Saturday, November 21, 2009
Lou Dobbs, Toasted by Mariachis, on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show
Labels:
anti-Mexican hate mongers,
Jon Stewart,
Lou Dobbs
The Question of Rita Hayworth | Photography as Allegory
Labels:
rita cansino,
Rita Hayworth,
ritarcheology
Friday, November 20, 2009
Lalo Alcaraz on Lou Dobbs
Labels:
anti-immigrant,
Anti-Mexican hate,
Lou Dobbs
Thursday, November 19, 2009
NPR on Latinos in Long Island
Labels:
Latinos in Long Island,
NPR,
paco barajas
Eyegiene Sketch
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dystopia, Dystopia! Spring 2010, English 549 @ SDSU
My new Spring 2010 class on Dystopias in film and literature is now live on the internets (Dystopia, Dystopia! From the Erotic Electric to the Anarchy of Technologies on the Verge). See a screenshot of the page opposite or click here to be instantly teleported! No worries, despite the cynical pessimism that is the life's blood of your dystopic webweaver, there is no danger in this process (I hope) and no big brother is watching (I think). The class is perfect for folks interested in interdisciplinary studies (MALAS, are you listening?) and other area and ethnic studies devotees!
Labels:
alfonso cuarón,
Bill Nericcio,
dystopia,
Engl 549.1,
huxley,
literature.sdsu.edu,
orwell,
sdsu
Art Laboe in the LA Times
Labels:
art leboe,
latimes,
latina,
Latino/a Musica,
los angeles times,
musica
Art LeBoe in the LA Times
Labels:
art leboe,
latimes,
latina,
Latino/a Musica,
los angeles times,
musica
Salvador Barajas Writes in With a Xicanosmotic Project
Labels:
the border,
xicanosmosis
Mexican Superheroes, Working Immigrants, XicanOSMOSIS, and Dulce Pinzón
original posting: 3/5/08
It may be the times (and a facebook query from a regular reader), but I think the present anti-immigrant zeitgeist demands that we rethink the way we see these mostly brave, valiant, documented and undocumented sojourners--no one makes us do that better than Dulce Pinzón.
Xicanosmosis is one of the key concepts that emerges in the closing sections of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in American. A mouthful of a word, XicanOSMOSIS is a name loaded with salacious, reproductive overtones; it describes a peculiar process or phenomena where the high-brow and low-brow miasmal excesses of U.S. pop culture and the equally sordid and delicious emanations of Mexican mass arts fuse, co-mingle, spoon, and "splorf" into and onto each other in a veritable orgy of creative synergy and aesthetic synesthasia. You can see xicanosmotic climaxes and much, much, much more at work in the brilliant art of Dulce Pinzón, especially her Superheroes project.Pinzon's fabulous gallery of ocular delights imagines an urban metropolitan setting where working Mexican immigrants are re-imagined at their labors clothed in the garb of DC and Marvel comics finest--Spiderman, the Flash, the Thing, Batman, and more. The go-to target of fascist racist pundits, the working poor, the swarthy immigrant, is re-visioned as the epitome of American fantasy, the Superhero.
Gracias, gracias to the BorderLore newsletter, a project out of the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona! More info? Hit this.
Labels:
Anti-Mexican hate crimes,
Art Gallery,
art history,
cultural synesthasia,
Dulce Pinzón,
Mexico,
New York,
Superheroes,
Undocumented Immigrants,
xicanosmosis
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Rewards of Mexican-bashing: Lou Dobbs' 8 Million Dollar Buyout
Labels:
$8 million,
cnn,
Lou Dobbs,
Mexican-bashing
Mark Dery on "2012" and Disaster Porn in Hplus Magazine
Labels:
2012,
carnival of bunkum,
Mark Dery
Eyegiene Notes
Labels:
eyegiene
Viagra Commercials, Mexican Style...
Labels:
advertising,
Mexico,
viagra
Monday, November 16, 2009
Doroteo Arango, aka Pancho Villa, with his Kids
Labels:
doroteo arango,
pancho villa
San Diego State University Outreach
Last Friday I was lucky enough to be tapped by Berenice Gil (EOP) at SDSU to be one of the professors talking to local area high school students in their Freshman for a Day program--I had a blast working with the 35 or so students who were SDSU undergraduates for one afternoon on Montezuma Mesa! I hope that ALL of them decide to try to get to SDSU, or, if that does not work out, Harvard! The program is to your left; one group of Hoover High geniuses appears below:
update:
SDSU Marketing and Communications has posted a video and story on Freshman for a Day program:
update:
SDSU Marketing and Communications has posted a video and story on Freshman for a Day program:
Labels:
freshman for a day,
hoover high,
sdsu
Xicanosmosis: Cuban-style
More Spanish-Speaking "Hilarity" from Texas
Thanks once again to our ace East Coast agent Daphne Strassmann for the link--a follow-up on this prior posting.
Erase the Black Couple! I SAID ERASE THE BLACK COUPLE: More Photoshopping Hijinks and the History of Race
Ace Boston gumshoe journalist Daphne Strassmann writes in with a link to the latest tale of photoshopping and race in cinema. Hit the image above for the story!
Labels:
Daphne Stassmann,
photoshop
Wow! One of the Most Striking Mexican Stereotypes I Have Found in Ages: Sanka Coffee and the Sleeping Mexican
Labels:
coffee,
gawker,
gawker.com,
Mexican Stereotypes,
sanka,
sleeping mexicans
More on the Traces of Africa in Mexico
Labels:
Africans in Mexico,
Latinos and Africanos
More Video Game "Literature" at the Border!
My thanks to my friend and amazing artist Izel Vargas for bringing this came to my attention--I can add it to the work I am doing on Borderlands.
Tex[t]-Mextian Sightings in the Village Voice!
Labels:
Ask A Mexican,
Gustavo Arellano,
Spicy Latinas,
Stereotypes of Latina Women,
Stereotypes of Women,
the village voice
Sunday, November 15, 2009
On the Verge: Borderlands From Gearbox
In an article published years ago entitled "Artif[r]acture" with MELUS, I argued that literary critics had to update their tools to deal with a literary realm that was increasingly visual and semiotic--if anything the mild jeremiads of that piece need a turboboost in our world today with Kindle, nook (pictured above), and their ilk changing the way folks read and libraries increasingly becoming gold mines of picture/word assemblages.
In that piece (a revised, update version of which appears in Eyegiene, my forthcoming picture-filled tome with UT Press), I wrote about video games being the next form of "the novel."
I wrote that, and I still believe it to be true, but I have never tried it--until now....
Gearbox software just came out with a new game called Borderlands--you can watch a review of it here from Gametime Trailers:
You can get the game specs here or by hitting the image there to your left.
I have written about the demonization and sexualization and the militarization of the border between the US and Mexico for years; I am very curious to see how this TROPE-ic Verge plays out in ultra violent games for the kiddies and others...
Labels:
Borderlands,
Gearbox Software,
Video Games as Novels
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