The moralists of all colors, the fundamentalists and other self-named “protectors” of virtue and sanity advocate the use of ban-legislation … More
Category: Inglés
Some thoughts on Joyce Chopra’s film “Smooth Talk”
“Smooth Talk”, Joyce Chopra’s film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where Are You Going, What Have You Been?”, … More
An analysis of Eastman Johnson’s painting, “Negro Life at the South” (1859), in its historical context
Introduction Negro Life at the South (1859 – App. 1) by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), a master of early realism … More
A poetry of confusion? A confused vision of Ginsberg’s “America”
One of the most common reactions to contemporary art is to ask: “Wait a minute! Is this supposed to be … More
Comments on Judith Butler’s “Introduction” to “The Psychic Life of Power” (1997)
Butler is both one of the most influential and one of the most virulently criticized theoreticians of the last decades, … More
Essay on “Early Latin America. A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil” (1983) by James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz
It is not at all surprising that, in their book on the processes through which the subcontinent we now know … More
Notes on Emmanuel Levinas’ “Philosophy and the Idea of the Infinite”
It is difficult to imagine how an intellectual discipline like ours could even begin to operate without such concepts as … More
Comments on Louis Althusser’s “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)”
The problem with trying to react to this essay is that, for better or worse, Althusser’s main ideas are so … More
Essay on Latin American inequality inspired by “The Lopsided Continent” (2003) and “Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Breaking with History?” (2003)
Perhaps surprisingly, neither in Hoffman and Centeno’s article, “The Lopsided Continent” (2003), nor in De Ferranti’s et al. report for … More
The meanings of “Delfín hasta el fin”: Transculturation and the Aesthetics of Race and Class in Ecuadorian Tecnofolclor (paper from 2008)
On December 1, 2006, a video-clip for the tecnofolclor song “Torres Gemelas” (“Twin Towers”), composed and performed by the hitherto … More