Cultural agenda or a space for political intervention?

«Información general» section in Colegio Libre´'s journal

Abstract

This paper approaches the study of the journal Cursos y Conferencias (Buenos Aires, 1931‒1960), published by Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores. It focuses in the analysis of «Información general» section in the period in which the journal was directed by Arturo Frondizi (1941‒1952). In those years, Frondizi brought into play a series of changes that aimed to transform the publication into an autonomous cultural enterprise; among them, the formation of a section of general interest that, from 1946, grew to occupy a central place in the journal. The analysis of these publications allows us to affirm that the scope of this section exceeded the limits of the mere «cultural agenda» serving as a «vanishing point», a less guarded area to which political language moved, and a space of sociability from which networks of personal and institutional relationships were established.