This chapter presents a narrative analysis of the books of Agustín Laje, a rising intellectual star in the Latin American far right. It argues that the significance of his books does not reside in the presentation of novel ideas or theories but in an attempt at re-imagining and recreating the far-right audience through the reorganization of familiar ultraconservative themes (anti-communism, anti-progressivism, etc.) into innovative dramatic structures. I reconstruct how from an initial incursion in “satire”, Laje’s books evolved into the narrative genres of “social conspiracy” and “dystopia”. What is distinctive about these last genres is that the characters of their plots are depicted less as identifiable individuals and more as abstract social forces. Such a shift is key in three senses: as a form of intellectual self-legitimization, as a way of establishing more multifaceted forms of moral polarization, and as a way of offering new models for political engagement.

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Satire, Conspiracy, Dystopia: Agustín Laje’s Genre Work for the Latin American Reaction

  • Nicolás Rudas

摘要

This chapter presents a narrative analysis of the books of Agustín Laje, a rising intellectual star in the Latin American far right. It argues that the significance of his books does not reside in the presentation of novel ideas or theories but in an attempt at re-imagining and recreating the far-right audience through the reorganization of familiar ultraconservative themes (anti-communism, anti-progressivism, etc.) into innovative dramatic structures. I reconstruct how from an initial incursion in “satire”, Laje’s books evolved into the narrative genres of “social conspiracy” and “dystopia”. What is distinctive about these last genres is that the characters of their plots are depicted less as identifiable individuals and more as abstract social forces. Such a shift is key in three senses: as a form of intellectual self-legitimization, as a way of establishing more multifaceted forms of moral polarization, and as a way of offering new models for political engagement.