Main Currents of Spanish Thought, 1848 to the Present: War and Culture (1713-2023)

This course seeks to explore the cultural logics of the Spanish Modernity since 1789 to the present, studying the historical configuration of Iberian Modern cultures though aesthetics, as a violent process that involves memory, power and communities. Among the topics to be addressed are places of memory, national imagination, hegemony and resistance, subalternity, political subjection, biopolitics, popular cultures, political art, underground aesthetics, historical memory, mass cultures, avant-garde and poetics in a wide range of texts and materials, from zarzuelas, theater plays and poems to novels, documentary films and images.