The future is now, catastrophe every day. A reflection about ruin and poetry as critic discourse in Vicente Rivera’s Relave: material particulado

Abstract

In the following article we will analyze the work Relave: material particulado (2021) by Vicente Rivera in light of two conceptual discussions. First, the question of the ruins as an object of aesthetic observation that acquires particular importance during European romanticism and how it is linked with the question of the landscape. Second, poetry as a critical discourse, which will allow us to situate Rivera’s work and its themes as a way of thinking about the damages of extractivism in the northern Chilean territory. In this way, we hope to account for the intersections between subjectivity, poetic writing, criticism and landscape that allows us to read other poetics of the country.