PIGOTT HALL, ROOM 216
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Guest speaker: Andrew Brown (Washington University in St. Louis, Spanish and Comparative Literature)

In this talk, Brown will review many of the ways Latin American writers have imagined the posthuman as an instrument for navigating complex political and social realities. He will then consider how the Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz-Soldán, in his 2014 science fiction novel Iris, proposes new ways to think about the trope of “Latin American cyborg subjectivity” that go beyond processing dictatorship and problematizing neoliberalism. Brown examines specifically the links between sampling aesthetics and cyborg life.

Andrew Brown is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the influential study Cyborgs in Latin America (2010). He works on issues of technology, science, global popular culture, and Latin American cultural identity. Professor Brown’s articles have appeared in several journals, including Comparative Literature, Hispanic Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, and Science Fiction Studies. His current manuscript examines the aesthetics of sampling and mashups in recent Latin American narrative. He is also editing a collection of essays on Latin American science fiction and critical theory.

Iberian and Latin American Cultures PhD Candidate Anna Marshall Castillo will respond.

Event Sponsor:
Center for Latin American Studies