Introduction by Santiago Acosta, Paige R. Andersson, Orlando Bentancor, Victoria Saramago, and Brian Whitener

Cultures of Geopower: Kinetic Art, the Guri Dam, and Environment-Making in Venezuela by Santiago Acosta

Santiago Acosta shows how state-sponsored visual arts movements can establish a close connection with nationalistic thinking.

Narrativizing Hydropower: Carolina Caycedo in Brazil by Victoria Saramago

Victoria Saramago explores the aesthetic and narrative challenges of making visible the human and nonhuman displacements implicated in the building of megadams.

Metabolic Rift and Social Reproduction in Roma and Temporada de huracanes: Reading the Limits and Possibilities in Mexican World-Ecology by Paige R. Andersson

Paige Andersson demonstrates how representations of water as ungovernable can challenge infrastructures of enclosure.

World-Ecology as Crisis Theory: Violence and Reproduction in Contemporary Mexican Documentary by Brian Whitener

Brian Whitener examines Mexican cultural production to give us a dialectical image of a world a world-ecology beyond capitalism and the state.

Weird Nature: Abstraction, Horror, and Capitalism in Latin American Speculative Fiction by Orlando Bentancor

Orlando Bentancor inverts the nihilism of contemporary weird fiction into an analytic of contemporary global capitalism’s suicidal world-ecology

Book Reviews

How Amazon Killed the Novel — More or Less by Joseph Staten

Joseph Staten reviews Mark McGurl’s Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

Hyperreal Abstraction by Marina Vishmidt