Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture

This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o) American identity through their on- and offline cultural practice.

Claire Taylor is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her recent publications include Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production, co-authored with Thea Pitman (Routledge, 2013), Identity, Nation, Discourse, ed. (2009) and Latin American Cyberliterature and Cyberculture, co-edited with Thea Pitman (2007).

Preface: Negotiating Net Art Communities in Latin America 1. Introduction: Re-articulating Place: The Resistant Use of Technologies and the Tactics of Re-territorialization in Latin(o) American Net Art 2. Memoria Histórica de la Alameda: The Mapping Out of Resistant Memory Battles in Chile 3. Sites of Memory in Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina 4. Re-Mapping Montevideo: Affective Cartographies and Post-Digital Remixes in Brian Mackern's 34s56w.org 5. Questioning Democracy and Re-encoding the Map of Colombia: Martha Patricia Niño's Demo Scape V 0.5 6. Monopolies and Maquiladoras: The Resistant Re-encoding of Gaming in Coco Fusco and Ricardo Domínguez's Turista Fronterizo 7. Resignifying the Border and the Streets in Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga's Vagamundo, A Migrant's Tale 8. Conclusion: Struggles over Place: Latin(o) American Net Art as Resistant Praxis