ABSTRACT
Pedro Lemebel's cronica-based communicative and political practice is grounded then on two general forms of understanding proletarianization. One is reactive to what it perceives as the partial theft of historical capabilities of the Chilean people by neoliberal capitalism, and especially by mass-mediated communicational capitalism. The other is proactive as it proposes, first, to re-appropriate, re-invigorate and re-collectivize the general aesthetic capabilities encoded and privatized by traditionally understood literature and mass media; and, second, to culturally expand the limits of what is politics and political. For Lemebel, as for Jacques Ranciere, art like politics, is, or should be, a practice suspending the rules governing normalized experience and their specific and historically determined distribution of the sensible. The chapter discusses in detail about: Sexuality as cultural expansion of the political, Lemebel's relation to mass media and the cronica as mass-mediated literature.
