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Abstract This article reflects on the way in which visual technology appears and generates visual aesthetics in a majority of Latin American fictions affected by globalization processes. It explores how two metaphors ("Realism of simulacrum" and "Archaeology of the present") can be valid to explain two different treatments of technology in contemporary fiction and how they dialogue in several texts. The first tends to underline how the hypermedia opens what can be understood as "reality". The second emphasizes the objects and bodies left behind by the virtualization of reality, adopting the language and aesthetics of post-apocalyptical fictions while describing our world. This work reads this dialogue in Gabriela Bejerman, Dalia Rosetti, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Sergio Bizzio, Leandro Ávalos Blacha y Edmundo Paz Soldán, and demonstrates how traditional nostalgia for a reality separated from the spectacle fades away in all this cases.

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