Interview with Juan Pablo Meneses

Abstract

Juan Pablo Meneses is a Chilean chronicler, writer and journalist who founded what is now known as "Portable Journalism. "His chronicles of consumerism present a new form of narrative journalism that takes as the axis the experience of buying. From his project “School of Portable Journalism” –which has students connected from more than twenty countries - Meneses discovers and promotes different voices of narrative and journalism from experimental and independent supports. He wrote the books Hand luggage (Planet 2003); Sex and power (Planet 2004); The life of a cow (Planet / Seix Barral 2008, finalist of the Seix Barral Chronicles Award); Crónicas Argentinas (Norma 2009), Hotel España (Norma 2009 / Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2010) and Children soccer players (2013). Currently, he is working on the last volume of his "journalism cash" trilogy, for which he bought a God in India and founded a religion in New York with the aim of writing a book about this subject. Inspired In a series of questions that, within the framework of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, could be grouped around the notion of capitalist discourse, the present interview addresses some aspects of this experience.