Wax cylinders, linotypes, photocopies and pixels

Abstract

In this article, I analyze, in the Latin American context, the relationship between poetic language and the different technologies of communication developed since the beginning of the 20th century. I depart from the very first technological innovations of phonographic recordings and photography, until the current ways of networked communication that appear with the Internet. I understand poetry as a frontier for experimentation of language possibilities, in which changes in communication technology are incorporated into the experimental practice. I study the possibilities that different media open for a post-capitalist economy, a break-away with market logics or an economy of squandering.