ABSTRACT
Obscure ground Infrapolitics seeks a break away from the political not in the name of politics but in the name of an essential affirmation that, while involving ethics, is not itself limited to ethics. There is an infrapolitical dimension of the literary that would not be specific to Hispanism but that determines Hispanism in the same way it would determine any other form of intellectual endeavor. If we understand Hispanism not as the secular history of reflection on the destinies and particularities of Spanish culture but rather civilizationally, as the history and practice of reflection on territories, peoples, languages, and worlds marked by the Castilian language, all too often through gestures of war, of domination, conquest, and oppression, we could perhaps understand Hispanism as yet another modality of war practice. I will suggest the opposite. In any case, I think Hispanism today is up against a border, living in such a border, and that crossing the border is the fundamental task of an inevitable renewal.
