Abstract

FRANK, Marco. “Quizá Usted es un imbécil”. The Irradiador magazine and its intellectual networks. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2020, n.159, pp.319-354.  Epub Mar 05, 2021. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.159.2020.688.

The study of magazines, in recent years, has always taken on more importance in the field of intellectual history. The works on these publications make it possible to reconstruct not only the group of intellectuals that participated directly in the magazine, but also the network that had been created outside the newsroom, favoring contacts with different economic, political and social sectors. Participants in the magazines "sought to express their concerns through this means of communication and, simultaneously, find a space that legitimized the position they wanted to reach." In this article the underlying intellectual networks will be analyzed by the avant-garde magazine Irradiador, published by the stridentist movement at the end of 1923, graphing them with Gephi software. The objective is to modify the perception about the origin and the influences that stridentism had; identifying the various “isms” that Maples Arce inspired, denying in this way the belief that stridentism was a Mexican copy of Italian futurism.

Keywords : Estridentismo; vanguard; intellectual networks; magazines; 20's; Mexico.