What kinds of aesthetics issue forth from need? Taking its name from Brazilian film director Glauber Rocha’s 1965 manifesto, this graduate seminar investigates how practitioners and critics have sought to understand political, social, economic, and material limitations as generative conditions for aesthetic form. Moving between Latin American debates of the 1960s and 70s and the contemporary moment, we examine how hunger, scarcity, and imperfection inform such concepts as violence, excess, subject formation, image circulation, geopolitics, neo-developmentalism.

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