About
My research interests include Latin American Studies, modern and contemporary continental philosophy and aesthetic thought. I received my MA degree in 2012 from ARCIS University (University of Arts and Social Sciences, Chile). My master thesis, entitled Paradox of Art in the Consensus Epoch. Art and Democracy in Chile and Latin America (2012), addressed the nation-states’ recent transformations due to neoliberal globalization, and interrogated the consequences of this neoliberal model for the field of cultural production. I researched, specifically, the impact of this radical turn in visual arts. I proposed that this radical turn brought about a number of paradoxes for the traditional political thinking related to the practices of art. In other words, the field of visual arts had to rethink its inherent politics within this historical context, having as alterative to become a post-political practice or to be consensual (official) and fits within the pervasive imperatives of modernization and globalization.
Currently, I am working in the final part of my Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy, entitled Politics of anonymity in Latin America Cinema. My research has taken place in a double degree program in Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) and Leiden University (Netherlands). This research project seeks to address the relationship between cinema and political philosophy in Latin America from the end of XIX century to the second half of XX. For this relationship we refer both to the way in which a series of concepts coming out of the field of political philosophy have worked as a matrix of interpretation for cinematographic production; and to those political concepts which have been the basis of theorizations and works of Latin American filmmakers themselves. In this first Ph.D research, I have realized but it remains as a pending problem in my academics interest, the relevance of the structural relationship between writing, image, and politics in the early configuration of the national- states in the region. This political articulation between image and writing in the context of configuration of the modern states defines the main problem of my research statement for the Ph.D Program in Literature and Romance Languages at University of Michigan.
