ABSTRACT
This chapter defines the aesthetics and uncover its traces in works by Bruno Morales, Daniel Link, Alejandro Lopez, and Pablo Katchadjian. All these writers reflect a common concern with the material circumstances of contemporary literary production. The promise of attention to technique is that it will illuminate the relations between labor practices and human action. The existence of the shortcut reflects priorities in the world of labor. An aesthetics of keyboard shortcuts corresponds to those texts that actively recognize and engage these traces. After all, many of the fragments by other authors deal with correspondence and the interpenetration of affective life and long-distance communication. Aesthetic culture retains the possibility of extricating singular existence from the social game of competition and productivity. This notion, which draws on ideas inherited from both romanticism and modernism, does not precisely coincide with what is identified as an aesthetics of keyboard shortcuts.
