Technopoetics of the Anthropocene

Rendering Our Present through Echoes in Mexican Bots and Machines

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ID3818562
AuthorsFrancisco Gerardo Tijerina Martínez (0000-0003-3880-2597, Washington University in St. Louis USA, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume44
Issue3
Pages161-174
Publication date2025-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.13615
OpenAlexW4405727678
LanguageEN
References cited16

The Anthropocene is marked with a multilayered environmental crisis that requires cultural changes. Although a complex task, the contemporary Mexican artists studied here have explored this issue through literary means. In this paper, I analyse La máquina distópica (The Dystopian Machine) and El mono infinito (The Infinite Monkey) as technopoetical tools to understand the present from a historical perspective. I suggest that the usage of canonical figures such as Amparo Dávila and Ada Lovelace in these pieces provides a critical grounding that tensions the notion of individual authorship and affords a transhistorical and transtemporal approach to an endangered planet

Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Art · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Rendering (computer graphics · Visual arts · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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