Karen Benezra is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophy and Sciences of Art, at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany. She is the author of Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America.
"""This unique book productively works through a double bind central to both Latin American studies and Marxism: the struggle between structure (accumulation) and agency (subjectivity). The volume consistently attends to and elaborates on such key contexts as socioeconomic formation, formal subsumption, and primitive accumulation. It is rare to find an edited collection of essays that address the same problems from such richly diverse perspectives."" — Emilio Sauri, coeditor of Literature and the Global Contemporary ""This is a splendid volume, the likes of which (to my knowledge) have yet to be published in English. It offers a unique, capacious reading in Latin American culture, politics, and intellectual history by—retooling a phrase from the introduction— rediscovering Marx and Marxist theory from Latin America. Adopting a capacious and overlapping approach, this book will enrich the bibliographies of scholars across a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences."" — Samuel Steinberg, author of Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968"