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This essay studies the cultural consequences that the spread of paper money had in late nineteenth-century Brazil. First, I examine how these tensions are called into question through the analysis of a political scandal that took place in Rio de Janeiro, in 1900, concerning a two thousand reales banknote. Second, I offer a close reading of Machado de Assis' "Anedota pecuniária", a short-story included in Histórias sem data (1884). My goal is to interrogate the relation between paper money and the economy of credit work, and the narrative devices of literary fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a question about the "diasporic" position of certain authors of cultural criticism in Latin America, always halfway between academic affiliation and a kind of fractious position regarding their increasingly bureaucratized practices of knowledge administration, this paper proposes a reading of three representative texts by the Brazilian-Argentine critic Raul Antelo: Crítica acéfala, Archifilologías latinoamericanas. Lecturas tras el agotamiento and A ruinologia. These strange and problematic texts seem to be articulated from a position that not only (post)critically revises the foundations of more conventional criticism, but also moves toward the behavior of the most radical bids of artistic conceptualism; in other words, in them criticism becomes an act: intervention. And therein lies its forceful emergence in the framework of contemporary literary and cultural studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yoga is an ancient South Asian philosophical system associated with an extensive set of physical, mental, and religious practices. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the forms of yoga's production-consumption-identity and cultural regulation within the framework of Cultural Studies. This paper is based on the findings of an Evidence Map on Yoga and corroborates the fact that yoga is being consumed as a cultural symbol and has mushroomed into a heterogeneous and deregulated market, in which many competing organizations promote different yoga styles and levels of certifications. Yoga has become entangled with economic and political logics and the commodification/branding process has transformed it from an Asian soul-searching practice into an industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to the crisis suffered by literary criticism in the nineteen seventies and that has extended with even greater force today, it seems useful to return to the approach Borges developed in a paper that was first published in 1953 with the title “El escritor argentino y la tradición” which was later included in the reedition of Discusión in 1957. Here the author analyzes a recurring theme in Hispanoamerican literary studies, the tradition of “South American” bellelettres, especially Argentinean: “I think our tradition is that of all Western culture and I also think we have a right to this tradition which is greater than that of inhabitants of any other Western nation”. The replies were not long in coming. I dare suggest they were a glimpse of the perplexity of today’s reader, who is familiar with other answers, in particular, those of sociology or related fields, such as cultural anthropology, that have proposed that the way to reach the originality and autonomy of Hispanoacamerican literature resides in highlighting the differences that separate us from the Western Cannon. To examine and argue in favor of Borges´ thesis in the framework of the current situation of literary criticism, slowly but seemingly inexorably displaced by cultural studies, especially in university literature departments, is the pretensión of this work, which I hope is free of prejudice although I recognize that they never cease to be present in an undertaking of this type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1965, the journalist Daisy de Galard starts a new project on the French television, called Dim, Dam, Dom. This unconventional show combines the aesthetics of pop culture with several interviews to well-known characters of the French culture, such as Marguerite Duras or Agnès Varda. From a qualitative approach, this paper aims to underline the importance of Daisy de Galard as a pioneer of the French television that was able to see beyond the classic codes of television language. A legacy that has been decisive in the birth of hybrid languages such as reality shows or docufictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how the ownership structure and the alliances between the agents producing serialized fiction for television are linked to the themes and narratives addressed by this type of cultural product. From the political economy of communication and cultural studies, the paper examines the predominant themes in the 100 most watched premiere fictions on open television in Argentina during the decade between 2011 and 2020. It is concluded that there is a wide predominance of universal themes with nonstructural local references, over purely local ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]