Debates
Hispanic Issues On Line (HIOL) also publishes Debates, dedicated to an open exchange of ideas related to issues discussed within the Hispanic Issues series and Hispanic Issues On Line. Our aim is to offer a venue for a diversity of views on matters dealing with our disciplines.
- Volume 8: A Polemical Companion to Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media
Edited by Bradley J. Nelson and Julio BaenaIntroduction
Reading Medialogies, Reading Reality: Just Deserts
Julio Baena and Bradley J. NelsonThe Prison-House of Media: Emancipating the Spectator
Luis F. AvilésOn Photography as Inflationary Art
David William FosterHis Panic Issues
John MowittNeither Apocalyptic nor Integrated: Discordant Dialectics
Palmar Álvarez-BlancoThe Medialogy Continuum: From Reality Bleeds to the Performance of the Self
Barbara SimerkaAnonymous Sovereignty vs. Zombie Sovereignty: On the Gaping Ontopolitical Difference Between Early-Modern and Post-Modern Medialogies
David Souto AlcaldeQuixo-Journalism
William ChildersSeeing Cervantes as More than a Soldier, or How to Reframe our Portrait of the Artist
Rachel SchmidtThe Parergon for Parergonal Critique: On David Castillo and William Egginton’s Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media
Alberto MoreirasThe Screen Behind the Screen: A Penultimate Response to a Polemical Companion
David Castillo and William Egginton
Afterword
Cervantine Fiction, Inflationary Media, and Reality Literacy
Nicholas Spadaccini and Timothy Frye - Volume 7: A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates
Edited by Katarzyna Beilin and William ViestenzThe present "debate" is meant to be read in conjunction with Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates, edited by Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. (Available in hardcover, paperback and ebook)
Prelude
- Iberian Studies for a Change: Chasing Boundaries of Life
Katarzyna Beilin - Telling Worldly Stories in a More-than-Human World (or How to Overcome Humanist Orthodoxies in Iberian Cultural Criticism)
Daniel Ares López - Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers
John Beusterien - Cultivating the Square: Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid
Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson - Happiness
Eugenia Afinoguénova - Spanish Cultural and Literary Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene
Luis I. Prádanos - A Note on the Culture of Biotechnology in Contemporary Spain
Sainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna Beilin - Accounting for Violence, Counting the Dead: The Civil War and Spain's Political Present
Sebastiaan Faber - Nunca Máis: Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige Disaster
John H. Trevathan
Polemics
- Debating Ourselves; Towards the Garden Cities
Katarzyna Beilin - Exploring the Political Ecology of Iberian Studies
Luis I. Prádanos - An Exemplary Iberian Peninsula for an Ethics of Life
John Beusterien - The Ecological Imperative of Urban Cultural Studies
Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson - The Community to Come: Reconsidering Democracy by Way of the Ethics of Life
William Viestenz - Back to Alienation
Eugenia Afinoguénova - Material Semiotics, Political Ecologies, Ethics of Life and the Renewed Potential of the Humanities to Describe and Shape the World in the Anthropocene
Daniel Ares López - Literature as Ecological Thought: Mind the Metaphor
Juan F. Egea - Opening Black Boxes in Iberian Debates on Life
John H. Trevathan - Dam Novels: Drowned Memory and Disposable Communities
Martín López-Vega - Matters of Concern: Survival Strategies
Sebastiaan Faber - Assisted Suicide and Academic Suicide
Paul Begin - Keeping the Humanities Alive by Transforming It: A Co-op Conclusion
Daniel Ares López, Katarzyna Beilin, John Beusterien, Luis I. Prádanos, Sainath Suryanaryanan and William Viestenz
- Iberian Studies for a Change: Chasing Boundaries of Life
- Volume 6: The Place of Hispanic Linguistics and Literary/Cultural Studies: Current Debates on Liberal Education
Edited by Francisco Ocampo and Heather MawhineyIn memory of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (1967–2016)
Introduction
Two Metatheories and the Relation Between Hispanic Linguistics and Literary/Cultural Studies in the American University
Francisco Ocampo- Hispanic Linguistics in North America: How We Got Here and Where We Go Now
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach - Hispanic Linguistics at a Crossroads
Milton M. Azevedo - Lines of Flight in Hispanic Linguistics
José del Valle - The Elephant in the Room: The Hierarchical Division of Spoken and Written "Grammars"
Máximo Rafael Salaberry - New Directions in Iberian Cultural Studies? (Gloto)political Geographies of Peninsular Hispanism After 2008
Germán Labrador Méndez - The Place of Hispanic Linguistics in Language Departments: A Call to a Broader Perspective on Our Disciplines
Timothy L. Face - Hispanism and Humanitas in the Market University
David R. Castillo and William Egginton
Afterword
Hispanic Studies, Disciplinary Dialogues, and the Crises of the Humanities
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini - Hispanic Linguistics in North America: How We Got Here and Where We Go Now
- Volume 5: Exile, Intellectuals, and the Memory Wars
Edited by Luis Martín-Estudillo and Megan CorbinIntroduction: Exile, Intellectuals, and the Memory Wars
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Megan CorbinAriel Dorfman: The Residue of Hope after Public Personae Construction
Hernán VidalSeductive Narratives: On Human Rights, Bestsellers, and Hope
Juliet LyndDorfman and Vidal: Some Insights on Political Theater and Human Rights
Carlos Vargas-SalgadoFalse Parity and the Politics of Amnesia
Joshua Lund and Dierdra Reber
- Volume 4: (Re)reading Gracián in a Self-Made World
Edited by Nicholas Spadaccini and Scott EhrenburgIntroduction: Strategies for Survival in a Self-Made World: (Re)reading Gracián
Nicholas Spadaccini and Scott EhrenburgBaroque Subjectivity and the Modern Fractured Self
Justin ButlerDissecting Rationalism: A Proposition to Recontextualize Gracián’s Techné of Prudence
David R. CastilloPerverse Currency
Bradley NelsonThe Reality of Caudal (A Brief and Admiring Response to Justin Butler)
William Egginton
- Volume 3: On Photography, History, and Memory in Spain
Edited by Maria NilssonIntroduction: On Photography, History, and Memory in Spain
Maria NilssonCommodifying Place and Time: Photography, Memory, and Media Cultures Around 1850
Rebecca HaidtRemembering Capa: Spain and the Legacy of Gerda Taro, 1936-37
Hanno HardtStills of Mauthausen: The Photographic Memoirs of Nazi Camp Survivor Francesc Boix
Maureen Tobin StanleyTravels in History Through Memory: Photography and the Restoration of the Past
Txetxu AguadoNueva Lente, Kracauer and the Historical Avant-Garde
Susan LarsonEncounters With the Unsightly: Reading (AIDS) History, Photography, and the Obscene
Patricia Keller and Jonathan Snyder
Afterword: On Referentiality, Dissent, and the Inescapability of Context
Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones - Volume 2: Feminismos latinoamericanos
Edited by Ana ForcinitoDebate: Hacia una apertura de los Estudios Feministas Latinoamericanistas en los departamentos/programas de español y portugués en Estados Unidos
Hernán VidalImagining New Identities and Communities for Feminisms in the Americas
Cynthia TompkinsFeminismos latinoamericanos y derechos humanos: términos comparativos
Hernán VidalLatin America, Feminism, and Human Rights: Response to Vidal and Tompkins
Amy KaminskyDerechos Humanos, mujeres y feminismos
Ana Forcinito
- Volume 1: Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics, and Literature
Edited by Francisco OcampoWe are pleased to initiate these “debates” with an essay by Eduardo Subirats in which he presents a strong critique of certain trends within Cultural Studies and advocates for the reactivation of Critical Theory. Also included are four additional brief reflections on the first issue of HIOL (Debating Hispanic Studies: Reflections on Our Discipline) and a follow up mini symposium on the same topic.
Las poéticas colonizadas de América Latina
Eduardo SubiratsCrossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics, and Literature
Francisco Ocampo and Ana ForcinitoNotes on a Scandal (or Two)
David CastilloTowards Queering the Curriculum
David William FosterThoughts on “Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics and Literature”
José Ignacio Hualde(After)Thoughts on the State of Hispanic Linguistics
John M. Lipski