A Cambio de la magia: Traicionando a lo común en el neoliberalismo español (1979–2021)
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2025-03
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<jats:p xml:lang="en"> Resumen: Este artículo rastrea cómo en el paso de España a la democracia tuvo que pagar unos 'precios ocultos', término con el que nos referimos al sacrificio de las lógicas de lo popular comunes a la contra-cultura de la España de la época. La nueva identidad democrática se vio abocada al abandono de su legado sociocultural rural donde proliferaban prácticas de lo común. Repensamos el hastío existencial asociado a la juventud de la transición española como el índice de algo más que la apatía y el desencanto por la pérdida del horizonte revolucionario. A través del análisis de distintas producciones culturales, como el documental Después de … (1983), la película Las verdes praderas (1979), canciones de Javier Krahe y de La Polla Records, entre otros, proponemos que tras ese aburrimiento respira la dimensión humana cercenada propia de los rituales, el saber popular y otras prácticas no-modernas, que tuvo que ser reprimida para que España entrara de lleno en el proyecto de la modernidad. Esta bifurcación hacia el proyecto ideológico de la modernidad ha supuesto el moldeamiento de la subjetividad de acuerdo con la internalización del auto-disciplinamiento productivista neoliberal, heredero del 'hombre blanco' occidental, colonial y patriarcal. En la recuperación de esa magia olvidada es donde persiste el germen de lo común y de otra subjetividad que pone la colectividad en el centro.</jats:p>
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Moreno-Caballud, L, and K Evinson (2025). A Cambio de la magia: Traicionando a lo común en el neoliberalismo español (1979–2021). Hispanófila, 203(1). pp. 161–175. 10.1353/hsf.2025.a963708 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/32533.
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Katryn Evinson
Katryn Evinson is a scholar of modern and contemporary Iberian visual culture and literature. Her research examines the intersections of art and literature with capitalism, drawing on political theory, cultural theory, and political economy to analyze Spain’s role in global cultural and economic dynamics.
Her first book-length project, Sabotage: The Destructive Making of the Creative Economy in Neoliberal Europe, examines the resurgence of sabotage in Spain from the democratic transition through the long aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Rather than framing artistic sabotage as a purely aesthetic tradition—from the avant-garde to institutional critique—the book situates it within broader historical processes that enabled its return. These include the European Union’s deployment of the contemporary art world to advance the financialization of the economy through tourism and real estate. The book argues that Spain became a testing ground for the European Union’s shift from an industrial to a post-industrial model that promoted culture and creativity as economic drivers. Ultimately, it shows how sabotage, long a symbol of worker struggle, resurfaced in art to contest Spain’s neoliberal restructuring—specifically, the use of culture itself to promote and perpetuate neoliberalism.
In addition to her publications on Spanish cultural and political history, feminism, and environmental issues, she serves on the board of the Asociación de Literatura y Cine Español Siglo XXI (ALCESXXI), co-directs The Communal Hypothesis Research Group, is a research member of the Spanish government-funded project Rhythms of Feminized Labor in Spanish Visual Culture (1936-2022), and is on the advisory board of Revista Re-visiones.
Before coming to Duke, Katryn was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, where she taught Contemporary Civilization. Her research has been supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Grant, Cornell’s Society for the Humanities, and the Fisher Center for Gender and Justice at Hobart & William Smith Colleges.
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