{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 7 The Vanishing Frame","description":"In this episode, Ryan is joined by Dr. Eugenio Di Stefano, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Di Stefano is the author of The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era, published in 2018 by the University of Texas Press. The Vanishing Frame shows that as Latin American culture has become increasingly influenced by the politics of the human-rights movement, contemporary writers, visual artists, and critics have sought to \u201celiminate the division between art and life\u2026so that the pain of the victim [of dictatorial violence and torture] can somehow become that of the reader or the spectator.\u201d Rather than promoting freedom or justice, however, this \u201cvanishing\u201d of the artistic frame is \u2013 the book contends \u2013 compatible with the logic of neoliberalism, and therefore complicit with a system that intensifies economic inequality, injustice, and un-freedom. To identify alternatives to this free-market consensus, the book points to recent works by figures like Fernando Botero and Roberto Bola\u00f1o, works that insist on the autonomy of the work of art, and therefore on the importance of the artist\u2019s intention, meaning, and political ideology rather on than the experience of the audience. Here Di Stefano unpacks these provocative claims, as well as describing the genesis of his latest collaborative project, the online Latin American cultural journal FORMA. ","author_name":"Humanities on the High Plains","author_url":"http:\/\/www.humanitiesonthehighplains.com","html":"