Matías Larramendi-Salvat

I am a PhD student from the Romance Languages and Literatures department. Currently, I am investigating how some of the notions attached to literature are nothing more than a capitalist subsumption of what could be conceived and organized in a very different way. I am interested at looking at practices that problematize language as private property––mainly plagiarism, which, I believe, promotes the idea that words are a resource that we can use to meet our social, aesthetic, and creative needs. Like the poet Washington Cucurto, who promotes stealing verses to other writers, says: “Una idea no es nada si no existe alguien que haga algo con ella.” Moreover, I examine the aesthetic and material production of books that question the intellectual division of labor and the individualistic concept of author.