Bøger i Post-Contemporary Interventions serien

Offers an analysis of the complex relationships between history, literature, and nation-building in the modern Latin American context and also takes crucial steps toward the development of a truly comparative inter-American cultural criticism.

This monograph aims to present a new view of the history of postructuralism (heterology) and the origins of postmodernism by analyzing three French theorists: Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.

Views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models.