The Times of the Present: A Case Against Immediacy (the definitive edition of Mariana Eva Pérez's Diary of a Montonera Princess)
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In this essay, I analyse the conditions and effects of immediacy –a term conceptualized by authors as Anna Kornbluh- in certain cultural productions of the present (self-surrender, affective immersion, annulment of critical distance), and its relationship with the capitalist circulation of experience. Subsequently, I propose other narrative possibilities that depart from immediacy to construct the present through specific procedures that reinscribe distance. To do this, I refer in particular to the latest and definitive edition of Diary of a Montonera Princess. 110% Truth, by Mariana Eva Perez, and I analyse it with the notions of sincerity and transtemporality. There, immediacy, instead of flattening the present through the action of the “here and now” of the self, is worked through compositional and formal tensions, which produce the necessary distance to traverse empathetic affectivity and activate questions and debates.
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