooperativo que deseja se autopreservar e da lógica de autorregulação do mercado. Contudo, a experiência mostra fôlego, com suas inovações inter e extraorganizacionais, com senso crítico e pragmatismo que superam a mera crítica, ante a ideologia que se tornou estéril, ao mesmo tempo em que preserva a inspiração do seu fundador