Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Jul 2023)
Displaced and offline conexions: postmodernity, new media and digital magazines in Cuba
Abstract
The article examines three digital cultural magazines that were illegally published in Cuba between 2005 and 2010, with the aim of identify and analyze the “outdated” forms of appropriation of one of the most decisive dimensions of the modern project: technological innovation. From an offline environment, these e-zines forged in Cuba a distribution circuit for materials that showed the impact of new media in art and literature, while at the same time they generated a space for the dissemination of texts that provided conceptual tools for understand the effects of this impact. In this way, the question of cultural mediatization –central in the debate on postmodernity– was becoming an object of discourse within a Cuban cultural field that still in the first decade of the 21st century was characterized by its limited access to the media.
