In what Beatriz Sarlo calls six "episodes," ranging from the proto–science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto Arlt through the development of mass media, tales of inventors and inventions, and an entertaining tour of "weird science" and medical quackery, The Technical Imagination examines how technology entered the popular imagination in 1920s and 1930s Argentina. Often wry, but always sympathetic, and dispensing erudition with a light touch, Sarlo shows how the products of modern technology (radio, the telephone and telegraph, movies, and rudimentary forays into television, among other phenomena) announced an unprecedented break with the past while also provoking an ironic recrudescence of age-old superstitions. Although the new technologies helped to shape notions of modernity at all levels of Argentine society, Sarlo focuses particularly on the working-class amateur inventors of Buenos Aires, and on how their inventions―even when they failed, as they frequently did―point to what can be recognized today as the reorganization of an intellectual hierarchy, and thus of an era's, and a culture's, intellectual history.

The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams (Writing Science)

History

SARLO, BEATRIZ

Americas

Stanford University Press

The selections included in this anthology centre on three major aspects of women's writing: reflections on writing and its relation to the public self, the figuration of a female textual identity, and women as agents of history and ideology. The material is drawn from a wide range of sources, including fiction and poetry, excerpts from the testimonial writing of peasant women, labour and social activists and women writing about literature and the craft of writing.

Women's Writing In Latin America: An Anthology

Literature & Fiction

MOLLOY, SYLVIA

Castro-Klaren, Sara

Literary

Westview Press

Scenes From Postmodern Life (Volume 7) (Cultural Studies of the Americas)

In this bracing book by one of Latin America's foremost intellectuals, Beatriz Sarlo offers a remarkably clear, forthright, and forceful statement of what precisely cultural criticism is and might be in our age of manic consumption, commercialization, popularization, and mass marketing. As postmodernity and late capitalism reinvent culture and society, social and cultural critique must also be reinvented-and in Scenes from Postmodern Life Sarlo aims to show how this might be done. Her readings of cultural practices such as television zapping, playing video games, or trawling the shopping mall; her vignettes of traditional intellectuals and practitioners of high art; her discussions of popular culture and the dissolution of social identities: these, as well as Sarlo's own writerly stance, go a considerable way toward developing the role of thinking in global times. Taking full advantage of the fact that her native Argentina is both fully part of global culture and yet in some ways on its periphery, Sarlo shows how an off-center or decentered perspective can bring the political consequences of the culture industry into sharp relief. As an introduction to a preeminent Latin American thinker, as a challenge to intellectuals to rethink and revitalize their critical positions, and as an instructive engagement with the politics of global culture, this book will be essential-and electrifying-reading for anyone concerned about the prospects for critical thinking in the new millennium. Beatriz Sarlo is among the foremost Latin American literary and cultural critics. She works in Buenos Aires but has also taught at Columbia, Maryland, Berkeley, and Cambridge, and has lectured and published widely. Sarlo is the cofounder of the journal Punto de Vista and the author of many books, including Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge. Jon Beasley-Murray lectures in Latin American studies at the University of Manchester. Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 7

Univ. of Minnesota Press

In this bracing book by one of Latin America's foremost intellectuals, Beatriz Sarlo offers a remarkably clear, forthright, and forceful statement of what precisely cultural criticism is and might be in our age of manic consumption, commercialization, popularization, and mass marketing. 
As postmodernity and late capitalism reinvent culture and society, social and cultural critique must also be reinvented-and in Scenes from Postmodern Life Sarlo aims to show how this might be done. Her readings of cultural practices such as television zapping, playing video games, or trawling the shopping mall; her vignettes of traditional intellectuals and practitioners of high art; her discussions of popular culture and the dissolution of social identities: these, as well as Sarlo's own writerly stance, go a considerable way toward developing the role of thinking in global times. Taking full advantage of the fact that her native Argentina is both fully part of global culture and yet in some ways on its periphery, Sarlo shows how an off-center or decentered perspective can bring the political consequences of the culture industry into sharp relief. 
As an introduction to a preeminent Latin American thinker, as a challenge to intellectuals to rethink and revitalize their critical positions, and as an instructive engagement with the politics of global culture, this book will be essential-and electrifying-reading for anyone concerned about the prospects for critical thinking in the new millennium. 
Beatriz Sarlo is among the foremost Latin American literary and cultural critics. She works in Buenos Aires but has also taught at Columbia, Maryland, Berkeley, and Cambridge, and has lectured and published widely. Sarlo is the cofounder of the journal Punto de Vista and the author of many books, including Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge. 
Jon Beasley-Murray lectures in Latin American studies at the University of Manchester. 
Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 7

Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is Argentinian is rarely discussed, as if his international reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality. In this brilliant introduction to his work, Sarlo challenges these “universalist” readings, arguing that they leave aside vital aspects of Borges’ writing, including his powerful vision of Argentina’s past and its traditions, which placed both the writer and his country at the intersection of European and Latin American culture.

Jorge Luis Borges : A Writer on the Edge (Critical Studies in Latin American Culture)

History & Criticism

Verso

Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is Argentinian is rarely discussed, as if his international reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality. In this brilliant introduction to his work, Sarlo challenges these “universalist” readings, arguing that they leave aside vital aspects of Borges’ writing, including his powerful vision of Argentina’s past and its traditions, which placed both the writer and his country at the intersection of European and Latin American culture.

Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge (Critical Studies in Latin American Culture)

Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge (Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Culture)

Borges: Un escritor en las orillas

Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A.

Sarlo expone algunos aspectos de la vida y obra de Walter Benjamin para imbricarlos en el pensamiento contemporáneo. Se ocupa tanto de la huida de Walter Benjamin del régimen nazi y su suicidio en la frontera, como de su resistencia a los requisitos académicos. A partir de un método compositivo, de una elección y uso atípicos de los materiales, y de la relación entre crítica de arte y filosofía, Sarlo propone leer a este estudioso alemán.

Siete ensayos sobre Walter Benjamin (Spanish Edition)

United States

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams (Writing Science)

Women's Writing In Latin America: An Anthology

Women's Writing In Latin America: An Anthology

Scenes From Postmodern Life (Volume 7) (Cultural Studies of the Americas)

Scenes From Postmodern Life (Volume 7) (Cultural Studies of the Americas)

Jorge Luis Borges : A Writer on the Edge (Critical Studies in Latin American Culture)

Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge (Critical Studies in Latin American Culture)

Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge (Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Culture)

Borges: Un escritor en las orillas

Siete ensayos sobre Walter Benjamin (Spanish Edition)