Oscar del Barco editor: la construcción de una política de la teoría en Ediciones Caldén

STEDILE LUNA, VERÓNICA

Catedral Tomada. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana

University of Pittsburgh

Lugar: Pittsburgh; Año: 2021

In this paper, we look at how theory and publishing practices were intertwined in Argentina between 1967 and 1976. We do so by analyzing ?El hombre y su mundo? [?The Man and His World"], a collection of books directed by Oscar del Barco for Ediciones Caldén (Argentina) during that period. We hold that del Barco´s multifaceted work as editor, translator, compiler, and essayist, created a politics of theory, focusing on two interrelated aspects: 1) a poetics of publishing, with translations of works by political theorists, structuralist and poststructuralist thinkers coming together in a unique collection mediated by del Barco?s critical texts, and 2) a "smuggling" publishing practice ?as texts were selected, translated and shaped into small books from foreign magazines with no copyright permission. We see a performative force in such interrelation of theory and publishing strategies, as ?El hombre y su mundo? made available books through practices and materialities that acted upon what those very books were calling for.