Siempre fui buena para los números: poetry, affect and economy for Nurit Kasztelan

Abstract

Over the past decades, art criticism often focused its reading efforts on relational aspect of contemporary productions. This interest was identified as a symptom of the "affective turn". It happened also in a significant part of poetry production that insists in a will to get out of oneself, in an intention to address: to go to the encounter with the Other, being the reader, being other languages, an encounter that implicates a power to affect and be affected. My work proposes to discuss about affects in an economy, i.e., oikonomia. For that, I will analyze some poems from the book Lógica de los Accidentes, by Nurit Kasztelan (Editorial VOX, 2013) and how the barter economy and its fails are inseparable from an affective logic.