Tag: technology

From #MeToo to Hatred: Online Antifeminist Discourses in Spanish-speaking Countries as a Response to Feminist Movements

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Catalina Farías, Elohim Monard, Elena McCosh, Fernanda Carvajal, Camila Henzi, Jiyoun Suk, Teresa Correa, Dhavan V. Shah Social media have created pathways to digital activism like #MeToo by offering spaces of solidarity and support networks (Suk et al. #MeToo, Networked Acknowledgment 14). Such platforms enable the exchange of activism discourses across borders, ultimately facilitating the creation of …

Trash, Culture, and Transdisciplinarity

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Micah McKay In an essay entitled “Nunca fue tan hermosa la basura,” Spanish philosopher José Luis Pardo makes a simple modification to the famous opening line of Karl Marx’s Capital—“The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities’” (41)—in a way that underlines …

Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas

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Jill Pflugheber & Steven F. White We hope that the Microcosms website, entirely available in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, can be a valuable resource for Latin American Studies programs in that it cuts across traditional disciplines in innovative ways and encourages dialogue between the humanities and the sciences in general, including Anthropology, Art History, …

El borde tecnológico: información y sustentabilidad en América Latina

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Cristian Berrío-Zapata Los bordes nunca son obvios, mucho menos en la complejidad de nuestro mundo tecnologizado, así que a veces preguntarse sobre ellos ya es una conquista. Durante la revolución industrial el credo capitalista combinó sus narrativas con el humanismo moderno. En su seno desarrolló la tecnología computacional, como un borde meta-modernista global que se …