Cartografías de la (Des)esperanza: políticas y naufragios desde la posmodernidad
Shipwrecks have been a constant theme in Western visual culture and this subject has featured in political and moral contexts to express a variety of concepts. The aim of this text is to describe the relationships between shipwrecks, sea and Hope in the complex background of Western visual tradition to depict the survival of such notions in contemporary culture. Aesthetic preferences are superseded by political positions 
to study postmodern shipwrecks, a shift that highlights the social commitment of art historians. Walter Benjamin claimed to write the history of the defeated and now, following his advice, we can put them into images. It is then that images take political positions.