Alternative Writings and Reading Practices in the Digital Age

Abstract

From the anthropological studies it has been observed how the writing and reading practices of the digital age are generating other ways of reading and writing that range from the appropriation of texts, the rewriting of a part of the work and the formation of communities. Writing and reading have ceased to be individual or solitary acts to reaffirm their collective character. These behaviors are accompanied by the positioning of alternative literary aesthetics that question the limits of author’s rights and defend the use of language as part of a community. The above is outlined through the analysis of the literary proposal of the Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza in order to observe how these cultural practices are inscribed within a decolonial pedagogy, according to Mignolo and Walsh, since they open the way to others forms of knowing that challenge universal aesthetic assessments and hegemonic market structures.