The caracol and the beetle. A tension between ideology and form in the EZLN’s literary production
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Durito, social acceleration, zapatista discourse, Marcos
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In this contribution I will concentrate on the relation between ideology and form in the realm of the Zapatista upraising in Chiapas and more specifically in the tales about a character named Durito written by Subcomandante Marcos. For this purpose I will depart from the theoretical insights about the acceleration proposed by the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa (2005), also occasionnaly relating these insights with thoughts of the British-Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman (2000), a thinker who had a major influence on Rosa, and of the French philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky (1983) who, just as Rosa and Bauman do, examines the connection between postmodernity and time. I start with highlighting those elements of the Zapatista uprising that are significant in relation to the theory of Rosa, which I will briefly present in a second part. I will then read the narrative about the beetle Durito in the light of this theory and propose some reflections concerning how form and ideology relate in them.
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