Jens Andermann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104030 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jens Andermann |
| NOMBRES | Jens |
| APELLIDO | Andermann |
| FIRMA | ANDERMANN J |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Inmundo
In one of the central chapters of his monumental work The Falling Sky, written in collaboration with the anthropologist Bruce Albert, the activist, shaman, and chronicler of the Yanomami people Davi Kopenawa wonders how one can speak to white people. 1 How can shamanic insight into the impending catastrophe of a collapsing sky, Kopenawa asks, be shared with outsiders when these literally cannot see the forest for the trees? Because white society …
Introduction
The articles collected in this double issue were selected among the responses to an open call for papers circulated at the beginning of 2025, encouraging contributors to think from the vantage point of cultural studies about the novel affective energies, subjectivities, and symbolic forms the Latin American new right has ushered in, arguing that these cannot be left to sociology and political science alone. Understanding their novelty (as well as…
« Deconstructing the Map 2.0 »
Publié à la fin des années 1980, l’essai du géographe et historien de la cartographie John Brian Harley, qu’évoque le titre de cet essai, nous a introduit à une approche poststructuraliste de la critique des cartes. Mobilisant une instrumentalité derridienne, Harley insistait sur une réimagination des cartes comme palimpsestes denses de gestes rhétoriques qui tissent un réseau complexe de pouvoir sur les pratiques spatiales qu’elles induisent. Ce…
O porão do mundo
Compondo uma espécie de nova trilogia que revê a anterior das "cartas das Fontaínhas", Juventude em Marcha (2006), Cavalo Dinheiro (2014) e Vitalina Varela (2019) de Pedro Costa ampliam seu foco no bairro marginal da periferia de Lisboa para as experiências da diáspora cabo-verdiana residente em Portugal e para a sua existência fraturada no tempo e no espaço, marcada pela emigração forçada, pela discriminação e pelo abandono. Mas, em vez de traba…
Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as we…
Introduction The Power of Images
Self-Reflexivity as Infra-Structure
Self-Reflexivity as Infra-StructureA review of Karen Benezra, Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America Jens Andermann (bio) Benezra, Karen. Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America. U of California P, 2020. Over the course of little more than a decade, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Latin American art experienced a wholesale transformation. As evidenced by the diverse group invited to participate in the Museum of Mode…
Memories of Extractivism
In this article, I wish to bring Davi Kopenawa's and Bruce Albert's The Falling Sky (first published in French in 2010) into dialogue with the two canonic genres of political memory in Latin America: on the one hand, the witnessing – in survivors' accounts but also in verbal, visual, and architectural forms of monumentalisation – of the dictatorial state's clandestine system of abducting, torturing, and killing those suspected of "subversion" and…
Tierras en trance
Turn of the Tide? Cultural Critique and the New Right
The following contributions are transcripts of talks and debates from a workshop jointly organized by the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and the Latin American Center Zurich, which took place at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on March 2-3, 2017. Titled, somewhat provocatively, 'Cultural Criticism and the Fascist Turn', the workshop invited four renowned cultural critics from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay to reflect on the rec…
We are never alone
Brazilian-born artist Eduardo Kac’s (Rio de Janeiro, 1962) work has raised eyebrows especially for his ‘transgenic art’ projects, among others: Genesis, 1999; GFP Bunny, 2000; The Eight Day, 2001; Natural History of the Enigma, 2003/08. In all of these, Kac and his scientific collaborators realize genetic interventions into living organisms at the same time as they trigger audience reactions to these from playful kinds of interaction that is inte…
It's the Ideology, Stupid! In Macri's Argentina
A first snapshot from the frontlines of ‘change’ in Latin America: cumbia music from the Casa Rosada, police repression against villeros and indigenous activists, and soul-searching amidst supporters of the ‘Victory Front’ in the face of defeat. Have we now moved from the ‘pink’ to the ‘yellow tide
A sense of inversion
Placing Latin American memory
This introduction sketches out some spatial and locational aspects of memory and mourning in postdictatorial Latin America. The special issue aims to shed light on memorial sites’ role in the process of reclaiming individual and collective stories from victims of dictatorial repression. If, as Susana Draper has argued, during Latin America’s “return to democracy,” an “architectonics of transition” inscribed in urban spaces new diagrams of citizen…
Exhausted Landscapes
This article analyzes the compositional modes and signifying functions of landscape in four recent Latin American films. Comparing their deployment of the landscape form with rural-based predecessors from Brazilian and Argentine cinematic modernity, the article traces an exhaustion of landscape as purveyor of allegorical meanings. Yet the more recent films also reveal—through their self-conscious deployment of the landscape form—the historical co…
La nación expuesta. Cultura visual y procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina
Esta obra reúne once ensayos originales acerca de la función de las imágenes en los procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina, incluyendo contribuciones de especialistas de Europa, Estados Unidos, América Latina e Israel. Inspirados por el reciente "giro pictorial" en las ciencias sociales, estos textos no sólo transcienden los límites nacionales, sino también los disciplinares, combinando acercamientos de la historia, la literatura, l…
New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emergence of the real as a prime concern in contemporary
Returning to the Site of Horror
Further to the recent handover of the Naval School of Mechanics (ESMA), Argentina's most notorious centre for the clandestine torture and assassination of leftist militants under the dictatorship of 1976-83, to the city of Buenos Aires, in order to create on the premises a 'Space for Memory', debates on the proper commemoration of the recent past have gained momentum. In the course of these, it has become clear that there is currently no consensu…
Expanded Fields
This paper aims to recast debates on postdictatorial memory in the Southern Cone, suggesting that the role of landscape alongside the more familiar models and forms of commemoration – archives, museums, monuments – hasn't thus far received the attention it deserves. Landscape, as a surface of inscription and as a spatial opening, encompasses a number of aesthetic registers, from architecture to writing and the visual arts. Here I shall trace its …
Tesis sobre la metamorfosis
Cómo podemos pensar en términos del discurso de la especie los relatos de metamorfosis que abundan en la tradición literaria latinoamericana y donde la fluidez entre lo humano y lo animal o más generalmente inter species no adviene por lo general de la palabra proscriptiva de un 'otro dominante' sino que emana del propio ser que se metamorfosea en otro? ¿Se trataría de un contradiscurso o simplemente de una más de las variantes del discurso de la…
State Formation, Visual Technology and Spectatorship
How can we conceive of the relation between technologies of image-making and the formations of political power, without reducing the former to merely superstructural effects of a pre-existing ideology or deducing the latter from the functional determination inherent in technical apparatuses? In this article, I revisit the notion of the state as a visual form I proposed in an earlier work, arguing that in order to understand the articulation betwe…
Tournaments of Value
The `Age of Exhibitions' included the newly independent Latin American nation-states almost from the very outset. This article studies the complex strategies of material and visual display, architecture and writing through which representations of Argentina and Brazil were fashioned at the world fairs. It argues that, as peripheral affiliates of the emergent capitalist world-system, Latin Americans had to negotiate the material and symbolic value…
No Matarás('Thou Shalt Not Kill)
One largely unexpected aspect of the presidency of Nestor Kirchner in Argentina has been the active support and encouragement by the national government of the efforts of human rights organizations
Images of power
In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern st…
Images of Power
Returning to the Site of Horror
Further to the recent handover of the Naval School of Mechanics (ESMA), Argentina's most notorious centre for the clandestine torture and assassination of leftist militants under the dictatorship of 1976-83, to the city of Buenos Aires, in order to create on the premises a 'Space for Memory', debates on the proper commemoration of the recent past have gained momentum. In the course of these, it has become clear that there is currently no consensu…
Expanded Fields
This paper aims to recast debates on postdictatorial memory in the Southern Cone, suggesting that the role of landscape alongside the more familiar models and forms of commemoration – archives, museums, monuments – hasn't thus far received the attention it deserves. Landscape, as a surface of inscription and as a spatial opening, encompasses a number of aesthetic registers, from architecture to writing and the visual arts. Here I shall trace its …
Tournaments of Value
The `Age of Exhibitions' included the newly independent Latin American nation-states almost from the very outset. This article studies the complex strategies of material and visual display, architecture and writing through which representations of Argentina and Brazil were fashioned at the world fairs. It argues that, as peripheral affiliates of the emergent capitalist world-system, Latin Americans had to negotiate the material and symbolic value…
Espetáculos da diferença
A Exposição Antropológica Brasileira, celebrada em 1882 no Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, é analizada aqui como um intento monumental e espetacular de revalorizar a iconografia indianista do Império que na época parecia ter-se tornado redundante. A evidência material da "realidade" indígena exigia uma reavaliação da utilidade do índio como representante da nação moderna: da mesma forma em que o discurso indianista não pode estar reduzido a um …
Placing Latin American memory
This introduction sketches out some spatial and locational aspects of memory and mourning in postdictatorial Latin America. The special issue aims to shed light on memorial sites’ role in the process of reclaiming individual and collective stories from victims of dictatorial repression. If, as Susana Draper has argued, during Latin America’s “return to democracy,” an “architectonics of transition” inscribed in urban spaces new diagrams of citizen…
Memories of Extractivism
In this article, I wish to bring Davi Kopenawa's and Bruce Albert's The Falling Sky (first published in French in 2010) into dialogue with the two canonic genres of political memory in Latin America: on the one hand, the witnessing – in survivors' accounts but also in verbal, visual, and architectural forms of monumentalisation – of the dictatorial state's clandestine system of abducting, torturing, and killing those suspected of "subversion" and…
Exhausted Landscapes
This article analyzes the compositional modes and signifying functions of landscape in four recent Latin American films. Comparing their deployment of the landscape form with rural-based predecessors from Brazilian and Argentine cinematic modernity, the article traces an exhaustion of landscape as purveyor of allegorical meanings. Yet the more recent films also reveal—through their self-conscious deployment of the landscape form—the historical co…
Reshaping the Creole past
Towards the end of the nineteenth century the creole élite at Buenos Aires, in the face of a rapidly changing economy and European immigration in formerly unknown proportions, felt an increasing need to re-define Argentine national identity in terms of a shared heritage and tradition. However, mestizo and indigenous influences rarely came to figure in the collections displayed at historical exhibitions and in museums. Rather, it was the private, …
Total recall
It's the Ideology, Stupid! In Macri's Argentina
A first snapshot from the frontlines of ‘change’ in Latin America: cumbia music from the Casa Rosada, police repression against villeros and indigenous activists, and soul-searching amidst supporters of the ‘Victory Front’ in the face of defeat. Have we now moved from the ‘pink’ to the ‘yellow tide
Turn of the Tide? Cultural Critique and the New Right
The following contributions are transcripts of talks and debates from a workshop jointly organized by the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and the Latin American Center Zurich, which took place at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on March 2-3, 2017. Titled, somewhat provocatively, 'Cultural Criticism and the Fascist Turn', the workshop invited four renowned cultural critics from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay to reflect on the rec…
La nación expuesta. Cultura visual y procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina
Esta obra reúne once ensayos originales acerca de la función de las imágenes en los procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina, incluyendo contribuciones de especialistas de Europa, Estados Unidos, América Latina e Israel. Inspirados por el reciente "giro pictorial" en las ciencias sociales, estos textos no sólo transcienden los límites nacionales, sino también los disciplinares, combinando acercamientos de la historia, la literatura, l…
State Formation, Visual Technology and Spectatorship
How can we conceive of the relation between technologies of image-making and the formations of political power, without reducing the former to merely superstructural effects of a pre-existing ideology or deducing the latter from the functional determination inherent in technical apparatuses? In this article, I revisit the notion of the state as a visual form I proposed in an earlier work, arguing that in order to understand the articulation betwe…
No Matarás('Thou Shalt Not Kill)
One largely unexpected aspect of the presidency of Nestor Kirchner in Argentina has been the active support and encouragement by the national government of the efforts of human rights organizations
Total recall
Reshaping the Creole past
Towards the end of the nineteenth century the creole élite at Buenos Aires, in the face of a rapidly changing economy and European immigration in formerly unknown proportions, felt an increasing need to re-define Argentine national identity in terms of a shared heritage and tradition. However, mestizo and indigenous influences rarely came to figure in the collections displayed at historical exhibitions and in museums. Rather, it was the private, …
All That Remains
Images of Power
Espetáculos da diferença
A Exposição Antropológica Brasileira, celebrada em 1882 no Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, é analizada aqui como um intento monumental e espetacular de revalorizar a iconografia indianista do Império que na época parecia ter-se tornado redundante. A evidência material da "realidade" indígena exigia uma reavaliação da utilidade do índio como representante da nação moderna: da mesma forma em que o discurso indianista não pode estar reduzido a um …
Images of power
In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern st…
No Matarás('Thou Shalt Not Kill)
One largely unexpected aspect of the presidency of Nestor Kirchner in Argentina has been the active support and encouragement by the national government of the efforts of human rights organizations
Tournaments of Value
The `Age of Exhibitions' included the newly independent Latin American nation-states almost from the very outset. This article studies the complex strategies of material and visual display, architecture and writing through which representations of Argentina and Brazil were fashioned at the world fairs. It argues that, as peripheral affiliates of the emergent capitalist world-system, Latin Americans had to negotiate the material and symbolic value…
State Formation, Visual Technology and Spectatorship
How can we conceive of the relation between technologies of image-making and the formations of political power, without reducing the former to merely superstructural effects of a pre-existing ideology or deducing the latter from the functional determination inherent in technical apparatuses? In this article, I revisit the notion of the state as a visual form I proposed in an earlier work, arguing that in order to understand the articulation betwe…
Tesis sobre la metamorfosis
Cómo podemos pensar en términos del discurso de la especie los relatos de metamorfosis que abundan en la tradición literaria latinoamericana y donde la fluidez entre lo humano y lo animal o más generalmente inter species no adviene por lo general de la palabra proscriptiva de un 'otro dominante' sino que emana del propio ser que se metamorfosea en otro? ¿Se trataría de un contradiscurso o simplemente de una más de las variantes del discurso de la…
Returning to the Site of Horror
Further to the recent handover of the Naval School of Mechanics (ESMA), Argentina's most notorious centre for the clandestine torture and assassination of leftist militants under the dictatorship of 1976-83, to the city of Buenos Aires, in order to create on the premises a 'Space for Memory', debates on the proper commemoration of the recent past have gained momentum. In the course of these, it has become clear that there is currently no consensu…
Expanded Fields
This paper aims to recast debates on postdictatorial memory in the Southern Cone, suggesting that the role of landscape alongside the more familiar models and forms of commemoration – archives, museums, monuments – hasn't thus far received the attention it deserves. Landscape, as a surface of inscription and as a spatial opening, encompasses a number of aesthetic registers, from architecture to writing and the visual arts. Here I shall trace its …
New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emergence of the real as a prime concern in contemporary
Placing Latin American memory
This introduction sketches out some spatial and locational aspects of memory and mourning in postdictatorial Latin America. The special issue aims to shed light on memorial sites’ role in the process of reclaiming individual and collective stories from victims of dictatorial repression. If, as Susana Draper has argued, during Latin America’s “return to democracy,” an “architectonics of transition” inscribed in urban spaces new diagrams of citizen…
Exhausted Landscapes
This article analyzes the compositional modes and signifying functions of landscape in four recent Latin American films. Comparing their deployment of the landscape form with rural-based predecessors from Brazilian and Argentine cinematic modernity, the article traces an exhaustion of landscape as purveyor of allegorical meanings. Yet the more recent films also reveal—through their self-conscious deployment of the landscape form—the historical co…
La nación expuesta. Cultura visual y procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina
Esta obra reúne once ensayos originales acerca de la función de las imágenes en los procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina, incluyendo contribuciones de especialistas de Europa, Estados Unidos, América Latina e Israel. Inspirados por el reciente "giro pictorial" en las ciencias sociales, estos textos no sólo transcienden los límites nacionales, sino también los disciplinares, combinando acercamientos de la historia, la literatura, l…
A sense of inversion
It's the Ideology, Stupid! In Macri's Argentina
A first snapshot from the frontlines of ‘change’ in Latin America: cumbia music from the Casa Rosada, police repression against villeros and indigenous activists, and soul-searching amidst supporters of the ‘Victory Front’ in the face of defeat. Have we now moved from the ‘pink’ to the ‘yellow tide
We are never alone
Brazilian-born artist Eduardo Kac’s (Rio de Janeiro, 1962) work has raised eyebrows especially for his ‘transgenic art’ projects, among others: Genesis, 1999; GFP Bunny, 2000; The Eight Day, 2001; Natural History of the Enigma, 2003/08. In all of these, Kac and his scientific collaborators realize genetic interventions into living organisms at the same time as they trigger audience reactions to these from playful kinds of interaction that is inte…
Tierras en trance
Turn of the Tide? Cultural Critique and the New Right
The following contributions are transcripts of talks and debates from a workshop jointly organized by the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and the Latin American Center Zurich, which took place at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on March 2-3, 2017. Titled, somewhat provocatively, 'Cultural Criticism and the Fascist Turn', the workshop invited four renowned cultural critics from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay to reflect on the rec…
Self-Reflexivity as Infra-Structure
Self-Reflexivity as Infra-StructureA review of Karen Benezra, Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America Jens Andermann (bio) Benezra, Karen. Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America. U of California P, 2020. Over the course of little more than a decade, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Latin American art experienced a wholesale transformation. As evidenced by the diverse group invited to participate in the Museum of Mode…
Memories of Extractivism
In this article, I wish to bring Davi Kopenawa's and Bruce Albert's The Falling Sky (first published in French in 2010) into dialogue with the two canonic genres of political memory in Latin America: on the one hand, the witnessing – in survivors' accounts but also in verbal, visual, and architectural forms of monumentalisation – of the dictatorial state's clandestine system of abducting, torturing, and killing those suspected of "subversion" and…
Introduction The Power of Images
Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as we…
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