Issue #82 Fog or Smoke? Colonial Blindness and the Closure of Representation

Fog or Smoke? Colonial Blindness and the Closure of Representation

Irmgard Emmelhainz

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Rubén Gámez, La fórmula secreta (Coca Cola en la sangre), 1965. 42", film. The movie's script is based on a text by Juan Rulfo.

Issue #82
May 2017










Notes
1

Cristina Rivera Garza, Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé que (México DF: Random House, 2017)

2

“Talpa” was originally published in Revista de América, January 1953.

3

Elaine Scarry, Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), 377–78.

4

Rolando Vázquez, “Precedence, Earth and the Anthropocene: Decolonizing Design,” Design Philosophy Papers, March 24, 2017 .

5

See, for example, Luke Taylor, “Canada’s Gran Colombia Gold files $700 million lawsuit against Colombia over Marmato project,” Financial Post, April 10, 2017 .

6

Mina Lorena Navarro, “Luchas por lo común contra el renovado cercamiento de bienes naturales en México” Bajo el volcán 13, no. 21 (September 2013­–February 2014).

7

See Noam Chomsky, “Activismo ambiental indígena latinoamericano,” Ecoosfera, Marzo 2017 .

8

See Robert Melchior Figueroa, “Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Losses,” The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, eds. John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlossberg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

9

See Margarita Warnholtz Locht, “Represión en Michoacán,” Animal Político, April 7, 2017 .

10

Claudia Composto and Mina Lorena Navarro, “Claves de lectura para comprender el despojo y las luchas por los bienes comunes naturales en América Latina,” in Territorios en Disputa: Despojo capitalista, luchas en defensa de los bienes comunes naturales y alternativas emancipatorias para América Latina, eds. Claudia Composto and Mina Lorena Navarro (Mexico City: Bajo Tierra Ediciones, 2014).

11

See Santiago Arboleda Quiñonez, “Plan Colombia: Descivilización, genocidio, etnocidio y destierro,” in Territorios en Disputa.

12

See Vázquez, “Precedence, Earth and the Anthropocene.”

13

Eyal Weizman, Erasure: The Conflict Shoreline (Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2016).

14

See Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies (New York: Zed Books, 1999), 27.

15

See Achille Mbembe, “Difference and Self-Determination,” e-flux journal 80 (March 2017) .

16

See T. J. Demos, “The Great Transition: The Arts and Radical System Change,” e-flux architecture, April 2017 .

17

Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies, 66.

18

Vazquez, “Precedence, Earth and the Anthropocene.”







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