AESTHETIC PRACTICE, AVANT-GARDE AND HEGEMONY IN RICARDO PIGLIA

Abstract

The aesthetic reflection corresponding to the production critic- theory of Ricardo Piglia, is part of the debates within the field of Marxist discussion, from the '60s to the present, in Argentina. Piglia's contribution to the discussions about the link between literature and production conditions, aesthetic practice and capitalism ranges from his original reading of Walter Benjamin, Mao Tse-tung, Yuri Tinianov and Russian Formalism, to cultural studies and the Althusserian structuralism. From this complex plot of readings, and in permanent tension with the various currents of the left-wing intelligentsia(s) of his time, Piglia develops some reading hypotheses that he would continue to re-elaborate until his last interventions and conferences. In this sense, I will develop some links between the categories of  aesthetic practice, hegemony and avant-garde, that emerge from piglian aesthetic reflection, in relation to the conditions of the Argentine cultural field of the last century.