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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 2d

Y querido @larrylafountain.bsky.social te estoy citando en mi charla, cariños y gracias x el repost! 🫶

Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight I’m helping to launch this special issue at CCNY along with Claudia Salazar & Mariano López:

www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/lau...

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 25d

¿Dónde está Julia Chuñil?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25d

‘We’re still in the dark’: a missing land defender and the deadly toll of land conflict on Indigenous people

Julia Chuñil is one of 146 land defenders who were killed or went missing last year, a third of them from Indigenous communities

www.theguardian.com

Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Aug 24

Qué bueno que participaron!! 🫶

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is of course true only to the extent that the show engages with Argentine politics and history, which is…not much lol

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Aug 7

My hot take on the big-deal Evita revival in London (which I did see, located as it is at the intersection of my gay interests in musicals and Latin America) is that it weirdly implies that Evita wouldn’t have died so tragically if Perón hadn’t resisted Britain’s informal imperialism in Argentina.

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Chile a ojos de Lucia Berlin - por Milagros Abalo - Revista Santiago

<p>“Andado. Un romance gótico” es otro relato magistral de la escritora estadounidense ambientado en nuestro país, donde ella vivió en los años 50. En una suerte de catarsis entre dos jóvenes mancill...

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vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · Jun 24

Muy feliz de empezar a compartir el trabajo de muchos años. Este jueves en @cbamadrid.es presentamos Un país entre dos tiempos, un intento de mapear los debates y procesos políticos que han atravesado la historia española reciente, y de recuperar perspectivas útiles para el presente. ¡Nos vemos!

Lengua de Trapo / Círculo de Bellas Artes @lenguaycirculo.bsky.social · Jun 24

¿Cómo entender la vorágine política que ha supuesto la última década en nuestro país?
Este jueves presentamos el ensayo "Un país entre dos tiempos", de @vrupu.bsky.social.
Con @gzapata.bsky.social

Coeditado con @cbamadrid.es.

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Jun 23

A statue, along the River Liffey in Dublin, of William Brown (1777-1857), “founding father” of the Argentine Navy who “defended Argentina against Brazil” according to the plaque on the base, written in English and Spanish. If Wikipedia is to be believed, this was in the Battle of Juncal in 1827.

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Jun 16

Viet Thanh Nguyen, lucid as ever, on cultural memory, El Salvador, Marco Rubio, and the deeply interconnected histories of US imperialism, from Latin America to SE Asia.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · Jun 16

#Colloquium: On Wednesday, Thyssen@KWI Fellow @carlospescador.bsky.social examines Patagonia’s incorporation into Chile and Argentina through nationalist discourses linking past and present, genocide, and feminist critiques of geopolitical expansionism.
👉https://shorturl.at/Nn9jL

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Corey McEleney @cmceleney.bsky.social · May 29

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.

Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · May 29

MSCL’s main character, Angela Chase, is both loved and abhorred for her over-analyzing. Her fraught monologues have been read as both the center of the show’s relatability & as whining and entitled. @cmceleney.bsky.social probes this ambivalence in "A Lover’s Discord" post45.org/2025/05/a-lo...

A Lover’s Discord: Angela’s Overanalyzing - Post45

“But what above love?” asks Rita Felski in The Limits of Critique, as part of her attempt to reconsider the role that “passionate attachments” play in academic criticism.((Rita Felski, The Limits of C...

post45.org

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · May 15

Hermoso video que armó el partido de Pepe Mujica como homenaje: youtu.be/8j4oARl0Zss?...

Despedida a Pepe Mujica. ¡Hasta siempre viejo querido!

YouTube video by 609MPP

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · May 13

Ahí nos vemos, querido!

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · May 13

Embodied Sexualities. LASA preconference in San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2025.

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Apr 19

Los lugares como ese, “libertarios” a morir, son espantosos. Este libro tiene una lectura súper interesante al respecto: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Adventure Capitalism

Raymond Craib An exploration and takedown of libertarian exit strategies.

pmpress.org

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Apr 18

Exciting (and long awaited) new book just arrived from José Miguel Palacios. Can’t wait to read.

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Apr 15

Here in Essen for the next few months, in great (and very illustrious) company

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · Apr 14

Welcome to our 10th cohort of International Fellows! 👋 Find out more about Martin Babička, Stefan Laffin, Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier, @carlospescador.bsky.social and Academy in Exile Fellow Carlos Gerardo Zúñiga Nieto here:
www.kulturwissenschaften.de/welcome-10th...

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Apr 14

The only time I ever saw him speak, in 2010, he gave a terrible speech about how European cultures were simply superior to those of the global south. But Conversación en la catedral still blew my mind. He was an independent thinker like no other, I’ll give him that. elpais.com/cultura/2025...

Las celebridades que rodearon a Mario Vargas Llosa

El escritor, premio Nobel de Literatura, estuvo acompañado por políticos, escritores, actores y destacados artistas que marcaron un hito en la historia

elpais.com

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Apr 13

Four (so far) at Fordham

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Apr 7

Reading my brilliant colleague @zeinmurib.bsky.social ‘s well-researched piece about repeated efforts by the gay and lesbian movement to sideline trans people (and the consequences of that sidelining today) is a great way to spend 5 minutes of your day today: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.

Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.

slate.com

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Mar 31

Seen at the entrance to my local subway station.

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Mar 14

Wow. Wow. We were so optimistic that those donors weren’t attaching any strings for their “generosity.” Hasn’t turned out as planned. I wonder what kind of pressure Lutnick will start to put on Haverford, if any

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Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · Mar 14

Don’t tell me it’s Lutnick Library as in…Howard?

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