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Matías di Benedetto

2 papers in the library · publishing 2022-2023

Papers

Visiones y visualidades en Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía de César Calvo

Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana July 26, 2023 Matías di Benedetto

The article critically examines César Calvo's book *Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía* by focusing on the interplay between literature and visual arts—specifically the paintings of César Calvo de Araújo, engravings by Francisco Mariotti, and photographs by Augusto Falconi—as a constructive principle that multiplies media and materials within the work. The unifying practice, which both critiques artistic specificity as a foundation of aesthetic autonomy and exposes the Amazonian archive, is the trance state induced by ayahuasca ingestion. This yields a literary form tied to a visual regime based on perceptual disruptions, around which the visual practices embedded in the fiction revolve.

JUGOS DAÑADOS DEL SAN PEDRO EN LA VIOLENCIA DEL TIEMPO DE MIGUEL GUTIÉRREZ

Perífrasis Revista de Literatura Teoría y Crítica August 29, 2022 Matías di Benedetto

A novel uses the San Pedro cactus to depict shamanic healing and the ecstasy from its consumption as both a chemical and aesthetic process. This ecstasy has somatic-political effects and experimental literary qualities. The trance-induced visions and methods of narrating history lead to a shamanic theory of montage.