Re-visiones

Otra imagen para la modernización urbana de la Argentina. El álbum fotográfico Rosario, esa ciudad en los años setenta

Diego Roldán — 2025-04-24

This article studies the photo book Rosario, esa ciudad (1970), published by the Editorial Biblioteca de la Biblioteca Vigil. Based on this corpus, the paper analyzes how these images construct another narrative about the modernization of Rosario in the 1970s. Although these photographs propose a montage of images and words, the aim of the work is to compare them with each other in order to construct views and interpretations that question the center-periphery binomial. First, we develop a critical review of photography as a resource for highlighting urban transformation. Then, we analyze how this set of captures records modernization and configures an alternative urban imagination. Finally, we problematize the hegemonic narratives of urban modernization and their contradictions or complements: traditional, peripheral, popular and segregated.

Post-penélopes: imagen, arquetipo y repetición en la cultura visual contemporánea.

Miguel Rivas Venegas — 2025-07-14

This article analyzes the continuity of the Urtyp (archetype) of Homeric Penelope as a passive woman/waiting woman. Following a methodology of cultural and visual studies akin to the thinking of Aby Warburg and his concept of the afterlife of images (nachleben), it examines the patriarchal archetypes of suitable/unsuitable women as cultural survivals that “resonate” (Calasso 1988: 36) and persist in models indebted to Homeric epic and Hellenic mythological tradition. Via the here deployed notion of post-Penelopes, such research situates representations of women depicted as “dead matter” (Theweleit 1987; 2019), as genuine “tricked myths” of transnational and transtemporal patriarchy (Dumézil 1968: 234), surviving “stocks” (Bourdieu 2000: 9–10) that manifest belatedly and shape the patriarchal worldview through the repetition of images linked to a mythologem (Kèrenyi 2012) that transcends and precedes them.

Gilles Deleuze and experimental writing

Miguel Alfonso Bouhaben — 2025-07-18

The objective of this research is to present a set of experimental writing exercises based on the thought of Gilles Deleuze. These exercises are part of a "book in progress" entitled Delirating Deleuze, which addresses the critique of hegemonic models of writing and the search for alternatives to multimodal, performative, and transdisciplinary writing. The book is provisionally divided into three sections. "Delirating the Place" of Writing explores the meaning of a text through its position in the blank space of the page (minor text, overtext, inverted text). "Delirating the Form" of Writing addresses the significative power of the graphic form of the word (text-connectivity, text-cartography). "Delirating the Matter" of Writing investigates experimental practices of material mutation of texts (text-mutation).

Becoming a dodecahedron

Nicholas F. Callaway — 2025-07-08

Engineer Eduardo Torroja is best known for his pioneering work with concrete, in particular through his role in major works of architecture and civil engineering during the Second Spanish Republic. Although his work from after the Spanish Civil War is less known, it was under Franco that he was able to consolidate his influence over the construction industry in Spain. Nevertheless, the issue of his political convictions is full of nuances and dualities. This article brings together information that has till now appeared in disparate publications and documents. What emerges is a multifaceted portrait of Torroja in the postwar period, paying special attention to his trips abroad – from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, to the divided Berlin of the Cold War, to Stalin’s Moscow – as well as the religious buildings he designed in the Alto Ribagorzana region as part of the Franco regime’s water management policies.

Kafka, toward an Artistic Research

Roberto Herrero García — 2025-07-18

In 1975, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari released Kafka, toward a Minor Literature, a book in which they defined the revolutionary conditions of the literature written by a minority within the language of the majority in power. In 2024, we retype their words into a .doc file and we rewrite them in “suggesting” mode, replacing the concept of “Minor Literature” with the one of “Artistic research”. By doing so, we propose an academic writing exercise based on the displacement and replacement of words; a gesture based on appropriation that breaks up and interacts with the text. The writing signs coexist between these words, as well as the trace of each hand that produced it. The result is an interpretative transcription that suggests an analogy between the Minor Literature proposed by Deleuze and Guattari and Artistic Research at art schools.

Generating spaces of encounter and knowledge. Daniel Kötter audiovisual work

Chus Domínguez Sánchez — 2025-07-17

This article explores the audiovisual work of German artist Daniel Kötter, focusing on his radical approach to space and his processual methodology, which combines collective research, local collaborations, and experimental documentary practices. Through a detailed analysis of Hashti Tehran (2017)—a project examining the peripheries of Tehran—the study highlights how Kötter’s work generates situated knowledge by intertwining discursive, visual, and social dimensions. His films transcend traditional urban narratives, emphasizing marginalized spaces as sites of political and ecological transformation. By engaging with local agents and fostering interdisciplinary dialogues, Kötter’s practice challenges conventional spatial epistemologies, offering a framework for understanding contemporary urban crises. The article situates his work within broader debates in artistic research, critical geography, and experimental filmmaking, drawing on theorists like Edward Soja and Félix Guattari to underscore its political and aesthetic significance.

Beyond the visible

Catarina Botelho — 2025-09-25

For a long time, lesbians were practically invisible in cities on the Iberian Peninsula. They barely had places or spaces of their own, and were seldom associated with images or imageries. In the Spanish State, “franquismo” contributed greatly to this invisibility. But the occupation of urban space by an identity is essential for it to be constructed as a political and social subject. After the Transition, with the first groups of lesbian feminist activists, and during the 1980s and 1990s, lesbians began a process of transforming their condition of invisibility, accompanied by a drive for self-representation, within the streets of cities such as Bilbao, Barcelona and Madrid. These photos are mainly in the possession of the photographers and those who appear in them, inside boxes or stored away in the closet. In this article, we begin to shed light on them, analysing and reflecting on their effects today, opening up new urban counter-imageries in the context of the Peninsula

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: sicalíptica-dada-queer

Gloria G. Durán — 2025-09-18

This article is an attempt to articulate the look at the historical avant-garde from a queer methodology, which challenges the perspectives of the classical historiographic narrative, in the words of José Esteban Muñoz is «looking at the past again for the first time». It seeks to break down rigid arguments, presenting the great lady of Dadaism, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, as a personality of the cultural scene of the early twentieth century. Closer to popular culture, to mass spectacles, to the European and American green wave, than to the usual discourses of artistic contexts and dynamite avant-garde groups, and rescuing a queer personality avant la lettre, a blurred, elusive personality, very difficult to define, who manages to assume that implausible balance of the sicalipsis.

Aerial root rights in aesthetic heterotopias

Itandehui Nahielly Cruz Méndez — 2025-09-17

This text addresses processes of collaborative imagination in autonomous normative systems, which, through aesthetic practices, have created aerial root rights to imagine and organize heterotopic spaces of life. I present the case of the performance practices carried out in the Zapotec community of Santiago Xanica, in Oaxaca. This practices fostered a reconfiguration of the sensible and activated a political imagination that made local historical problems visible and reorganized the intersubjective relationships that led the participants of the Sembrando Teatro group to peacefully take over Finca Alemania to create an autonomous educational center.

Becoming-with. Multispecies recovery epidemic

María C. Ramos — 2025-09-24

This article deals with affirmative politics that revolve around new ways of doing-with, of becoming-with, in the form of sympoiesis between sentient creatures that inhabit the margins of a wounded world. Thus, an interspecies relationship is experienced with a colony of five rescued rats with whom a bond has been established, generating spaces of coexistence, collective, colony and encounter, paying attention to that which connects a diversity of alternative bodies bruised, sexualised, naturalised and devalued by the dominant hegemonic tradition. In this way, new forms of relationality and affectivity are composed that can be translated as urgent means of revolution, transformation and recuperation that make affects an artistic practice of resistance and restoration of refuges for dissident othernesses.

The shop window as a political loudspeaker. Between the commodification of the gaze and resistance

Beatriz Sánchez Santidrián — 2025-09-26

Due to its highly mediatic character and its centrality in the urban space, the intervened shop window functions as a device complicit in the economy of attention, halfway between an instrument of ideological expression and a form of cultural and social resistance. By examining cases such as the suffragette protests, the Kristallnacht, the propaganda strategies of authoritarian regimes and the actions of environmental movements, the numerous episodes of shop window attacks or manipulations can be analyzed around two distinct behaviors in relation to this device: one, of concealment; the other, of exhibition. This study aims to determine whether these actions subvert the shop window’s mercantile function or ultimately reinforce it. Although seemingly opposite, they represent two sides of the same coin.

What Is Done at the Same Time: Threading Images of Women’s Work

Marta Labad — 2025-09-26

Reseña de Ritmos. Imágenes del trabajo femenino, exposición que tuvo lugar en el Espacio D del Museo Reina Sofía entre el 21 de marzo y el 13 de junio de 2025. Comisariada por Selina Blasco, Maite Garbayo y María Rosón. La exposición reunía imágenes del archivo de la Biblioteca y el Centro de Documentación publicadas en la prensa gráfica y otros objetos librescos desde los años veinte hasta la posguerra.