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Birkbeck College

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¡Venezuela Progresa! Dictatorship, Spectacle and the Construction of Modernity. Abstract: PhD Thesis

Now that my PhD thesis is officially submitted and the process is finally over, I’m posting my abstract here.

Appendix II: El Techo de la Ballena

Click on the files below to see postcards of Caracas which make up Appendix II of “El Techo de la Ballena and Asfalto-Infierno: the Logic of Inversion in an Attack on Venezuela’s Cultural Establishment.” ETB Diss App II Fig 1 ETB Diss App II Fig 2 ETB Diss App II Fig 3 ETB Diss App […]

Appendix I: El Techo de la Ballena

Click on the files below for the images from Appendix I of “El Techo de la Ballena and Asfalto-Infierno: the Logic of Inversion in an Attack on Venezuela’s Cultural Establishment.” ETB Diss Fig 1 ETB Diss Fig 2

Pdf link for El Techo de la Ballena study

El Techo de la Ballena and Asfalto-Infierno: the Logic of Inversion in an Attack on Venezuela’s Cultural Establishment. Abstract: The 1960s in Venezuela was marked by a political turbulence whose counterpart in the cultural sphere aspired to be no less of an upheaval. Proclaiming a Surrealist-influenced dogma of “Change life, transform society,” a group of […]