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Lolita en el Caribe

Lolita en el Caribe

Un hombre de noventa años desea celebrar su cumpleaños con una adolescente virgen de catorce. Como se observa, el filme de Memorias de mis putas tristes (2011),  del danés Henning…
The War of the Termite

The War of the Termite
La guerra de las termitas

For the multidisciplinary Mexican artist Emilio Chapela, the communication networks, as well as the search engines, cybernetic tools, and digital programs, are ideal spaces in which to encounter society’s miscalculations,…
Dos poemas

Dos poemas

 Traducción de Isaac Goldemberg  Otra razón por la que no guardo  un arma en casa   El perro de los vecinos no para de ladrar. Está ladrando con el mismo…
Reversing Sculpture

Reversing Sculpture
Escultura Inversa

Onishi Yasuaki The fluorescent coating gives off a chilly light. The electric fan moans quietly. The glue hangs in the air. The polyethylene plastic sheet sways lightly. Onishi Yasuaki combines…
This Machine Kills Tweets

This Machine Kills Tweets

Alighiero Boetti´s PDF Many a thinker has denounced the dangers of thinking in 140 characters, mostly relating it to productivity and concentration in the work place. I am adding this…
Twilight of the Elites

Twilight of the Elites
El ocaso de las élites

In the midst of all the recent scandals affecting the global banking system, journalist Christopher Hayes (Editor-in-Chief of The Nation) talks about his most recent book, Twilight of the Elites:…
Step 8

Step 8

 Translated by Tanya Huntington At the dawn of a new era, one of the things people find hardest to do is apologize. The Judeo-Christian guilt complex has lost its punch.…
Radio Ambulante

Radio Ambulante
Radio ambulante

I first heard of Radio Ambulante while at City Lights Books several months ago, where author Daniel Alarcón mentioned it during a reading. I was intrigued by the idea: a…
The Word of Admonition

The Word of Admonition

This year, José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, a Professor of Political Science at CIDE, will publish Liberty in Mexico (Liberty Fund), a book of sixty-four essays and writings on liberty and…
Un país extraño (fragmento)

Un país extraño (fragmento)

En pláticas de corredor y atacando prejuicios, hubo quienes sostenían que eran simplemente de otro color. Pero muchos afirmaban que no sólo su aspecto era distinto, también su conducta, decían,…