Tex[t]-Mex Update: A Very Retail Christmas, 1990 ... #textmex #speedygonzales

Very excited to see this morning that the Christmas special that opens my piece on Speedy Gonzales in Tex[t]-Mex is back on the internets!

via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISSGtY9-gE

The streaming version appears below and my essay on Speedy and other manufactured "Mexicans" in American mass culture can be read free here; or, not so free, in Tex[t]-Mex here.

Photography at the Heart of my Spring 2026 Class at SDSU #americansubterranean26 : Diane Arbus and Francesca Woodman, and Palahniuk, Vonnegut, Gaitskill, Lynch, Welles, ...

 

 

If the link above is broken, here you go: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10164653866268653&set=a.10150661484513653&type=3&ref=embed_post

And to save you a trip to Zuckerberg's increasingly enshittified surveillance machine:

A little Christmas time "cheer" from Diane Arbus and Francesca Woodman, two photographers whose haunting traces--born of genius, chemicals, and light--inform my Spring #americansubterranean25 experiments.

More on Arbus and Woodman:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/window-world-diane-arbus-180968861/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/design/francesca-woodman-photographs-gagosian.html

The Spring '26 experiment: https://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2026/spring/

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