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abject, 139; Bolaño and, 119, 121–35, 201; corpses and, 105–6, 111–13, 118, 201; Kristeva on, 111–12, 118; in Latin American literature, post-1989, 135–36
Actuality of Communism, The (Bosteels), 204
“adolescentes, Los” (song), 266n27
Against World Literature (Apter), 108
Aira, César, 50, 52, 102, 137; God’s Tea Party, 33–34, 68, 88–101, 91, 250n60, 250n62; The Musical Brain, 88; translation of, 88–89, 98, 250n60. See also God’s Tea Party
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Carroll), 92–93, 96, 250n62
aliñado (Cuban liqueur), 24, 28
All the Garbage of the World (Kim), 216–17
Althusser, Louis, 23, 147
Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), 188
Amulet (Amuleto) (Bolaño), 118
Andrade, María Mercedes, 261n24
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 23
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe, 133, 134
Aristizábal, Juanita, 160
Armies, The (Los ejércitos) (Rosero), 136
Aufhebung (sublation), 4, 100
Australia, Indigenous people in, 102
Baudelaire, Charles, 35, 184
Beauty Salon (Bellatin), 136
Be Damned (art series), 215
Benjamin, Walter, 6, 110, 135, 147, 173, 185; on archeology, 20; on Baudelaire, 35, 184; memorial to, 271n45; on worker, technology and, 182
Bennett, Jane, 29, 37, 239n83; on assemblage, 22, 179; on nonhuman agency, 28, 35, 271n44; vibrant materialism of, 13, 21
Berardi, Franco (Bifo), 266n34
black flock (rebaño negro), 44
bodies: anus, 115–19, 126–27, 132, 212; Bataille on, 115–17; Bolaño and, 34, 105, 112–13, 119–33, 137; corpse as limit of, 119–20; corpse as Other of, 139; corpses and, 34, 105–6, 111–13, 118–21, 125–26, 128–32, 136–39, 188, 200–201; in Latin American literature, post-1989, 136–37; vagina dentata, 48, 83
Body Where I Was Born, The (Nettel), 136
Bolaño, Roberto, 58, 139, 210; abject and, 119, 121–35, 201; Amulet, 118; anus and, 117–18, 126–27, 132; bodies and, 34, 105, 112–13, 119–33, 137; By Night in Chile, 112–13, 117, 165; corpses and, 105, 112–13, 119–21, 125–26, 128–32; on femicide, 34, 128, 130–32, 135, 137, 211–12; “Labyrinth,” 115; “Mauricio ‘The Eye’ Silva,” 115, 117; Nazi Literature in the Americas, 54, 113; Nazism and, 54, 113, 130; puns of, 117–18, 120; “The Return,” 119–21; The Savage Detectives, 114, 117, 121–22, 132, 255n28; solar economy of, 117, 126, 128, 132; 2666, 34, 115, 117–18, 121–25, 128–33, 135, 178, 211–12; World Literature and, 113–15, 117–19, 121–24, 127, 129–30, 135. See also 2666
Book of Good Love, The (Archpriest of Hita), 103
Book of Lamentations, The (Castellanos), 223
botón de Nácar, El (The Pearl Button) (film), 271n43
“Bourgeois King, The” (Darío), 223
Bukharin, Nikolay Ivanovich, 206–7
By Night in Chile (Nocturno de Chile) (Bolaño), 112–13, 117, 165
Capitalism in the Web of Life (Moore), 201–2
Caro, Miguel Antonio, 158
casa de las dos palmas, La (Mejía Vallejo), 262n35
Castellanos, Rosario, 223
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 51, 55, 138
Chasteen, John Charles, 242n18
Chile: Allende in, 114–15, 171, 195, 197; digital technologies in, 171–72; neoliberalism in, 185, 195; Pinochet in, 113, 186, 195, 197; Synco in, 171, 195–97; Zambra and, 182–83, 185–86
chino en bicicleta, Un (Magnus), 53
Chocolate Pictures (Muniz), 61, 62
Christian literature, medieval, 103
collective subjectivity, 69–71
Coltán (Vásquez-Figueroa), 213–14
comidas profundas, Las (Deep Foods) (Ponte). See Deep Foods
commodities, 239n80, 240n90; bananas, 60, 226, 228; digital-age, 2; feathers as, 47; oil, 227–29; rubber, 32–33, 36, 43–53, 44, 56–58, 64, 182, 200, 213, 220, 222–23; sugar, 7–12, 27–28, 49, 59, 103, 227, 238n78, 272n51; tobacco, 7–12, 22, 27–28, 42, 49, 59, 67, 103, 238n78
commodity fetishism, 211; counterfetishism and, 7–8, 13, 58; Glantz on, 162; hyperfetishism compared with, 144–46, 151, 160, 164, 170; Marx on, 34, 146–51, 154, 160, 170, 204, 259n3, 260n8; in modernismo, 156–57; smartphone, 172; supply chains and, 208
communism: Cuban, 14–18, 23–26, 233n17; as endpoint of history, 16; historical materialism and, 23, 30–31, 37, 204–5; Marxism and, 16, 30, 137, 204–5, 209; midcentury international, 30; Soviet-style, 29
Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 137, 209
computer: cloud, 172, 186–97; literary production with, 218–19; smartphone as, 173; in supply chains, 210, 213, 216, 218–19; in Synco, 195–97; in 2666, 211–12; waste of, 216–18
computer, personal, 172, 189, 208; in assemblage, 179–80; love and, 179, 181, 183–84, 204; sleep and, 182–83; Zambra on, 35, 177–84, 186, 204, 210–11
Conquest of the Desert (Conquista del desierto), 67–68, 246n1
Con sentimiento y sabor (Tan bonita) (album), 174
Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y del azúcar (Cuban Counterpoint) (Ortiz). See Ortiz, Fernando
Coronil, Fernando, 234n22; on commodities, Ortiz and, 7–8, 13, 27, 58, 239n80; on counterfetishism, Ortiz and, 7–8, 58
corpses: abject and, 105–6, 111–13, 188, 201; anus and, 118–19; Bolaño and, 105, 112–13, 119–21, 125–26, 128–32; language and, 119–20; in Latin American literature, post-1989, 136–37; orientation toward, 34, 105–6, 111–12, 138–39, 200–201
Cosmopolitan Desires (Siskind), 127
Cuba, 37, 135; ajiaco of, 11–12, 24, 80; aliñado of, 24; hunger in, 17–18, 23–24; Ortiz and politics of, 233n17; Ponte and, 14–25; Special Period of, 14–18, 23, 25; sugar in, 7–12, 27–28, 49, 59, 103, 238n78; tobacco in, 7–12, 27–28, 42, 49, 59, 67, 103, 233n14
Cuban Counterpoint (Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y del azúcar) (Ortiz). See Ortiz, Fernando
deconstruction, 6, 8, 98, 106, 201; constructivism and, 95, 251n72; Derrida and, 95, 253n1; puns and, 95, 139
Deep Foods (Las comidas profundas) (Ponte), 99; aliñado in, 24; archeology and, 20–21; beer in, 20; Charles V in, 14–18, 24; eroticism in, 17, 23–25; as fruit, history in, 17; history, end of, and, 15–17; hunger in, 17–19, 23–24; incorporation in, 21–22, 24; nonhuman agency in, 27–28; Ortiz and, 22, 24, 26; pineapple in, 14–15, 17–18, 21, 24; Russell in, 19–20; tobacco in, 22
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 227–29
Devil Wears Prada, The (Weisberger), 161
Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno and Horkheimer), 130–31
Dictionary of Untranslatables, The (Depraz), 120
“Dieguito” (Feinmann), 136
digital technologies, 183, 266n34; artworks critiquing, 189–97; cell phone, 173–76; in Chile, 171–72; estrangement of, 172, 174, 186, 197, 211; extractivism and, 68, 172, 182, 187–89, 193–95, 197–98, 203–4, 211–13; ideologies of, 35, 172, 189, 197–98, 212; Internet of Things, 2, 186–87, 196; Lanier on, 181–82; lock-in effect of, 181; neoliberalism and, 173, 177; obsolescence of, Zambra on, 177–79, 186, 211; primitive accumulation and, 187–89, 193–95, 197–98; privatization of, 173–74, 177–78; Synco, 171, 195–97; waste of, 216–18. See also computer
Don Quixote (fictional character), 137
ejércitos, Los (The Armies) (Rosero), 136
Espejo de paciencia (Balboa), 18
estrangement: of digital technologies, 172, 174, 186, 197, 211; extractivism and, 35–36, 224; of human-nonhuman assemblages, 224; of Shklovsky, 37–38; of Zambra, 185–86
extermination: Guatemalan genocide, 221; of indigenous Patagonians, 67–68, 246n1; Magnus on, 50, 52–58, 63, 242n28; rubber and, 50–51; White on, 7, 54–55, 222, 232n10
Extractive Zone, The (Gómez-Barris), 231n2
extractivism, 102, 209, 219, 231n2; Bolívar on, 203–4; in Bolivia, 87, 249n53; in Colombia, 213–16, 215; desert, 68; digital, 68, 172, 182, 187–89, 193–95, 197–98, 203–4, 211–13; estranged, 35–36, 224; Glantz and, 164; in Guatemala, 220–22; in language, 226; Latin American configuration of, 203; Magnus on, 50–51, 56–58; mineral, 213–15; mining, 68, 87, 213–14; oil, 227–29; rubber, 32–33, 43–52, 44, 57–58, 182, 200, 213, 223; transcultural materialism as critique of, 3, 22, 87–88, 199, 202, 208, 212, 222–24, 227–29; Zambra and, 181–82, 210, 216. See also supply chains
Facebook’s Server Farm (photograph), 194
Family Tree, The (Las genealogías) (Glantz), 163
Farm (Pryor Creek, Oklahoma) (artwork), 191–93, 192
Feinmann, José Pablo, 136
femicide, 129; feminicide, 115, 131; Juárez, Holocaust and, 130–31; in 2666, 34, 128, 130–32, 135, 137, 211–12
Fernández, Patricio (Pato), 177
food, 2; ajiaco, 11–12, 24, 80; bananas, 60, 226, 228; beets, 12, 234n26; meat, 41–42, 224; Ortiz on, 11–12, 27, 80, 234n26; pineapple, 14–15, 17–18, 21, 24; Ponte on, 14–27, 38, 63, 67, 99; tomato, 217–18
Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Asshole (Gracias y desgracias del ojo del culo) (Quevedo), 115–16
Freud, Sigmund, 25, 53, 56, 123, 175; commodity fetish and, 164; Muniz portrait of, 61
fruit: bananas, 60, 226, 228; in Deep Foods, as history, 17; pineapple, 14–15, 17–18, 21, 24; tomato, 217–18; United Fruit Company, 194, 228
Fukuyama, Francis, 15, 114
García Linera, Álvaro, 82
García Márquez, Gabriel: bananas and, 60, 226, 228; on Macondo, 178, 227–29; One Hundred Years of Solitude, 60, 103, 178, 226–29, 262n35
Gardens (Harrison), 78–79
genealogías, Las (The Family Tree) (Glantz), 163
Glantz, Margo: The Family Tree, 163; on Ferragamo, 162–64; Historia de una mujer que caminó por la vida con zapatos de diseñador, 35, 145, 161–65; hyperfetishism of, 35, 145, 161–65, 202
Glendinning, Chellis, 183, 213
God’s Tea Party (El té de Dios) (Aira), 33–34, 68; apes, monkeys in, 88–90, 93–97; Carroll and, 92–93, 96, 250n62; divinity in, 90–91, 91, 92–94, 98–99; evolution in, 94–95; Hindu iconography and, 90–91, 91, 93; hyperobject in, 99, 101; nonhuman agency in, 93, 95–100; puns of, 90, 95; subatomic particle in, 88–89, 93, 95–101; World Literature and, 90–91, 94, 250n60
Gómez-Barris, Macarena, 231n2
González Ramírez, Sergio, 135
González Segura, Ricardo, 85
Gracias y desgracias del ojo del culo (Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Asshole) (Quevedo), 115–16
Guatemala, 136; extractivism in, 220–22; genocide in, 221; God’s Tea Party published in, 88, 90, 91, 94
Gutiérrez, Pedro Juan, 136
“Hecatomb” (Smith, P.), 137
historia (history, story), 223
Historia de una mujer que caminó por la vida con zapatos de diseñador (Glantz). See Glantz, Margo
História natural da ditadura (Coelho), 271n45
Holocausto del Palacio de Justicia, 52
Hopscotch (Cortázar), 121, 223
“Human Factors of Cubanity, The” (Ortiz), 7, 11–12
hyperfetishism, 208; commodity fetishism compared with, 144–46, 151, 160, 164, 170; of Glantz, 35, 145, 161–65, 202; of Magnus, 58; in Ricas y famosas, 35, 145, 165, 165–69, 166, 167; of Silva, 34–35, 145, 152–60, 261n18; of Vallejo, 145, 156–60, 202
hyperobject: correlationism rejected by, 74–76; in God’s Tea Party, 99, 101; El jardín de Nora and, 33, 68, 74–77, 82, 86, 101; Morton on, 33–34, 68, 74–77, 99; pachamama as, 76–77
ideological state apparatuses, 23, 147
Ilha das Flores (documentary), 217
Impuesto a la carne (Eltit), 136
jardín de Nora, El (Wiethüchter), 93, 100, 248n37; Aymara in, 71, 73, 76, 78–80, 84–85, 95–96; Bolivian National Constitution and, 69; decolonialism and, 81–82; geology in, 33–34, 77, 79, 84, 86–87; hybridity and, 85–86; hyperobject and, 33, 68, 74–77, 82, 86, 101; language and, 71–73, 76–78, 82–83, 86; Molina on, 81–82; Monasterios on, 79–81; muteness in, 80, 82–86; nature-culture and, 76–79, 99, 200; of nonhuman agency, verisimilitude in, 74–76, 84; as novela de la tierra, 83–84; pachamama in, 71, 75–77; paradise and, 73–74, 82–83
Journal of World Literature, 109–10
Juana Inés de la Cruz, 161
Juárez, Mexico, femicide in. See femicide
Kingdom of This World, The (Carpentier), 111
labor: exploitation of, Marx on, 64–66; Zambra and, 182–83
“Labyrinth” (Bolaño), 115
Lacanian psychoanalysis, 82–83, 112, 255n25; corpses, bodily excretions in, 119; hyperfetishism and, 164; objet petit a in, 121; suture in, 118
LaCapra, Dominick, 55, 226
Latin Americanism: nature-culture in, 102–3; new materialism and, 5–6, 202; transcultural materialism and, 224–25; World Literature and, 5–6, 201
Latin American literature, post-1989, 135–37
Latour, Bruno, 37, 98, 144; amodernity of, 27, 29, 36, 65; anthropodecentrism and, 252n90; ANT of, 28–29; Constitution of, 19, 49, 86; on constructivism, 95, 251n72; on critique, 201; Cuban writers and, 13–14, 19, 22–23; on human, nonhuman and, 19, 22–23, 27, 41, 53–54, 100; on literature, 99–101, 251n66; on nature-culture, 19, 48, 59; on nonhuman agency, 28–29, 100; Politics of Nature, 237n59; We Have Never Been Modern, 65
“Letter from Jamaica” (Bolívar), 203
lock-in effect, technological, 181
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, 119
Mad Hatter (fictional character), 92, 96
magical realism (lo real maravilloso), 74, 111
Magnarelli, Sharon, 46–47
Magnus, Ariel: La abuela, 242n28; Un chino en bicicleta, 53; on extractivism, 50–51, 56–58; Germany and, 50–51, 56–58, 242n28; historicism, anthropodecentric, of, 63; Holocaust and, 50, 53–55, 242n28; hyperfetishism of, 58; Muñecas, 33, 49–59, 63; Nazism and, 50–55, 57, 63, 242n28; on rubber, 33, 49–52, 56–57; sex dolls and, 33, 50–51, 56–59; transcultural materialism of, 49, 58–60, 62–63. See also Muñecas
Malinowski, Bronisław, 7, 9, 28
Mapping World Literature (Rosendahl Thomsen), 107
Maquilápolis (documentary), 212–13
Marx, Karl, 175, 188; Capital, 64, 146, 149, 157, 168, 187, 260n8; on commodity fetishism, 34, 146–51, 154, 160, 170, 204, 259n3, 260n8; communism and, 204; Communist Manifesto, 137, 209; on credit, 157; Cuba and, 16, 24; economicism of, 30–31; on exchange and use value, 148–51, 168, 260n8; on fetishism, hyperfetishism compared with, 145; Hegel and, 30, 64, 157, 239n83; on labor, exploitation of, 64–66; nonhuman agency and, 149–52, 182; Ortiz and, 13; primitive accumulation and, 145–46, 156, 187, 204; on raw material, 63–66, 201–2; on surplus value, 64; on World Literature, 137, 209
Marxism, 10, 213, 219, 268n13; ecology compared with, 228–29, 231n4; metonymic trope and, 239n89; new materialism and, 4, 232n5; transcultural materialism and, 65–66, 86
MAS (Movimiento al Socialismo), 81–82
material humano, El (Rey Rosa), 136
materialism, 2–3; base, 115, 131; of Bataille, 115; of Bolaño, 113–14, 131; of God’s Tea Party, 88, 93; idealism countered by, 30, 34, 116–17; language and, 6–7; literary studies and, 29, 100, 156, 201, 223, 227; nonhuman agency in, 30–31, 225; of Ortiz, 7, 9–14, 19, 26–27, 103; of Ponte, 21–23, 25–26, 67; vibrant, 13, 21
materialism, historical, 23, 28; new materialism and, 4, 37, 64, 100, 144, 204, 206–7, 225, 232n5; nonhuman agency in, 30–31
materialism, new, 29, 143; of Bennett, 13, 21–22, 37, 239n83; critical theory with, 204–5; historical materialism and, 4, 37, 64, 100, 144, 204, 206–7, 225, 232n5; Latin Americanism and, 5–6, 202; Marxism and, 4, 232n5; nature-culture and, 19, 28, 48, 59; Ortiz as precursor to, 7, 9–14, 19, 27; realism and, 10, 234n19; speculative leftism and, 206; transcultural materialism and, 4, 36–37, 100
materialism, transcultural, 2; bounds of, 225–26; commodity fetishism and, 34; extractivism critiqued by, 3, 22, 87–88, 199, 202, 208, 212, 222–24, 227–29; as historicism, 30–31; human and nonhuman critiqued by, 199–200, 224–25; hyperfetishism in, 144–45; ideology critiqued by, 31; of El jardín de Nora, 69, 74, 76–79, 81–82, 86–87; on Latin Americanism, impact of, 224–25; Latour and, 13–14, 37; literary studies and, 100, 223; of Magnus, 49, 58–60, 62–63; Marxism and, 65–66, 86; materialisms, historical and new, in, 4, 37, 100; narrative and method converging in, 84; nature-culture in, 13, 79, 201–2, 224–25; new materialism and, 4, 36–37, 100; nonhuman agency in, 30–31, 225; as postanthropocentric, 42, 65; raw material in, 43; of J. E. Rivera, 60, 62–63, 65, 67; for World Literature, 37, 105, 137–39, 201
“Mauricio ‘The Eye’ Silva” (“Ojo Silva, El”) (Bolaño), 115, 117
medieval Christian literature, 103
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis), 119
Mexico: corrido in, history of, 174; femicide in, 34, 128–32, 135, 137, 211–12; PRI in, 165–66; in Ricas y famosas, 145, 165, 165–69, 166, 167; telecommunications in, Slim and, 173–74, 203; Tlatelolco massacre in, 118
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), 181
Mis documentos (My Documents) (Zambra), 177–78
Movimiento al Socialismo. See MAS
Muñecas (Magnus): extermination in, 50, 52–58, 63; rubber, silicone in, 33, 49–52, 56–57; rubber precedents of, 33, 49; sex dolls in, 33, 50–51, 56–59
Musical Brain, The (Aira), 88
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. See MIDI
My Documents (Mis documentos) (Zambra), 177–78
My Struggle (Knausgård), 220
National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), 24–25
nature-culture, 65, 228; El jardín de Nora and, 76–79, 99, 200; in Latin Americanism, 102–3; new materialism and, 19, 28, 48, 59; in transcultural materialism, 13, 79, 201–2, 224–25
Nazi Literature in the Americas (La literatura nazi en América) (Bolaño), 54, 113
Nazism, 7, 162, 197, 217, 222, 232n10; Adorno and Horkheimer on, 130–31; Bolaño and, 54, 113, 130; cultural inspirations for, 195, 226; Magnus and, 50–55, 57, 63, 242n28; rubber and, 51, 53, 57–58
New Human in Literature, The (Rosendahl Thomsen), 138
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 124
1989, Latin American literature after, 135–37
nonhuman, human and, 228, 253n94; abject communicating, 201; actant and actor in, 207; assemblage of, 19, 22, 70–71, 179–80, 207, 224; coevolution of, 47–49, 64–66, 151; Latour on, 19, 22–23, 27, 41, 53–54, 100; magnitude and scale in, 79; in rubber, 44–46; storifying, 222–23; transcultural materialism critiquing, 199–200, 224–25; in 2666, 132–33
nonhuman agency, 207, 229; animism and, 102–3, 155, 261n18; Bennett on, 28, 35, 271n44; communism and, 204; of computer, Zambra on, 179–80; in Deep Foods, 27–28; in God’s Tea Party, 93, 95–100; in historical materialism, 30–31; in El jardín de Nora, verisimilitude of, 74–76, 84; of language and matter, 138; Latour on, 28–29, 100; Marx and, 149–52, 182; Ortiz on, 27–28, 59; in transcultural materialism, 30–31, 225; in The Vortex, 45; of worms, 271n44
novela de la tierra, 83–84
“Ojo Silva, El” (“Mauricio ‘The Eye’ Silva”) (Bolaño), 115, 117
ontological turn, political, 205–7
Ordóñez, Monserrat, 46–47
Ortiz, Fernando: on ajiaco, 11–12, 80; on beets, 12, 234n26; Coronil on, 7–8, 13, 27, 58, 239n80; Cuban Counterpoint, 7–12, 26–28, 59, 103, 233n17, 234n22, 238n78, 239n80; Cuban politics and, 233n17; “The Human Factors of Cubanity,” 7, 11–12; Latour and, 13–14, 19, 22–23; Magnus compared with, 63; materialism of, 7, 9–14, 19, 26–27, 43, 103; as new materialist precursor, 7, 9–14, 19, 27; on nonhuman agency, 27–28, 59; Ponte and, 22, 24, 26; on radio, 233n14; on sugar, 7–12, 27–28, 49, 59, 103, 238n78; on tobacco, 7–12, 27–28, 42, 49, 59, 67, 103, 238n78; on transculturación, 3, 7–12, 49, 80–81, 199, 224–26
Our Lady of the Assassins (La Virgen de los sicarios) (Vallejo), 156
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party) (PRI), 165–66
Patagonia, indigenous extermination in, 67–68, 246n1
Pearl Button, The (El botón de Nácar) (film), 271n43
Pelota de letras (stand-up act), 176–77
Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 11
Politics of Nature (Latour), 237n59
Ponte, Antonio José, 38, 63; Cuban Special Period and, 14–18, 23, 25; Deep Foods, 14–27, 99; exile of, 14–15; Lezama Lima and, 17, 21–22, 24; Marré and, 24–25; materialism of, 21–23, 25–26, 67; origenismo and, 17, 235n38; Ortiz and, 22, 24, 26. See also Deep Foods
Povinelli, Elizabeth, 101–2
Powers of Horror, The (Kristeva), 118
Putas asesinas (Bolaño), 119
raw material, 43, 224; Bolívar on, 203; labor, exploitation of, and, 64–65; Latin American literary turn to, 57, 60; Marx on, 63–66, 201–2; in supply chains, 208–9
real maravilloso (magical realism), 74, 111
rebaño negro (black flock), 44
“Recuerdos de un computador personal” (Zambra), 178, 183–84
Red Queen (fictional character), 250n62
reification, digital, 181
“Return, The “ (“El retorno”)(Bolaño), 119–21
Rivera, José Eustasio, 59; transcultural materialism of, 60, 62–63, 65, 67; The Vortex, 33, 44–50, 83, 151, 182, 200, 242n18. See also Vortex, The
Rosendahl Thomsen, Mads, 107, 138
Routledge Concise History of World Literature, The (D’haen), 106–7
rubber: in Amazon basin, extraction of, 32–33, 43–45, 44, 57–58, 200, 213, 223; in assemblage, 45–46; balls of, 43–44, 44, 52, 64; as black flock, 44; coevolution with, 48–49, 64; Knausgård on, 36, 220, 222; Magnus on, 33, 49–52, 56–57; native extermination, exploitation, and, 50–51; Nazism and, 51, 53, 57–58; potatoes compared with, 47; in The Vortex, 44–46, 48–49, 182, 200. See also raw material
Sancho Panza (fictional character), 137
San Jose, California, 174
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 43
science and technology studies (STS), 205
Shallows, The (Carr), 182
Shatapatha Brahmana, 24–25
Silva, José Asunción, 165, 261n24; After-Dinner Conversation, 34–35, 145, 155–56; in Almas en pena, chapolas negras, 35, 145, 156–58, 262n28; animism of, 155, 261n18; credit, debt, and, 157–58; hyperfetishism of, 34–35, 145, 152–60, 261n18; “Mariposas,” 242n20; modernismo and, 151, 157–58; sister of, 153, 154; “The Voice of Things,” 152–55, 261n18
Social History of Rubber, A (Tully), 51
sociotechnical imaginaries, 205, 218
software, 37, 188, 198, 213, 218–19; iPhoto, 180; lock-in of, 181; Microsoft Windows, 176, 178, 182; Microsoft Word, 212
speculative leftism, 205–7
“Story of Electronics, The” (video), 217
Story of My Teeth, The (Luiselli), 136
Suárez, José Antonio, 137
sublation (Aufhebung), 4, 100
Tea Party (political movement), 89, 94, 98
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 85
Ten Little Indians (Christie), 213
Testamento geométrico (Dieste), 130
Te vendo un perro (Villalobos), 259n1
Time, Labor, and Social Domination (Postone), 259n3
Toá (Uribe Piedrahita), 33, 49
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein), 25–26
transculturación (transculturation), 222; Monasterios on, 79–81, 248n33; Ortiz on, 3, 7–12, 49, 80–81, 199, 224–26; Pratt on, 7, 9; tobacco, sugar, and, 7–8
Tropical Animal (Gutiérrez), 136
2666 (Bolaño), 117, 178; bodies and, 121–25, 132–33; computers in, 211–12; corpses in, 125, 128–29, 132; femicide in, 34, 115, 128, 130–32, 135, 137, 211–12; nonhuman allusions in, 132–33
United Fruit Company, 194, 228
“United Fruit Company, The” (Neruda), 60
University of California, Berkeley, 188
Uribe Piedrahita, César, 33, 49, 51
Vallejo, Fernando, 165, 202; Almas en pena, chapolas negras, 35, 145, 156–58, 262n28; Casablanca la bella, 35, 145, 159–60; Our Lady of the Assassins, 156
value: exchange and use, 144, 148–51, 164, 168, 260n8; misuse, 168–69; surplus, 64, 172, 208, 210, 218
Vibrant Matter (Bennett), 22
Villalobos, Juan Pablo, 259n1
Villena Alvarado, Marcelo, 74, 77, 81
Virgen de los sicarios, La (Our Lady of the Assassins) (Vallejo), 156
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 86–87
“Voice of Things, The” (“La voz de las cosas”) (Silva), 152–55, 261n18
Vortex, The (La vorágine) (J. E. Rivera), 33, 83, 151; black flock in, 44; eco-critical readings of, 45–46; feathers in, 46–48; rubber in, 44–46, 48–49, 182, 200; socio-critical readings of, 45–46; translations of, 45, 242n18
“voz de las cosas, La” (“The Voice of Things”) (Silva), 152–55, 261n18
Wallerstein, Immanuel, 114
Waste Land (documentary), 217
We Have Never Been Modern (Latour), 65
Whitehead, Alfred North, 101
Wiethüchter, Blanca, 88, 102; holes and, 73–76, 84–85, 247n14; El jardín de Nora, 33–34, 68–69, 71–87, 93, 95–96, 99–101, 200, 248n37. See also jardín de Nora, El
Williams, Raymond L., 229
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 4, 25–26
World Literature: as autotelic, 106–10; Bolaño and, 113–15, 117–19, 121–24, 127, 129–30, 135; corpse, orientation toward, for, 34, 105–6, 111–12, 138–39, 200–201; extractivism and, 36, 219; God’s Tea Party and, 90–91, 94, 250n60; idealism in, materialism countering, 34, 116–17; Latin Americanism and, 5–6, 201; Marx and Engels on, 137, 209; sociotechnical imaginaries and, 205, 218; transcultural materialism for, 37, 105, 137–39, 201; Wallerstein and, 114
You Are Not a Gadget (Lanier), 181–82
YUMA, or the Land of Friends (artwork), 215, 215–16
Zambra, Alejandro, 189; Bonsái, 177, 184–85; as Chilean, 182–83, 185–86; digital lock-in and, 181; digital obsolescence and, 177–79, 186, 211; extractivism and, 181–82, 210, 216; “Historia de un computador,” 178–83, 186, 210, 216; love and, 35, 177–79, 181, 183–85, 204; Mis documentos, 177–78; nonhuman agency and, 179–80; oeuvre of, 177; on personal computer, 35, 177–84, 186, 210–11; “Recuerdos de un computador personal,” 178, 183–84; on sleep, 182–83