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Reproductibilidad técnica y archivo: Máquinas y materialidad en la escritura de Eugenia Prado y Matías Celedón

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2026

Valeria de los Ríos*
Affiliation:
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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En este artículo me propongo abordar Advertencias de uso para una máquina de coser (2017), de Eugenia Prado Bassi; y El clan Braniff (2018), de Matías Celedón, como textos chilenos contemporáneos que utilizan la noción de archivo para crear ficciones documentales. La materialidad de la escritura es el resultado de operaciones que involucran máquinas (fotográfica, fotocopiadora, de coser) y la técnica de montaje o collage, cuyo uso convierte al libro en un dispositivo visual que —como en las vanguardias históricas— rompe con la linealidad de la escritura y al mismo tiempo la vinculan con un referente exterior a ella misma, generando tensiones, negociaciones y ambigüedades en torno a la noción de indexicalidad y de virtualidad.

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Abstract

In this article I address Advertencias de uso para una máquina de coser (2017), by Eugenia Prado Bassi, and El clan Braniff (2018), by Matías Celedón, as contemporary Chilean texts that use the notion of archive to create documentary fictions. The materiality of writing is the result of operations that involve machines (photography, photocopying, sewing) and the montage or collage technique, the use of which turns the book into a visual device that, as in the historical avant-garde, breaks with linearity of writing and at the same time is linked to a referent outside itself, generating tensions, negotiations, and ambiguities around the notion of indexicality and virtuality.

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