Estética y containers : antologías de la literatura electrónica y commoditización de la cultura

What is the role of Latin American e-lit anthologies in the platformization of culture? This paper compares such anthologies with the dominant platform model as a characteristic mode of production in the digital medium. Since e-lit is a fertile liminal field for rethinking categories of literary criticism, the hypothesis is that it illustrates the oscillation between two poles of digital content: 'capturability' and 'overflow', poles whose aesthetic and political implications are paradoxical. The digital cultural field may be effectively created at the interfaces, or, alternatively, in the interfaces, so the aim is to offer a tentative response to two related questions: what are the challenges for literary criticism in this scenario; and what are the differences between a) fully integrated or convergent productions as normalized digital content in the context of online platforms; and b) those that exceed the limits of standardization due to other dynamics of indexation and distribution. We introduce the proposition of a forensic aesthetics as a form of accessing the field and interfaces as a key subject. Interfaces are discussed through the contrast between a standardizing 'container model' and the indexing operation of artworks that transcend the logics of 'content', like those selected by Latin American e-lit anthologies.