Cosmos, Values, and Consciousness in Latin American Digital Culture

This book examines digital cultural production of electronic literatures and digital art by looking at electronic and digital works that produce subjective positionality, clouded knowledges of quantum theories, and metaphysical patterns grounded in a cult

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Cosmos, Values, and Consciousness in Latin American Digital Culture

Angelica J. Huizar

Cosmos, Values, and Consciousness in Latin American Digital Culture

Angelica J. Huizar World Languages & Cultures Department Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA, USA

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Acknowledgments

Part of Chapter 5, the analysis of Fernando Llanos’ work, was originally published in Spanish as “Las poéticas digitales y el crítico social: Escenas de las ‘videointervenciones’ de Fernando Llanos” in Poesía y poéticas digitales/electrónicas/tecnos/New-Media en América Latina: Definiciones y exploraciones (Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, 2016), edited by Luis Correa-Díaz and Scott Weintraub, pp. 99–135. This project was the focus of my research during my sabbatical in Fall 2017, I thank the World Languages and Cultures Department and the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University for the research leave to facilitate the first manuscript. To my colleagues and friends who read and heard its many versions, I am indebted for their intellectual exchanges. I am grateful to Kerstin Steitz, whose supportive morale meant the world to me. Lee Slater’s recommendations led me to discover The Tao of Physics, and Martha Daas inspired me to write at least “a page a day.” Much gratitude to Linda Hero for her moral support. At the ELO Conference I met wonderful scholars in this field who soon became friends and supporters: Orchid Ti