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Piratas, azotes y brujas: subjetividades contemporáneas en las culturas digitales en Venezuela (2006-2017)

Rangel Manrique, Emily Rocio
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9212-1162
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658425950773971

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
This dissertation maps out the formation of digital cultures that express the mutations of subjectivity and new forms of contemporary violence in Venezuela between 2006 and 2017. It aims to examine the emergence of social practices through which subjects mediate between their material and symbolic exclusion and digital technologies. I propose to trace these processes from the concept of mediations (Martín-Barbero) as it allows to recognize the different possibilities of access and digital uses, but also the paradoxes and contradictions amid promises of social transformation—started by the self-proclaimed socialist government of Hugo Chávez—and the imperatives of the logic of neoliberal globalization. Drawing on my training in Latin American Cultural Studies, I identify the paradoxical alliances between two models of subjectivities: one emerging from the consumer logic undergirding the digital technologies as promise of cultural intervention and another arising from the precarity produced by the asymmetries of power in a structurally unequal and heterogeneous country such as Venezuela. The dissertation employs formal and textual analysis to examine a set of audiovisuals texts and digital practices and uses, particularly those created and enacted by racialized young men from popular urban sectors. I also deploy a critical and theoretical approach to interrogate the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the sociohistorical contexts of production and reception. I argue that these digital cultures express the mutations of subjectivities and contemporary forms of violence linked to the imperatives of consumerism and hegemonic masculinity functional to the current accumulation regime. My dissertation not only analyzes a fundamental moment in the contemporary history of Venezuelan audiovisual and digital cultures, but also demonstrate the urgency of formulating new questions about understudied cultural dimensions of this period. Finally, this dissertation opens up a different understanding of the so-called socialist Venezuela as regional case in ways that illuminate larger social, cultural, and political dynamics in the Latin American as a whole. In particular, this case study of digital cultures among marginalized subjects will help us to analyze the formation of new subjects as well as the crisis of subjectivity in the articulation between cultural consumption, consumerism, and unprecedented forms of violence in the region.
Ana Del Sarto (Advisor)
204 p.
Aesthetics; Latin American Studies
subjetividad, percepción, estéticas, digitalización, virtualización, culturas digitales; piratería digital; usos digitales; consumo cultural; consumismo, sectores populares urbanos; violencia urbana; masculinidad hegemónica; autogobierno carcelario; Venezuela, globalización, mediaciones, interfaces, azotes de barrio; brujas, YouTube

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  • Rangel Manrique, E. R. (2022). Piratas, azotes y brujas: subjetividades contemporáneas en las culturas digitales en Venezuela (2006-2017) [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658425950773971

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rangel Manrique, Emily. Piratas, azotes y brujas: subjetividades contemporáneas en las culturas digitales en Venezuela (2006-2017). 2022. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658425950773971.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rangel Manrique, Emily. "Piratas, azotes y brujas: subjetividades contemporáneas en las culturas digitales en Venezuela (2006-2017)." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1658425950773971

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