The first time i encountered an image of Comala was in the written words of Juan Rulfo’s master piece Pedro Paramo (1955). I was fascinated by the poetical power of this mythical space. Comala was at the same time a town, a state of mind, an underworld, heaven and a total universe. After re-reading Rulfo’s…
i invite people to mail me a telegram. since telegrams are a dead medium and we cannot send them anymore, i invite you to download the following image, print it and then, fill it with a short message. please limit your characters to no more than 200 hundred. the topic for this project is the…
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers By Tom Standage. New York : Walker and Co., 1998. Pp. IX + 227. $9.56. The title of this book, in particular the words “Internet” and “On-Line,” reminds us that networked telecommunication systems are not unique to our contemporary times….
Inside the multitude of twitter feeds i monitor as part of my job in the office of student affairs, i discovered that a 35mm print of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (W. Herzog, 1974) was going to be screened last monday at the campus movie theater, the texas union. I was glad to find this…
Last summer i started to ride long distances and really enjoyed the experience of discovering new landscapes and spending a lot of physical energy on locomotion. I did several rides across massachusetts using the red basket bicycle that i got in the acetarium. It was a japanese bike from the 70s in pretty good shape…
Many times in north America people confuse my last name with the name of a dance and a song that was popular in the 1990s and that had an infamous video that showed beautiful women dancing at a beach. People say, it is like lambada, the forbidden dance? I usually make jokes about that. However,…
After having started and stopped several weblogs, I have decided to come back to the logging practice, in its long format, in order to exercise my writing and have more space for developing my arguments, ideas, curiosities, exploits, and opinions. In recent years, most of my everyday publishing activity has centered around microblogging in twitter,…