Waste and Cultural Critique: A Theoretical Map Inferred from Latin American Aesthetics

Waste and Cultural Critique: A Theoretical Map Inferred from Latin American Aesthetics

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The quest fryer semantic field of waste and dirt is a resource for artistic practices that have contributed to regulate, to question, or to attack symbolic systems and social imaginaries in different historical-political contexts.Beginning with the cultural economy of modernity/coloniality and its asymmetrical logic of exclusion and discard, the essay investigates a series of rhetorical figurations and types of production of meaning equi jec 7 that have articulated the isotopy of dirt in the Latin American and Caribbean context.Thinking through the interaction and complicity between culture, art and garbage, and drawing upon a couple of brief readings, it proposes five paradigmatic aesthetic modalities that enable the tracing of a theoretical map of the aesthetic use of waste as imaginative basis for cultural critique.