ABSTRACT
Mario Bellatin's writing machines are a fundamental part of the literary climate of the continent and are exemplary of his current relationship to new technologies. Those globalized technologies, far from detaining literary processes, have accelerated literary production and have helped to redefine the role of the author, close to new literary practices, sometimes hyper-technological and other times primitive. Bellatin's example shows us how the contemporary writer is changing his/her aesthetic, inevitably influenced by those machines that materially produce writing, in attempts to register the new forms of perception and sensibility. These conditions of writing are not only provided by machines, but also by the places of textual production: the writer is distanced from the desk at which he/she has worked, driven by the mobility of cellular phones and tablets to write anywhere and to the Internet to disseminate his/her work, becoming a true 'writing man' or a 'writer cyborg' of restless, mass mediatized contemporary capitalism.
