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Speculative Fictions
            
                Illuminations Cultural Formations of the Americas Paperback by Alessandro Fornazzari

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Speculative Fictions Illuminations Cultural Formations of the Americas Paperback

by Alessandro Fornazzari

"Speculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present.

Neoliberalism Culture Civilization Chilean literature
Author Alessandro Fornazzari
Published 2013
Format Book

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"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 of capitalism"--

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