Contemporaries of the future: the political in Raúl Antelo and Maria Gabriela Llansol gestures

Abstract

This paper proposes a dialogue between the heterogeneous ideas developed by the cultural critic Raúl Antelo and the uncommon work of the writer Maria Gabriela Llansol, in their respective articulations with notions of “Time” and “History”, “Past” and “Future” but, above all, it emphasizes the power of the contemporary in their gestures, which present the criticism and the text as a “political field”. It also intends to articulate some relations with the thoughts of figures such as Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, especially in regarding to the rupture with the historical progress myth and the punctuality that dominates the Western conception of time; to the procedure of assembling the “post-disaster world” fragments in the critical and creative exercise; and to the idea of “childhood as the transcendental homeland of history”.