Placebo Intellectuals in the Wake of Cosmopolitanism
A “Pharmacological” Approach to Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12971587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herlinghaus Herlinghaus (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-101 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Global South (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1932-8648 • E-ISSN: 1932-8656 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/globalsouth.5.1.101 |
| OpenAlex | W2002696516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
Offering a “pharmacological” perspective, this essay elaborates on the Chilean Roberto Bolano’s novel 2666 . It discusses narrative imaginaries that regraph cultural experiences and spaces of self-consciousness as they emerge from singular global south networks. In 2666 , the Mexican-U.S. border region operates as a fraught site through which a global a esthetics of sobriety gains shape and texture, a phenomenon upon which Bolano’s text depends for its critique of Western academic knowledge. From there, I consider how a “pharmacological” problematization of Western culture can reshape our perspective of the constitution of a global modernity
Alternative medicine · Cosmopolitanism · Physics · Placebo · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wake · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |