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Paz Soldn
Author(s): Rosario Ramos Gonzlez
Source: MLN, Vol. 118, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 2003), pp. 466-491
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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La "fabula electr6nica"
Respuestas al terror politico
y las utopias informaticas
en Edmundo Paz Soldan
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1 Un ejemplo que debe ser considerado en este sentido es el logrado libro de Hayles,
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics.
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2Ver Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution de Hobart y
Schiffman.
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[E]l Che inscribe, su registro fundacional y epico junto a Fidel Castro. Asi
un medico argentino n6mada y romantico, semiespecializado en alergias,
vale decir, en las marcas siquicas que inscriben sus nerviosas erupciones sobre el
cuerpo y un abogado cubano, reproductor de la ley, se unen en torno a una
utopia para refundar el continente. (126; subrayado nuestro)
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3En Picture theory Mitchell explica directamente que "Images, like histories and
technologies, are our creations, yet also commonly thought to be "out of our
control"-or at least out of someone's control, the question of agency and power being
central to the way images work (6; subrayado nuestro)."
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la vida, los suicidios por los que se dio luz a narradores, tiempos
fabula en los que significativamente se confiaba en la transparen
del lenguaje, cuando se descansaba en la capacidad para reprod
realidades. En t6rminos de la fabulaci6n geografica, es importan
tambien que en Coraz6n tan blanco, la crisis de la voz narrativa se
conjuga durante un viaje a Cuba, lugar donde se debate tan
intensamente el pasado y el futuro posible de la revoluci6n
latinoamericana. En terminos ret6ricos sin embargo, al clausurarse el
primer fragmento onirico, la frase inicial se ha modificado, ha
ocurrido un cambio en el acento del dialogo con los referentes
literarios: "o serd que leo de una vez esa novela cero ganas de estudiar a
dormir el ruido de los vecinos sebas no me encontrara cruzara
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[Y] ahora mi ser digital sera que por eso sera porque se a que te dedicas de
qu6 querfas protegerme una se entera de todo tarde o tarde se a que te
dedicas sera por eso mi cabeza o mi cuerpo mi reino por una cabeza mi
reino por un cuerpo todos los cuerpos el cuerpo conocer la ciudadela que
miedo todo ya me lo contaras es jugar con fuego da miedo que podemos
hacer poca cosa somos digo la punta del ovillo eso si estuvieras de su lado
te dejaba ya mismo [...]. (192)
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