Pablo Baler
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and current resident of Los Angeles, U.S., Pablo Baler is a novelist, art critic, and scholar who teaches Latin-American Literature, as well as Visual Arts, Literary Theory, and Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles.
In addition to his academic work as teacher and scholar, Baler has published extensively in newspapers and magazines, for the most part in Argentina and the U.S. (Sculpture, Clarín, Museum, Buenos Aires Herald, and La Opinion among others) and has worked as news-writer for Univision/San Francisco.
A graduate from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, Baler is the author of the award winning novel Circa (Ed. Galerna, 1999) as well as Chabrancán (Ediciones del Camino, 2020) and El lejano desoriente (bitácora de la felicidad (Rialta Ed., 2022). He is also the author of Los Sentidos de la distorsión: fantasias epistemológicas del neobarroco latinoamericano (Ed. Corregidor, 2009, Palgrave, 2016, Almenara, 2019), a highly cited essay on neobaroque aesthetics. In addition, Baler is the editor of and contributor to The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century (2013, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), a collection of essays written by a broad range of authors about the aesthetic sensibility that will define our times. Baler’s latest collection of short stories, La burocracia mandarina, was published by Lumme Editor in San Paulo, Brazil (2013) and in Portuguese translation in 2017.
Pablo Baler is currently working on an essay on the general interdisciplinary field of ethics and aesthetics titled Stretches of the Imagination.
website: www.pablobaler.com
In addition to his academic work as teacher and scholar, Baler has published extensively in newspapers and magazines, for the most part in Argentina and the U.S. (Sculpture, Clarín, Museum, Buenos Aires Herald, and La Opinion among others) and has worked as news-writer for Univision/San Francisco.
A graduate from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, Baler is the author of the award winning novel Circa (Ed. Galerna, 1999) as well as Chabrancán (Ediciones del Camino, 2020) and El lejano desoriente (bitácora de la felicidad (Rialta Ed., 2022). He is also the author of Los Sentidos de la distorsión: fantasias epistemológicas del neobarroco latinoamericano (Ed. Corregidor, 2009, Palgrave, 2016, Almenara, 2019), a highly cited essay on neobaroque aesthetics. In addition, Baler is the editor of and contributor to The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century (2013, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), a collection of essays written by a broad range of authors about the aesthetic sensibility that will define our times. Baler’s latest collection of short stories, La burocracia mandarina, was published by Lumme Editor in San Paulo, Brazil (2013) and in Portuguese translation in 2017.
Pablo Baler is currently working on an essay on the general interdisciplinary field of ethics and aesthetics titled Stretches of the Imagination.
website: www.pablobaler.com
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During the early decades of the 20th century, the work of such authors as Eugeni d’Ors, Alfonso Reyes, and Alejo Carpentier initiated a critical trend that reclaimed the logic and aesthetics of the historical baroque as a way to approach a broad range of artistic expressions in Latin America. This theoretical framework, summarized in the general idea of the “Neo-baroque”, explored the logic of instability, ambiguity, and transformation that characterized baroque aesthetics as appropriated in 20th century Latin America. Through this perspective, a broad range of movements have been studied, from Modernism to the experimental avant-garde, from the formal fantasies of Magical Realism to the explosion of the signifier in the so-called poets of the Neo-baroque school.
As we embark on the third decade of the 21st century, we recognize the tectonic stresses and paradigm shifts that are shaping the literary and artistic production coming out of Latin America. This globalized, virtualized, de-territorialized, torn-apart, and reconfigurable century is setting the stage for renewed challenges that require new conceptualizations. It is time to expand our understanding of what and where Latin America is and, therefore, problematize the ways in which we approach the art produced in the midst of this fluid, paradoxical, and always-changing geo-symbolic coordinate.
For this Special Issue of Humanities, we want to offer an opportunity to engage with the critical consciousness gained by these 21st century instabilities and to experiment with innovative methodological and hermeneutic approaches. In brief, we propose to re-energize the impetus of a skewed, anamorphic Neo-baroque perspective in order to explore new ways of thinking from, through, and about current literary and visual production in a “Latin America” we now conceive as a territory in accelerated flux, conditioned by new contradictory historical, cultural, and political forces.
Prof. Pablo Baler
Guest Editor
obra temprana de Carlos Fuentes, Aura (1962), a la luz del discurso crítico
ofrecido por sus primeras obras teóricas. Carlos Fuentes, como tantos otros autores fundacionales del boom latinoamericano, pertenece a una tradición de escritores que articularon la poética que subyace a sus propios textos, ofreciendo así otro camino alternativo de acceso a sus ficciones. Aura, la alucinada nouvelle de lo íntimo y lo sobrenatural, se enriquece desde las ideas propuestas en el opúsculo teórico La nueva novela hispanoamericana (1969). La aspiración revolucionara expresada en este texto se cifra en una visión Bakhtiniana, dialógica, del lenguaje literario. Esta atomización lingüística refleja la exploración de un desorden más profundo: el del espacio y el tiempo. Algunas de las preguntas aquí ensayadas arrojan luz sobre cuestiones más vastas del quehacer literario: tal como la relación entre teoría literaria y escritura creativa, entre filosofía y literatura, y por sobre todo, una cuestión central a la sensibilidad del Boom; la relación entre realidad, representación y lenguaje.
The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel Ed. by Roberto Cantú - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, November, 2015
During the early decades of the 20th century, the work of such authors as Eugeni d’Ors, Alfonso Reyes, and Alejo Carpentier initiated a critical trend that reclaimed the logic and aesthetics of the historical baroque as a way to approach a broad range of artistic expressions in Latin America. This theoretical framework, summarized in the general idea of the “Neo-baroque”, explored the logic of instability, ambiguity, and transformation that characterized baroque aesthetics as appropriated in 20th century Latin America. Through this perspective, a broad range of movements have been studied, from Modernism to the experimental avant-garde, from the formal fantasies of Magical Realism to the explosion of the signifier in the so-called poets of the Neo-baroque school.
As we embark on the third decade of the 21st century, we recognize the tectonic stresses and paradigm shifts that are shaping the literary and artistic production coming out of Latin America. This globalized, virtualized, de-territorialized, torn-apart, and reconfigurable century is setting the stage for renewed challenges that require new conceptualizations. It is time to expand our understanding of what and where Latin America is and, therefore, problematize the ways in which we approach the art produced in the midst of this fluid, paradoxical, and always-changing geo-symbolic coordinate.
For this Special Issue of Humanities, we want to offer an opportunity to engage with the critical consciousness gained by these 21st century instabilities and to experiment with innovative methodological and hermeneutic approaches. In brief, we propose to re-energize the impetus of a skewed, anamorphic Neo-baroque perspective in order to explore new ways of thinking from, through, and about current literary and visual production in a “Latin America” we now conceive as a territory in accelerated flux, conditioned by new contradictory historical, cultural, and political forces.
Prof. Pablo Baler
Guest Editor
obra temprana de Carlos Fuentes, Aura (1962), a la luz del discurso crítico
ofrecido por sus primeras obras teóricas. Carlos Fuentes, como tantos otros autores fundacionales del boom latinoamericano, pertenece a una tradición de escritores que articularon la poética que subyace a sus propios textos, ofreciendo así otro camino alternativo de acceso a sus ficciones. Aura, la alucinada nouvelle de lo íntimo y lo sobrenatural, se enriquece desde las ideas propuestas en el opúsculo teórico La nueva novela hispanoamericana (1969). La aspiración revolucionara expresada en este texto se cifra en una visión Bakhtiniana, dialógica, del lenguaje literario. Esta atomización lingüística refleja la exploración de un desorden más profundo: el del espacio y el tiempo. Algunas de las preguntas aquí ensayadas arrojan luz sobre cuestiones más vastas del quehacer literario: tal como la relación entre teoría literaria y escritura creativa, entre filosofía y literatura, y por sobre todo, una cuestión central a la sensibilidad del Boom; la relación entre realidad, representación y lenguaje.
The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel Ed. by Roberto Cantú - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, November, 2015
"Chabrancán es un texto poderoso. Una novela delirante, cómica, siniestra, angustiante, bizarra. Uno sale de esta experiencia, enloquecido, alucinando."
ELSA DRUCAROFF, autora de Checkpoint (Páginas de espuma)
"Pablo Baler logra con Chabrancán el único tipo de escritura apocalíptica que la cultura argentina podría legítimamente permitirse hoy en día."
DAVID WILLIAM FOSTER, autor de Urban Photography in Argentina; Nine Artists of the Post-Dictatorship Era (McFarland Publishing)
"Facundo se encuentra con Cobra en la Pampa de Achala; Severo Sarduy se injerta una oreja en el antebrazo a la manera del artista chipriota Stelarc y escucha las conversaciones del subte bonaerense: las fronteras se borran en el nuevo libro de Pablo Baler, una novela que resume y fagocita la escritura y el arte de una época de extremos, cuando el lenguaje se destapa como el nuevo fundamentalismo".
NÉSTOR DÍAZ DE VILLEGAS, autor de los ensayos de Cubano, demasiado cubano (Bokeh).
"Chabrancán es un texto poderoso. Una novela delirante, cómica, siniestra, angustiante, bizarra. Uno sale de esta experiencia, enloquecido, alucinando."
ELSA DRUCAROFF, autora de Checkpoint (Páginas de espuma)
"Pablo Baler logra con Chabrancán el único tipo de escritura apocalíptica que la cultura argentina podría legítimamente permitirse hoy en día."
DAVID WILLIAM FOSTER, autor de Urban Photography in Argentina; Nine Artists of the Post-Dictatorship Era (McFarland Publishing)
Facundo se encuentra con Cobra en la Pampa de Achala; Severo Sarduy se injerta una oreja en el antebrazo a la manera del artista chipriota Stelarc y escucha las conversaciones del subte bonaerense: las fronteras se borran en el nuevo libro de Pablo Baler, una novela que resume y fagocita la escritura y el arte de una época de extremos, cuando el lenguaje se destapa como el nuevo fundamentalismo.
NÉSTOR DÍAZ DE VILLEGAS, autor de los ensayos de Cubano, demasiado cubano (Bokeh).
Pablo Baler es profesor de literatura latinoamericana en la Universidad Estatal de California, Los Angeles, e International Research Fellow del Centro de Investigación sobre el Arte de la Universidad de Birmingham. También narrador, es el autor de la novela Circa (1999) y del volumen de relatos La burocracia mandarina (2013). Además de Los sentidos de la distorsión (2008), editó la antología The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century (2013). En la actualidad trabaja en una serie de ensayos donde explora las vacilantes tensiones entre ética e imaginación.
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Sumário Oferta El toque maestro I El equilibrista La incontable historia de Jane Stokes Cazador de perlas La grulla Educación Cita a ciegas El círculo de Giotto El lago plateado Hormiga soluble La última palabra Hilachas La burocracia mandarina Aguas Pesca deportiva El reino mágico Buda El enemigo interno Timbre La música Universal McDonald’s Caballero andante Los El torneo de las sombras Fetiche La pirueta Lenguas muertas Bicho Asqueroso El toque maestro II
Special Issue Information
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Cultural Studies & Critical Theory in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2022.
Special Issue Editor: Prof. Pablo Baler
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the early decades of the 20th century, the work of such authors as Eugeni d’Ors, Alfonso Reyes, and Alejo Carpentier initiated a critical trend that reclaimed the logic and aesthetics of the historical baroque as a way to approach a broad range of artistic expressions in Latin America. This theoretical framework, summarized in the general idea of the “Neo-baroque”, explored the logic of instability, ambiguity, and transformation that characterized baroque aesthetics as appropriated in 20th century Latin America. Through this perspective, a broad range of movements have been studied, from Modernism to the experimental avant-garde, from the formal fantasies of Magical Realism to the explosion of the signifier in the so-called poets of the Neo-baroque school.
As we embark on the third decade of the 21st century, we recognize the tectonic stresses and paradigm shifts that are shaping the literary and artistic production coming out of Latin America. This globalized, virtualized, de-territorialized, torn-apart, and reconfigurable century is setting the stage for renewed challenges that require new conceptualizations. It is time to expand our understanding of what and where Latin America is and, therefore, problematize the ways in which we approach the art produced in the midst of this fluid, paradoxical, and always-changing geo-symbolic coordinate.
For this Special Issue of Humanities, we want to offer an opportunity to engage with the critical consciousness gained by these 21st century instabilities and to experiment with innovative methodological and hermeneutic approaches. In brief, we propose to re-energize the impetus of a skewed, anamorphic Neo-baroque perspective in order to explore new ways of thinking from, through, and about current literary and visual production in a “Latin America” we now conceive as a territory in accelerated flux, conditioned by new contradictory historical, cultural, and political forces.
Prof. Pablo Baler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
neo-baroque
baroque aesthetics
literary and artistic production
Latin America
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