The Language of Hate. Public Writings and Democracy

Authors

  • Gabriel Giorgi New York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201843063

Keywords:

Hate, Politica Affect, Electronic Writing, Contemporary Art, Public Writing

Abstract

Two recent art installations, one from Argentina and the other from Brazil, are focused on hate as the key political affect in our era, turning it into the kernel of new political languages, expressive forms and positions of subjectivity in the current political landscape. The two pieces are Diarios del odio (Hate Dairies, 2014), by Roberto Jacoby y Sid Krochmalny, and Odiolândia (Hateland, 2017), by Giselle Beiguelman. Both pieces share a same aesthetic gesture: they work on writings produced and circulated in electronic terrain.
The current essay explores two arguments around the question of writing in these pieces. On the one hand, it analizes how they expose the conditions of appearance of new enonciations and its ability to dispute conceptions of democracy from the disruption of these voices. On the other hand, it interrogates how these pieces, in their rethinking of the technologies and the politiccs of writing, reopen the question of the literary from an expanded existence of the written word and its circulation.

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Published

2018-10-02

How to Cite

Giorgi, G. (2018). The Language of Hate. Public Writings and Democracy. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (4), 54–66. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201843063