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2005PGdocumentary

El perfecto cerdo

2005PGdocumentary

María Cañas' 2005 work critiques the role of the pig character in contemporary information and archive culture through a metadiscursive lens.

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María Cañas' 2005 work critiques the role of the pig character in contemporary information and archive culture through a metadiscursive lens.

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Kei Igarashicast

Fabrizio Olmedocast

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One of the first works by María Cañas, an excessive metadiscursive exercise on the “pig character” of current information and archive culture.

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