This event brings together prominent scholars of what can be described as the economic turn in Latin American Cultural Studies. Rethinking the role of aesthetics and narrative structures within the history of capitalism, they provide a nuanced outlook on the economic discourses and apparatuses that have defined capital accumulation in the region. In addition to a shared methodological approach that combines literary and economic analysis, the trait that distinguishes these studies is a concern with understanding the specificity of capitalism in Latin America. Troubled by the increased naturalization of extractivism and neoclassical theories during the neoliberal age, these body of works have provided a new critique of political economy through an engagement with the Latin American archive. They draw from Dependency Theory, neo-Keynesianism, and the Marxist traditions that shaped the field in the 1970s and 1980s, but they take these scholarships on new and productive intellectual paths
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STRANGE THAT IT'S BEEN years since I last saw live performance. But everyone was exclaiming this now-familiar platitude as they busily embraced on the sidewalk at the intersection of Rivington and Orchard the past October, during the collective reunion which took as its backdrop and pretext Kevin Beasley’s The Sound of Morning. The first of eight commissions realized for this year’s Performa Biennial, the performance began almost unnoticeably. One of Beasley’s collaborators flung a deflated basketball into the air; another began methodically disassembling a black metal barrier that had been