ABSTRACT
The period from the 1980s onwards saw the rise of neoliberal regimes across Latin America, predicated on structural adjustment, export-led growth, and privatization of previously nationalized industries, deregulation and the privileging of market-led solutions over state intervention. In a Latin American context, scholars have frequently observed how the modern nation-state is losing its legitimacy a legitimacy that was already partial and never fully achieved in the face of global corporatism. The work of Latin American net artists thus lies on a spectrum; there is no longer a purely oppositional space, or one purely oppositional genre or mode in which net art can engage in resistant practice. This chapter demonstrates the works analysed make use of a variety of different genres and generic conventions, as well as tactical re-uses of a variety of commercial platforms. Their works frequently critique the structural violence of the neo-liberal state, and place the social exclusions generated by late capitalism under sustained scrutiny.
