Aesthetics of repetition: materiality, seriality, and fiction

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Sustaining the modern nation requires more effort than control, as national order arises from the performance of unforced routines (Benedict Anderson). Its identity is largely habitual; its production, mostly a reproduction. It can be argued that it is by definition dependent on the operations of mass media, and that seriality guarantees their survival. From a culture industry approach -mass media create ideology by a time-regime predicated on quotidian reinforcement-, to examining the coincidence between the liberal nation with the seriality of the economic system of capitalism, this panel discusses the nature of seriality in Latin American literature, television and comics.

Sub Track

• Literary Studies: Contemporary

Chair

• Mayra G Bottaro, University of Oregon

Individual Presentations

• Transgressive repetition and serial forms - Mayra G Bottaro, University of Oregon

• “Ninfa, Kismoloncita y las chicas Audiffred. Personajes femeninos y serialización en las primeras tiras cómicas mexicanas” - Daniel Efraín Navarro Granados, El Colegio de México

• : "La escritura de lo citidiano. Serialidad y espíritu de los tiempos a través de la ficción televisiva" - Giancarlo Cappello Flores

• Lo televisivo más allá del televisor. La recomposición del campo audiovisual nacional desde el relato serializado - Andre M Dorcé, Departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicacion, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa

Discussant

• Amy E Wright, St Louis University