Ksenija Bilbija Some twenty years ago, in 2003, a student in one of my undergraduate classes brought to my attention a strange 14-page long book that looked like something his grade school sister could have made at home (hand painted cover included!) and asked me if he could write a final class paper about it. …
Mario Sanchez Gumiel Jorge Luis Borges’ story “Del rigor en la ciencia” narrates how the creation of the map of an empire becomes so exact and precise that the mapped landscape of that empire eventually usurps the role of the original landscape as the real landscape. At the end, the original landscape recovers its status …
Joseph Wager Perhaps the most widely studied case of disappearances is that of the last cívico-militar dictatorship in Argentina. The number of disappearances is generally recognized as 30,000. Resistance to this regime of terror has been influential domestically and internationally, from the human-rights report Nunca Más to the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Today, the …