Hotel Oblivion
Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz, published by Four Way Books in 2022, is a collection of poetry that explores the complexities of identity and existence within a capitalist society. This edition, comprising 104 pages, presents a working-class subject who grapples with the absence of a past, home, and memory, reflecting on the implications of neoliberalism’s denial of social classes.
Readers will find a series of fragments and interrelated poems that chronicle the subject’s attempts to navigate and resist the forces that render her invisible. Through themes of negative freedom and the death drive, Cruz delves into the struggle for self-emancipation and transformation. The work engages with the challenges faced by individuals in a society that often overlooks their existence, making it a poignant exploration of personal and collective identity.
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A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes, thus, there is no working class, the main subject of Hotel Oblivion, a working class subject, does not exist. With no access to a past, she has no home, no history, no memory. And yet, despite all this, she will not assimilate. Instead, this book chronicles the subject’s repeated attempts at locating an exit from capitalist society via acts of negative freedom and through engagement with the death drive, whose aim is complete destruction in order to begin all over again. In the end, of course, the only true exit and only possibility for emancipation for the working class subject is through a return to one’s self. In Hotel Oblivion, through a series of fragments and interrelated poems, Cruz resists invisibilizing forces, undergoing numerous attempts at transfiguration in a concerted effort to escape her fate.
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