Excremental baroque. Conjunciones y disyunciones in Octavio Paz essays

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Rodrigo Naranjo

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One sees emerging within the recovering Latin American Baroque the deformation of the cultural dialectic by which colonialism and dependency are perceived as a bipolar narrative, or a given, established relationship between
the body and the spirit of capitalism. As a critique of the moral, or individualism, the interrogation of Latin American Baroque allows one to examine eroticism as an expression of the material constellations and functions of the body running and crossing established divisions between nature and culture. The relationship in between the essay and the baroque become very particular; it shows the exhaustion of the essay as an instrument of transculturization and a discourse of ‘mestizo’ formations. We might say that the rediscovery of the link between the baroque and the essay begins with ways of looking at the body and eroticism as an alternative to the Weberian critique of modern disenchantment and the primacy given to the spirit of capitalism.

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Rodrigo Naranjo, University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh