What role has a theoretical publication in these times of razzmatazz, trash TV and postmodern relativism?
In 1978 Punto de vista was the instrument of resistance to the military dictatorship used by a group of intellectuals who opted to stay in Argentina. It was a cultured minority magazine, and I don’t think it sold more than 150 copies: people knew it existed, but they didn’t buy it for fear of repression. It attempted to put forward another possible point of view, the attitude that the dictatorship’s point of view wasn’t the only one. With the arrival of democracy, Punto de vista suffered an identity crisis. New possibilities opened up for those of us who wrote: the newspapers, the universities… We agreed to make Punto de vista a space that would be differentiated from the newspapers and the universities. An essayistic magazine for experimenting with ideas, one that wasn’t obliged to talk about everything that was happening at that moment. In the newspapers I write about issues that I’ll never deal with in Punto de vista, where I analyse literary criticism or the concept of historical
