Oscar del Barco editor: la construcción de una política de la teoría en Ediciones Caldén

In this paper, we look at how theory and publishing practices were intertwined in Argentina between 1967 1976. We do so by analyzing “El hombre y su mundo” [“The Man His World"], a collection of books directed Oscar del Barco for Ediciones Caldén (Argentina) during that period. hold Barco´s multifaceted work as editor, translator, compiler, essayist, created politics theory, focusing on two interrelated aspects: 1) poetics publishing, with translations works political theorists, structuralist poststructuralist thinkers coming together unique mediated Barco’s critical texts, 2) "smuggling" practice –as texts selected, translated shaped into small from foreign magazines no copyright permission. see performative force such interrelation strategies, made available through materialities acted upon what those very calling for.