may 15
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6:00 PM
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8:00 PM
CMT
Second lecture in the series leading up to the II Conference on the Sociology of Literature. It will be held virtually via the GESoL (IIGG) YouTube channel. We are pleased to announce that the lecture will be given by Ana Longoni and is titled "Oscar Masotta, Theory as Action": Oscar Masotta (Buenos Aires 1930-Barcelona 1979) was a progressive intellectual, a controversial and provocative agitator situated amidst the abrupt transformation of the political and cultural scenes in which he participated between the 1950s and 1970s. Against the grain of the strongly anti-intellectual climate that prevailed at the time, he defended theoretical work as a specific mode of emancipatory political intervention. His passions and areas of intervention were polymorphous, multiple, and fluid: from literature and political activism to the artistic avant-garde, comics, and psychoanalysis. A heterodox Marxist and intellectual marginal to academia, he was (and still is) resisted for his dandyism (carefully disheveled) and the “frivolity” of his passions (from the left-wing intelligentsia he was criticized for dedicating himself to making happenings instead of addressing the problem of hunger, and for not fitting into the model of the committed intellectual, nor the organic intellectual).
