It Will Be Difficult or Won?t Be. Challenges of Latin American E-Lit

ANAHÍ ALEJANDRA RÉ

Bergen

Congreso; Platformization and Decolonial E-Lit. Is There Any Chance? ? Electronic Literature Organization 2021 - Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic; 2021

Aarhus University, University of Bergen, Washington State University Vancouver.

This panel will discuss the issue of the platformization of culture from a Latin American perspective and decolonial thinking (Mignolo 2011). Platforms strive on the automated algorithmic administration of access and reproduction of creative works (either text, sound, video, o code-based). The common trait of current platform culture is the maximization of profit by means of garnering data and attention in order to capture more attention (and more data). In this context, is there any space for pursuing artistic digital activism and decolonial e-lit? The four short presentations in this panel will try to answer this question. The panel will be Spanish-English based in a sort of tentative of linguistic decolonization of e-lit field:Platforms that nowadays enable large scale production and distribution of third generation e-lit (Flores 2019), and even this kind of e-lit itself, promote a specific temporality. Doing so they guarantee the permanence of users in social media. What is at stake is clearly our ?available attention? (Stiegler 2012). Following Sitegler?s organological perspective, this presentation will focus on why ?the difficult? (Tisselli and Torres 2020) is and should always be an emancipatory alternative within Latin American poetic industries.