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Don DeLillo’s “Mao II” and the Concept of the “Death of the Author”

It is almost too strong a temptation to think about Bill Gray, the protagonist of Don DeLillo’s novel Mao II, … More

death of the author, Don DeLillo, filosofía, literatura, Mao II, muerte del autor, Roland Barthes

Hollywood Paranoia and “the Sixties”

No other historical period in the post-war United States is granted such a significance in the collective imagination as the … More

cine, Estados Unidos, estudios de cine, Hollywood, paranoia, Sixties

Comments on “The Ethic of Truths: Construction and Potency” (2001) by Alain Badiou

Already at the beginning of his essay on “The Ethic of Truths”, the former Maoist Alain Badiou makes clear that … More

Alain Badiou, ética, filosofía, política

Book review: Betty J. Meggers’ “Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise” (1971)

More than thirty years after its original publication, and more than a decade after the appearance of its revised edition, … More

América Latina, anthropology

Notas sobre “The Psychic Life of Power” (1997) de Judith Butler

Quisiera empezar este ensayo sobre la introducción de The Psychic Life of Power – Theories in Subjection, publicada en 1997, poniendo … More

filosofía, Judith Butler

On the homogeneity and heterogeneity of Latin America as a region and the notion of discourse history

There is no question that the existence of a region called “Latin America” is a “reality,” and one which is … More

América Latina, historia

Essay on “The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence” (1994) by Victor Bulmer-Thomas

If we had to summarize in only one word the reasons why, according to Victor Bulmer-Thomas, the “economic development of … More

América Latina, historia, historia económica

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Roberto Ponce Cordero

Ph.D. en Literatura y Estudios Culturales del Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Hispánicas de la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Magister Artium en Historia y Literatura Norteamericanas de la Facultad de Historia y de la Facultad de Literatura de la Universidad de Hamburgo. Cervecero. Ciudadano del mundo. Fan de Kim Deal, Tori Amos, John Waters, Bret Easton Ellis, Don DeLillo, Judith Butler y Emelec.

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