Poetics of Opposition in Contemporary Spain Politics and the Work of
Pairing cultural analysis in urban contexts with interdisciplinary approaches to political culture, this book argues that recent cultural production in Spain grapples with the conditions and possibilities for social transformation in dialogue with the ong
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JONATHAN SNYDER
POETICS OF OPPOSITION IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN Politics and the Work of Urban Culture
Poetics of Opposition in Contemporary Spain
HISPANIC URBAN STUDIES BENJAMIN FR ASER is Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University, North Carolina, US. He is the editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and the author, editor, and translator of book and article publications in Hispanic Studies, Cultural Studies, and Urban Studies. SUSAN LARSON is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky, US. She is Senior Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies and works at the intersections of Spatial Theory and Literary, Film and Urban Studies. Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities Benjamin Fraser Poetics of Opposition in Contemporary Spain: Politics and the Work of Urban Culture Jonathan Snyder
Poetics of Opposition in Contemporary Spain Politics and the Work of Urban Culture
Jonathan Snyder
POETICS OF OPPOSITION IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN
Copyright © Jonathan Snyder, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-53679-2 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-56890-1 ISBN 978-1-137-53321-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137533210 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
List of Figures
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments Introduction Urban Multitudes: 15M and the Spontaneous “Spanish Revolution” 1
2
1
Lessons Felt, Then Learned
27
La(s) crisis Reflections on an Automated Life in Apesteguía’s Poetry
27 46
On Affect, Action, Urban Intervention
69
Practices of Oppositional Literacy in 15M City, Interrupted: Sierra and Galindo’s Performance Los encargados
3 The Biopolitics of Neoliberal Governance
4
xvii
69 112
125
Neoliberal Myth Sensing the Crisis in Nophoto’s El último verano
125 145
House Rules
163
Reading the (Il)Legible State of Exception Desiring Scenarios for Change in Zamora’s Theater
163 181
Notes
207
Bibliography
219
Index
237
Figures
I.1
2.1 3.1 3.2 3.3 4.1
15M portrayed as a political awakening. Sequence of still images from In
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