Regulaciones sobre las revistas literarias/culturales en Argentina

Abstract

We propose an exploratory study on the incidence of the different levels of restrictions that regulate conduct proposed by Lawrence Lessig (1998): legal, social norms, market and architecture, on the circuit of production, circulation and consumption of literary magazines in Argentina. Academic studies around literary magazines tend to direct their attention as an episode and stage of life in the professional career of writers and/or intellectuals, or they constitute research that thinks of magazines as a space for cultural realization and exchange. However, literary magazines in their productive circuit are an area of academic vacancy, a field that becomes more complex with the incidence of new technologies in the forms of production, distribution circuits and modes of consumption in all Cultural Industries. Lessig’s analysis of literary magazines allows us to reflect on the role of the State as guarantor of the right to freedom of expression and thought, as well as to analyze the social practices that characterize this niche audience. New technologies have modified reading habits, making the social role that literary and cultural magazines need to reframe. This study proposes a multidimensional view on the crisis that cultural magazines suffer in Argentina, in their levels of production, circulation and consumption.