Fragments | Brotes (Journal of Visual Culture & HaFI, 37)

This is the thirty-seventh instalment of a collaborative effort by the Journal of Visual Culture and the Harun Farocki Institut, initiated by the COVID-19 crisis. The call sent to JVC’s editorial board, and a wide selection of previous contributors and members of its extended communities, described the task as follows: “There is a lot of spontaneous, ad hoc opinion-making and premature commentary around, as to be expected. However, the ethics and politics of artistic and theoretical practice to be pursued in this situation should oblige us to stay cautious and to intervene with care in the discussion. As one of JVC’s editors, Brooke Belisle, explains: ‘We are not looking for sensationalism, but rather, moments of reflection that: make connections between what’s happening now and the larger intellectual contexts that our readership shares; offer small ways to be reflective and to draw on tools we have and things we know instead of just feeling numb and overwhelmed; help serve as intellectual community for one another while we are isolated; support the work of being thoughtful and trying to find/make meaning…which is always a collective endeavour, even if we are forced to be apart.'” TH

 

Excerpt from Fragments | Brotes

By Alexandra Délano Alonso

 

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Excerpt from Fragments | Brotes
Alexandra Délano Alonso is Associate Professor of Global Studies The New School in New York City. Her most recent book is From Here and There: Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States (Oxford University Press). Her articles and essays have been published in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times en Español, El País, Nexos, Letras Libres, among others. Her current projects include Fragments | Brotes and the short film Fragments, with Daniela Alatorre.
August 5th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02