The issue explores the ways in which social practices and aesthetic objects mobilize affective dispositions and politics, focusing specifically on the Latin American region. The articles analyze the interplay of multiple bodies - both individual and social, human and non-human, natural and cultural, textual and visual - and examine how affects are mobilized in a variety of ways and through different media. By examining the mobilization of affects as relational, social, and situated dynamics, the authors aim to shed light on the particular situatedness of Latin America.

The articles in this issue focus on how specific aesthetic modes, such as melodrama or detachment, trigger affective intensities between the work of art and the reader/viewer, and how these affects can subsequently enhance critical thought and transformative political agency. Agency is not seen as an intentional or rational capacity, but rather as a force that is distributed across multiple bodies and can be disseminated in different degrees.

Language: English

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