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 …
Beatriz L. Botero En mi trabajo más reciente publicado en el libro The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2022), hago una revisión de la literatura latinoamericana a partir de cuatro conceptos del psicoanálisis: voyeurismo, exhibicionismo, sadismo y masoquismo. Todos estos conceptos referidos al dolor y al cuerpo. ¿Quién mira y disfruta del dolor? ¿Quién …
Glen Close My current book project is a study of documentary films from Latin America and elsewhere that contain representations of commercial animal slaughter. I propose to read these films in the historical context of the modern industrialization and concealment of livestock farming and meat processing. Over the last two centuries, slaughter and meat processing …
Hernando Rojas The interest in political polarization has increased in recent years as perceptions of a polarized world have become more acute (Yang et al., 2016). In part, the perception of increased polarization has been attributed to a new media ecosystem that privileges a networked distribution of information (Friedland et al., 2006), the expansion of …
Barbara Galindo The salt flats are increasingly being exploited as a source of minerals for so-called “green technologies” that are proposed as solutions to the climate crisis. These technologies include photovoltaic solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicle batteries, as well as those essential for global communication, transportation, medicine, and militarism (Klinger, 2017, p. 4). …
Rocío González-Espresati Clement Regina José Galindo (Guatemala, 1974-) es una poetisa y artista visual que utiliza el concepto de liminalidad de Ileana Diéguez como parte de sus obras activistas, pues su obra consiste en experiencias de crisis representadas directamente en su cuerpo. Esta artista visual guatemalteca aprovecha las oportunidades de teatralidad que presenta la vida …