Photo: Praga Anca Moanta, in bifurcaciones 7
bifurcaciones, an online review of urban cultural studies, has released its much anticipated issue 7.
This project of Ricardo Greene, LorenaPérez, Diego Campos and Tomas Errazuriz synthesizes the atmospheres of Santiago-Sao Paulo-Buenos Aires-London-New York. We have already remarked ont he quality and significance of Spanish language urban and cultural publication. and with babelfish, systran or Google translator, one cannot seriously avoid grappling with material regardless of language. bifurcaciones is Chile’s calling card on the web as a locus for design avant gardes. My experience of Chile as a Canadian was always via it superb exiled architects, whom I enountered working as usually the best designers in architects’ offices in the early 1980s. Like a memory of a conversation overhead, this was a kind of promise of Chile. The editorial team is better organized and each issue represents a kind of virtual South America – mobile between countries, between institutions and between reflection and practice. In effect, this online journal produces an original South American global public sphere. bifurcaciones maps in words, diagrams and images, the shifting topologies of culture in the great cities of South America. It is a prerequisite for local mappings because it shows how cultural space is not smooth and easily accessed but structured, striated and scrumpled. Recommended reading.
-Rob