Manifiestos, proclamas y polémicas de la vanguardia literaria hispanoamericana (1988) [Spanish]

“El presente volumen constituye una suma de los textos más importantes mediante los cuales se debatió en toda América Latina el famoso movimiento de las vanguardias artísticas, acción renovadora de sintonía internacional cuyos efectos se hicieron sentir en todos los niveles de la vida social, política y cultural del mundo y de nuestro continente. A la vez, en sus protagonistas hispanoamericanos, acentuó el sentimiento de su condición común. Por ello es necesario dejar de considerar tal movimiento como un mero eco o reflejo de los vanguardismos europeos, para revelar, por el contrario, su consanguinidad continental y universal. El formidable trabajo realizado por Nelson Osorio para la edición de esta obra nos permite contar con una antología única en su tipo, ya que por primera vez se recogen textos programáticos, trabajos modernistas que se articulan al movimiento y documentos no literarios dispersos en numerosas publicaciones de difícil acceso para el lector, verdadero capítulo de las ideas estéticas latinoamericanas en el que se incluyen autores como Amado Nervo, Rubén Darío, Leopoldo Lugones, Luis Llorens Torres, Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Luis Borges, César Vallejo, José Carlos Mariátegui y Magda Portal, entre otros.”

Selected, edited, with introduction, bibliography and notes by Nelson Osorio T.
Publisher Biblioteca Ayacucho, Caracas, Venezuela, 1988
ISBN 9802760633, 9789802760633
xl+417 pages
via Natalie Johnson

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Branko Vučićević: Paper Movies (1998–) [Serbo-Croatian, English]

“Paper Movies predstavlja prvo domače srečanje z igrivo in lucidno mislijo vsestranskega erudita, cinefila, zlasti pa tudi poznavalca zgodovine avantgardnih gibanj: slikovita knjižica z metodo filmsko-literarnega kolaža zariše obrise svojevrstnega »kina z drugimi sredstvi«, ki se zaključuje in nadaljuje v mediju tiskane besede.”

Publisher Arkzin, Zagreb, and B 92, Belgrade, 1998
Anti-copyright
ISBN 867963090X (Bgd), 9536542056 (Zgb)
79 pages
via MemoryoftheWorld, via Dejan Kršić

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Excerpts (English, trans. Greg de Cuir, Jr., 2014)

See also Pavle Levi’s Cinema by Other Means, 2012.
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Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, J. Hillis Miller: Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (2016)

“Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene. The question that has escaped focus, as “tipping points” are acknowledged as passed, is how language, mnemo-technologies, and the epistemology of tropes appear to guide the accelerating ecocide, and how that implies a mutation within reading itself—from the era of extinction events.

Only in this moment of seeming finality, the authors argue, does there arise an opportunity to be done with mourning and begin reading. Drawing freely on Paul de Man’s theory of reading, anthropomorphism and the sublime, Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols argues for a mode of critical activism liberated from all-too-human joys and anxieties regarding the future. It was quite a few decades ago (1983) that Jurgen Habermas declared that ‘master thinkers had fallen on hard times.’ His pronouncement of hard times was premature. For master thinkers it is the best of times. Not only is the world, supposedly, falling into a complete absence of care, thought and frugality, a few hyper-masters have emerged to tell us that these hard times should be the best of times. It is precisely because we face the end that we should embrace our power to geo-engineer, stage the revolution, return to profound thinking, reinvent the subject, and recognize ourselves fully as one global humanity. Enter anthropos.”

Publisher Open Humanities Press, 2016
Critical Climate Change series
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License
ISBN 9781785420153 (Print), 9781785420160 (PDF)
220 pages

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