SPAN 4600 - [TechnoGhosts, SocialMovements, and Archives in Motion]

Fall. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.

I. Troconis.

This course explores how the digital has shaped narratives of memory in contemporary Latin America. We will look at works of literature, film, and performance that mobilize the digital in order to re-represent and re-activate the past, challenge authorityty, create new forms of political activism, and establish new relationships between bodies. In discussing these works, we will also consider the ethical questions that they ask: Who owns our digital remains? What are the limitations of “hashtag” social movements? How far should we push the boundaries of the body? As we ask these questions, we will revisit key concepts regarding memory in connection with the political events that took place in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century, and consider the digital alongside the emergence of 21st century populism.