Ruin and rubble in Latin America
Of memories and forgetfulness

The history of Latin America's recent ruins is only just beginning to be written from the continent itself, by those who inhabit the territory and have lived the phenomenon of our irregular modernity. It is written through words, bodies, and images. It is not a static history but one in motion, like the ruins themselves, which are always in a process of material degradation, becoming a kind of second nature. This is shown in performative interventions that bring together body and matter, as well as in the poetry and popular graphics that write, scratch, and paint our cities, sometimes at the risk of their own lives. In this sense, this book, due to its diversity of places and times, its interdisciplinary and transversal approach, and its participatory and collective realization, is a great contribution to this history full of incongruities and paradoxes that makes our continent so singular and elusive.