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Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism, 2021
Brazil's open cities: Mimicry, sexuality and class dynamics in the urban landscape of 1960s cinem... more Brazil's open cities: Mimicry, sexuality and class dynamics in the urban landscape of 1960s cinema Bruce Williams 63 3 'Unreal city': The aesthetics of commitment in Pratidwandi and Interview Koel Banerjee 83 4 The Peruvian Kuntur group: A Marxist-Indigenist filmmaking practice Isabel Seguí 99 PART 2 Comparative readings 5 The legacy of the furnaces: The twenty-first century documentaries of Fernando Solanas Mariano Paz 121 6 Third Cinema after the turn of the millennium: Reification of the sign and the possibility of transformation Paulina Aroch Fugellie and André Dorcé 141 7 We have never been transnational: The female condition in socialist realism, postsocialism and Third Cinema Lucian Tion 163 vi CONTENTS PART 3 Third Cinema versus World Cinema 8 Dialogical encounters on the cinema of revolution: Save the Children Fund Film and Metalepsis in Black David Archibald and Finn Daniels-Yeomans 189 9 Newsreel Front: A revived vision of Third Cinema in Slovenia Andrej Šprah 213 10 Listening to the future: The film-philosophy of Abderrahmane Sissako William Brown 235 11 Class, gender and ethnicity in Alfonso Cuarón's Roma Ewa Mazierska 255 12 'After' or back to Third Cinema? Plebeian film, the national popular, fingernails and the resilient behemoth Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Toby Miller 273 Index 290 LIST OF FIGURES 1.1 Mourning the dove 36 1.2 Demo a la Rodchenko 46 1.3 American sailors chasing a Cuban woman 48 2.1 Norma Bengell and Gabriele Tinti in Night Games 73 2.2 Urban São Paulo following an evening of fun and games 73 2.3 Oduvaldo Vianna Filho and Isabella in The Dare 76 2.4 Ada's visit to the factory in The Dare 78 4.1 Meeting at the headquarters of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Agrarian Federation of Cusco (FARTAC). On the wall, portraits of Lenin and José Carlos Mariátegui, an influential Peruvian Marxist public intellectual 108 4.2 Newspaper publicity 'Laulico Wanted Dead or Alive' 110 4.3 In the banner, the three basic Inca moral principles, Ama Llulla, Ama Quella, Ama Sua (do not be a liar, do not be idle, do not be a thief) 112 6.1 Cameraman Leonardo Henricksen is shot by the military as he recorded the failed coup on Allende 151 6.2 Salvador Allende's broken glasses 154 6.3 Floating wagoner 156 7.1 Tian Hua in her first role as the white haired girl 169 7.2 Raquel Revuelta playing the first of the three Lucias 172
KARL MARX: el hombre, el revolucionario y el teórico, 2021
Papers by Paulina Aroch-Fugellie
African Studies, Apr 2, 2023
Africa’s portrayal in the hegemonic imagination has been subjected to critical analysis for many ... more Africa’s portrayal in the hegemonic imagination has been subjected to critical analysis for many decades. Three features stand out in my analysis. First, I focus on how that hegemonic imagination produces and correlates whiteness to progress through cigarette marketing. Second, I am concerned with the specifically neoliberal leveraging of the imaginary repertoire of classic European colonialism. Neoliberal colonialism repurposes old phantasmagoria according to its own modes of dominance and exploitation, engaging in a form of racialisation that is much more subtle but equally effective. Third, I use my own situated reading from elsewhere in the periphery to triangulate and break open the classic dichotomic opposition between Africa and the West. In supplanting the Africa/West dichotomy with a tripartite division of the world as analytical category, new ways in which the hegemonic idea of Africa benefits neoliberal colonialism surface. Working classes globally are driven to read their exploitation as a comparative privilege, while comprador elites are disciplined into cooperation and compliance. These ideas are investigated by means of visual analyses of tobacco ads in Africa. I focus on how youths are lured into global economic and semiotic value circuits to produce the spectacular and spectral normativity of a whitened global bourgeoisie.
Estudios de Asia y Africa, 2004
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](Kaleidoscope, 2009
she examines the epistemological and ideological implications of discourses in postcolonial theory.
Estudios de Asia y África, May 1, 2005
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), May 1, 2005
Cosmos and history: the journal of natural and social philosophy, Sep 10, 2010
MoveMent and the Paradox of resistance Paulina aroch fugellie abstract: in this article, i analyz... more MoveMent and the Paradox of resistance Paulina aroch fugellie abstract: in this article, i analyze the notions of sequentiality and simultaneity in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). i extrapolate this analysis to the contrasting epistemic sensibilities surrounding the concepts of 'revolution' and 'resistance' respectively. i am particularly concerned with the role these concepts play in contemporary academic production in the humanities. My aim is to understand the implications of the different conceptions of time and representation associated with each of those two concepts, and what their actual ideological operativity is in the context of the present status quo.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), May 1, 2004
BRILL eBooks, 2011
In this article I present a cultural analysis of “Democracy De-Realized” by postcolonial theorist... more In this article I present a cultural analysis of “Democracy De-Realized” by postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha. This lecture, running on RealPlayer software online, deals with questions of globalization and democracy. It was originally transmitted through live video from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Berlin, right after the events of September 11, 2001. I explore the ways in which the author relates to his position of enunciation and their effects in the context of the historical, technological, and immediate socio-institutional circumstances that make the broadcast of his lecture possible. I am particularly concerned with the contradictions between the performative and the discursive aspects of the lecture, and with the way the virtual environment of the transmission plays into that instability. I analyze how the modes of resistance to power that Bhabha proposes involve a displacement from the realm of the real to that of the virtual, and what his reiteratively deferred promise of connectivity implies. In order to bring about such an exploration, I recast Lacan’s concepts of metaphor and metonymy. In recurring to Lacan for an ideological critique of an instance of postcolonial discourse, I seek to exploit a potential in his work that is rarely considered of interest for political analyses
Nóesis: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2022
En este artículo reflexiono acerca de la importancia del pensamiento abductivo en procesos de rei... more En este artículo reflexiono acerca de la importancia del pensamiento abductivo en procesos de reinvención material y conceptual en el contexto de la actual crisis sanitaria. Inscrita en el cambio climático planetario, esta crisis sentaría las bases para una revolución semiótica. Por ello, interrogo el trabajo de Peirce sin perder consciencia de mi propio lugar y tiempo de interlocución. El COVID-19 trajo consigo una crisis de representación que, a diferencia de aquella que desencadenaron
Estudios de Asia y África, 2005
Open Cultural Studies, Nov 1, 2018
This article focuses on the interplay between correlated textual subject positions, insofar as th... more This article focuses on the interplay between correlated textual subject positions, insofar as they are differently legitimated across the New International Division of Labour (NIDL). In examining the academic system of referencing or invocation, I will pay particular attention to how it functions as a circuit of value production in the cultural domain. Marx's theory of value production will be used as an exegetic tool to locate the workings of economic power in the referential apparatus of the contemporary academy, showing how Third-World symbolic production is undervalued despite its existence, since economic conditions retroactively foreclose the validation of Third-World intellectual and artistic production as cultural capital. As a case study, I will analyse some of the citation strategies of postcolonial theorist Anthony Appiah in In My Father's House, which operates within the presupposition that textual subject positions (the place of enunciation in particular) are made available only to privileged subjects in the extra-textual world. Appiah's methodology opens up what I call a circumscribed redistribution of cultural capital across the NIDL. Hence, I take In My Father's House not only as an object of analysis but also as a critical source to understand how value production mediates academic writing, allowing Appiah's conceptualization of the relationship between textual and social subjects to inform my own.
Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism, 2021
Brazil's open cities: Mimicry, sexuality and class dynamics in the urban landscape of 1960s cinem... more Brazil's open cities: Mimicry, sexuality and class dynamics in the urban landscape of 1960s cinema Bruce Williams 63 3 'Unreal city': The aesthetics of commitment in Pratidwandi and Interview Koel Banerjee 83 4 The Peruvian Kuntur group: A Marxist-Indigenist filmmaking practice Isabel Seguí 99 PART 2 Comparative readings 5 The legacy of the furnaces: The twenty-first century documentaries of Fernando Solanas Mariano Paz 121 6 Third Cinema after the turn of the millennium: Reification of the sign and the possibility of transformation Paulina Aroch Fugellie and André Dorcé 141 7 We have never been transnational: The female condition in socialist realism, postsocialism and Third Cinema Lucian Tion 163 vi CONTENTS PART 3 Third Cinema versus World Cinema 8 Dialogical encounters on the cinema of revolution: Save the Children Fund Film and Metalepsis in Black David Archibald and Finn Daniels-Yeomans 189 9 Newsreel Front: A revived vision of Third Cinema in Slovenia Andrej Šprah 213 10 Listening to the future: The film-philosophy of Abderrahmane Sissako William Brown 235 11 Class, gender and ethnicity in Alfonso Cuarón's Roma Ewa Mazierska 255 12 'After' or back to Third Cinema? Plebeian film, the national popular, fingernails and the resilient behemoth Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Toby Miller 273 Index 290 LIST OF FIGURES 1.1 Mourning the dove 36 1.2 Demo a la Rodchenko 46 1.3 American sailors chasing a Cuban woman 48 2.1 Norma Bengell and Gabriele Tinti in Night Games 73 2.2 Urban São Paulo following an evening of fun and games 73 2.3 Oduvaldo Vianna Filho and Isabella in The Dare 76 2.4 Ada's visit to the factory in The Dare 78 4.1 Meeting at the headquarters of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Agrarian Federation of Cusco (FARTAC). On the wall, portraits of Lenin and José Carlos Mariátegui, an influential Peruvian Marxist public intellectual 108 4.2 Newspaper publicity 'Laulico Wanted Dead or Alive' 110 4.3 In the banner, the three basic Inca moral principles, Ama Llulla, Ama Quella, Ama Sua (do not be a liar, do not be idle, do not be a thief) 112 6.1 Cameraman Leonardo Henricksen is shot by the military as he recorded the failed coup on Allende 151 6.2 Salvador Allende's broken glasses 154 6.3 Floating wagoner 156 7.1 Tian Hua in her first role as the white haired girl 169 7.2 Raquel Revuelta playing the first of the three Lucias 172
KARL MARX: el hombre, el revolucionario y el teórico, 2021
African Studies, Apr 2, 2023
Africa’s portrayal in the hegemonic imagination has been subjected to critical analysis for many ... more Africa’s portrayal in the hegemonic imagination has been subjected to critical analysis for many decades. Three features stand out in my analysis. First, I focus on how that hegemonic imagination produces and correlates whiteness to progress through cigarette marketing. Second, I am concerned with the specifically neoliberal leveraging of the imaginary repertoire of classic European colonialism. Neoliberal colonialism repurposes old phantasmagoria according to its own modes of dominance and exploitation, engaging in a form of racialisation that is much more subtle but equally effective. Third, I use my own situated reading from elsewhere in the periphery to triangulate and break open the classic dichotomic opposition between Africa and the West. In supplanting the Africa/West dichotomy with a tripartite division of the world as analytical category, new ways in which the hegemonic idea of Africa benefits neoliberal colonialism surface. Working classes globally are driven to read their exploitation as a comparative privilege, while comprador elites are disciplined into cooperation and compliance. These ideas are investigated by means of visual analyses of tobacco ads in Africa. I focus on how youths are lured into global economic and semiotic value circuits to produce the spectacular and spectral normativity of a whitened global bourgeoisie.
Estudios de Asia y Africa, 2004
Kaleidoscope, 2009
she examines the epistemological and ideological implications of discourses in postcolonial theory.
Estudios de Asia y África, May 1, 2005
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), May 1, 2005
Cosmos and history: the journal of natural and social philosophy, Sep 10, 2010
MoveMent and the Paradox of resistance Paulina aroch fugellie abstract: in this article, i analyz... more MoveMent and the Paradox of resistance Paulina aroch fugellie abstract: in this article, i analyze the notions of sequentiality and simultaneity in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). i extrapolate this analysis to the contrasting epistemic sensibilities surrounding the concepts of 'revolution' and 'resistance' respectively. i am particularly concerned with the role these concepts play in contemporary academic production in the humanities. My aim is to understand the implications of the different conceptions of time and representation associated with each of those two concepts, and what their actual ideological operativity is in the context of the present status quo.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), May 1, 2004
BRILL eBooks, 2011
In this article I present a cultural analysis of “Democracy De-Realized” by postcolonial theorist... more In this article I present a cultural analysis of “Democracy De-Realized” by postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha. This lecture, running on RealPlayer software online, deals with questions of globalization and democracy. It was originally transmitted through live video from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Berlin, right after the events of September 11, 2001. I explore the ways in which the author relates to his position of enunciation and their effects in the context of the historical, technological, and immediate socio-institutional circumstances that make the broadcast of his lecture possible. I am particularly concerned with the contradictions between the performative and the discursive aspects of the lecture, and with the way the virtual environment of the transmission plays into that instability. I analyze how the modes of resistance to power that Bhabha proposes involve a displacement from the realm of the real to that of the virtual, and what his reiteratively deferred promise of connectivity implies. In order to bring about such an exploration, I recast Lacan’s concepts of metaphor and metonymy. In recurring to Lacan for an ideological critique of an instance of postcolonial discourse, I seek to exploit a potential in his work that is rarely considered of interest for political analyses
Nóesis: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2022
En este artículo reflexiono acerca de la importancia del pensamiento abductivo en procesos de rei... more En este artículo reflexiono acerca de la importancia del pensamiento abductivo en procesos de reinvención material y conceptual en el contexto de la actual crisis sanitaria. Inscrita en el cambio climático planetario, esta crisis sentaría las bases para una revolución semiótica. Por ello, interrogo el trabajo de Peirce sin perder consciencia de mi propio lugar y tiempo de interlocución. El COVID-19 trajo consigo una crisis de representación que, a diferencia de aquella que desencadenaron
Estudios de Asia y África, 2005
Open Cultural Studies, Nov 1, 2018
This article focuses on the interplay between correlated textual subject positions, insofar as th... more This article focuses on the interplay between correlated textual subject positions, insofar as they are differently legitimated across the New International Division of Labour (NIDL). In examining the academic system of referencing or invocation, I will pay particular attention to how it functions as a circuit of value production in the cultural domain. Marx's theory of value production will be used as an exegetic tool to locate the workings of economic power in the referential apparatus of the contemporary academy, showing how Third-World symbolic production is undervalued despite its existence, since economic conditions retroactively foreclose the validation of Third-World intellectual and artistic production as cultural capital. As a case study, I will analyse some of the citation strategies of postcolonial theorist Anthony Appiah in In My Father's House, which operates within the presupposition that textual subject positions (the place of enunciation in particular) are made available only to privileged subjects in the extra-textual world. Appiah's methodology opens up what I call a circumscribed redistribution of cultural capital across the NIDL. Hence, I take In My Father's House not only as an object of analysis but also as a critical source to understand how value production mediates academic writing, allowing Appiah's conceptualization of the relationship between textual and social subjects to inform my own.
Estudios de Asia y África, May 1, 2004
pensar el acto de pensar el pasado; de pensar los mecanismos de poder implícitos en el hecho de r... more pensar el acto de pensar el pasado; de pensar los mecanismos de poder implícitos en el hecho de relatarlo.
Estudios latinoamericanos (México), Nov 11, 2021
Colonialismo neoliberal: modernidad, devastación y automatismo de mercado de José Guadalupe Ganda... more Colonialismo neoliberal: modernidad, devastación y automatismo de mercado de José Guadalupe Gandarilla Salgado, resalta por la amplitud de sus referentes y la profundidad de su mirada en asuntos que van desde la economía política, la historia y la sociología, hasta la ontología, la fenomenología, la psicología, los estudios culturales, la teoría decolonial y la teoría crítica. A pesar de su gran rigor académico, su redacción fluye de manera fácil y accesible, captando la atención de la lectora o el lector de manera sostenida a través de sus 365 páginas. El libro se construye como una compilación de escritos de diferentes momentos del proyecto coordinado por el autor en la UNAM entre 2014 y 2016, titulado "El programa de investigación modernidad/colonialidad como herencia del pensar latinoamericano y relevo de sentido en la Teoría Crítica". Aun construido así, el texto tiene una coherencia impecable, algo muy singular en un momento en que el libro como forma está prácticamente en peligro de extinción.
Open Cultural Studies, Dec 1, 2018
The oversaturation of information that characterizes the "digital age" is not only a question of ... more The oversaturation of information that characterizes the "digital age" is not only a question of large numbers of competing discourses blurring meaning itself out, but also of a fundamental disassociation between words and their use, between the constative and the performative dimensions of language. Baudrillard has analysed how the mutability of signs in our society has rendered meaning meaningless, through an infinite game of simulacra and simulation that forecloses our understanding of reality rather than making it legible. Meanwhile, Sloterdijk and Žižek have approached the same problematic from a different angle, analysing how actions perform an ideological foreclosure that cannot be observed when analysing signs alone. What discourses say and what they actually do today is often contradictory and this contradiction fulfills an ideological function. This is especially troubling when discourses declare themselves to be counter-hegemonic yet actively participate in the reproduction of the status quo. In this context, it is pertinent to return to the work of Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times.
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2021
The most recent meaning of both forms of the term came into use when the field of postcolonial st... more The most recent meaning of both forms of the term came into use when the field of postcolonial studies itself came into existence. Insofar as postcolonial theorists addressed the abstract condition, naming it for the first time and constituting it as an object of study, it may be said that postcolonial theory preposterously constituted-in the sense that it named and made legitimate-the postcolonial condition. Yet "postcolonialism," just like "postcolonial," may refer both to a specific historical period and to formerly colonized space, on the one hand, or to an abstract symbolic condition, only vaguely associated with that geo-historical location, on the other. The respective entries in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) expose this duality. The term "post-colonial" is defined as "[o]ccurring or existing after the end of colonial rule; of or relating to a former colony. In later use also: of or relating to the cultural condition of a former colony, esp. regarding its relationship with the former colonial power." This double meaning is echoed in the OED entry for "postcolonialism," which reads, "[t]he fact or state of having formerly been a colony; the cultural condition of (a) post-colonial society." 10 8 Despite later variations, in 1997 Laclau maintains that floating and empty signifiers are, for all practical purposes, the same: "In the case of a floating signifier we would apparently have an overflowing of meaning while an empty signifier, on the contrary, would ultimately be a signifier without a signified. But if we analyze the matter more carefully, we realize that the floating character of a signifier is the only phenomenic form of its emptiness" (1997: 306). Laclau is an Argentinean-born political theorist working at the University of Essex, U.K. Hence, the postcolonial, as an abstract condition of being and knowing, is inextricably linked to postcolonialism as an academic field. As will be discussed below, this proximity has crucial implications for the centrality of the subject in postcolonial theory and, particularly, for where that subject is situated in a geo-economic totality. For the time being, 14 12 Dirlik is a Turkish historiographer specialized in Chinese history; he taught in the U.S.A, at Duke University and the University of Oregon; though still active, he is now retired. Ahmad considers that even today "the already existing structures of the nation-state are a fundamental reality" and hence "the struggle for even the prospect of … transition presumes a national basis" (318, emphasis in text). Yet, as in the case of Dirlik, Ahmad's emphasis is on the fact that today "the nation-state has ceased to be the discrete site for the reproduction of advanced capital" (313, emphasis in text). But the changing role of the nation-state must be distinguished from the possibility of a continued pertinence of the Third World category. As Ahmad's account of 13 I use the term "Third World" as "a matter simply of common parlance," a usage "which makes no theoretical pretence and applies the nomenclature 'Third World' simply to the so-called developing countries" (Ahmad 1992: 307). Nonetheless, as the political analyst and literary theorist at the Centre of Contemporary Studies in New Delhi, India, Aijaz Ahmad also explains, "this term, 'Third World', does not come to us as a mere descriptive category, to designate a geographical location or a specific relation with imperialism alone. It carries within it contradictory layers of meaning and political purpose" (307). For a full length analysis and historization of the term as a theoretical category see Ahmad 1992: 287-318. 14 See also Ahmad 1992: 287-318, esp. 304-311.
Estudios de Asia y África, 2004
Page 103. Thamyris/Intersecting No. 19 (2008) 101118 Migratory Clichés: Recognizing Nyerere'... more Page 103. Thamyris/Intersecting No. 19 (2008) 101118 Migratory Clichés: Recognizing Nyerere's The Capitalists of Venice Paulina Aroch Fugellie Mabepari wa Venisi [The Capitalists of Venice] is a Swahili translation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. ...