Los finales de la teoría: investigación y refundación

Abstract

In the present work I propose to analyze the construction methods of two theoretical interventions around the “ends” of Literary Criticism and Theory. In the article “El fin de la literatura. Un ejercicio de teoría literaria comparada”, by Marcelo Topuzian; and Suturas. Imágenes, escritura, vida, by Daniel Link, insist two ways of closing the discourse of Literary Theory, either through the analysis of the historicity of their moments and institutional vicissitudes; whether due to the need for an exercise to refund the discipline. I will consider the possibility of thinking that those two moments are logical detachments of a discourse still operative, that refers to the foundation of the chairs of Literary Theory in the period of the last democratic restoration (1984-1985); and I will review the contributions of the so-called “aesthetics of negativity” by Cristoph Menke to be able to think of a type of contribution within that discursive mass that can continue to provide interesting contributions to a knowledge, supposedly, out-dated. As part of that hypothesis, I will also recover some key moments of the discussion around the concept of “postautonomy” of Josefina Ludmer raised by Miguel Dalmaroni in an article in the digital magazine Bazar americano.