Add to ORKGThe Desired Revolution and the New Man: Assembling and Negotiating Cultural and Intellectual Practices in Revolutionary Cuba In my dissertation, “The Desired Revolution and the New Man: Assembling and Negotiating Cultural and Intellectual Practices in Revolutionary Cuba,” I argue that the narratives of the Cuban revolution produced by its organic intellectuals (as well as by its main ideological drive, the so-called ‘new man’ [hombre nuevo]) have set in motion differential affective politics operating in the cultural field. These narratives operate via complex flows of ‘structures of feeling’ that generate the desire to desire the Cuban Revolution on the collective social body, inside and outside the island. The deepest social transformati...
