Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

@cgrbravo.bsky.social

Latin American literature & cinema | human rights & memory | Environmental humanities | Politics of affects/ emotions | Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton | Egresado de UConn, UNal., Caro & Cuervo. 👉🏽 https://www.carlosgardeazabalbravo.com

2,359 Followers 2,110 Following 316 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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The last nineteenth century German philosopher: Habermas at 90 In June 2019 I published an essay, entitled “A Republic of Discussion” in the online journal The Point.  In the essay I praised John Dewey for his open-ended idea of communication as an empirical proc...

The last nineteenth century German philosopher: Habermas at 90
- Raymond Geuss www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4...

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Que descanse en poder. Lo recordamos desde lo que queda de la esfera pública.

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Essay: As American democracy is in peril, Brazilian films offer perspective Oscar-nominated film 'The Secret Agent' shows how history is an essential tool for resisting authoritarianism.

“It became necessary to fight for memory, truth, and justice, because these crimes committed by dictatorship agents weren’t punished at that time, and have not been to this day,”
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Green trailblazers Two books place Latin America in the vanguard of climate debates. Reviews: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World, and The Climate Trial, by Gavin O'Toole

Two books place Latin America in the vanguard of climate debates. Reviews: Contesting the Climate Unthinkable, and The Climate Trial: Law and Justice on a Melting Planet @DukePress #LatinAmerica #culture #climatechange #Anthropocene #Germanwatch latamrob.substack.com/p/green-trai...

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Tomás González: un misterio sin misterio en la literatura Perfil de Tomás González: tras el mito del escritor del silencio. Esteban Duperly desentraña la vida y la poética del autor que prefiere el campo a la fama.

“Cada quien proyecta su propio Tomás González.” Un perfil /reportaje de Esteban Duperly. casamacondo.co/perfiles/tom...

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Brujas, minería y transnacionales: la precursora del gótico andino en Colombia - Cerosetenta Una lectura de La bruja de las minas, de Gregorio Sánchez Gómez, como literatura de terror y, quizá, como precursora del gótico andino.

Una lectura de “La bruja de las minas”, (1938) de Gregorio Sánchez Gómez como precursora del gótico andino en Colombia -por Andrés Arroyave cerosetenta.uniandes.edu.co/brujas-miner...

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Memory Studies - Volume 19, Number 1 Table of contents for Memory Studies, 19, 1

It is a great joy to share that the special issue “Memories in Transit” of the journal Memory Studies, co-edited by my dear María Eugenia Ulfe and me, has just been published.
We invite you to read it! 📚📖
journals.sagepub.com/toc/mss/curr...

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Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

“The headlong pursuit of A.G.I. has not just diminished the education of young people, the foundation of future progress; it has significantly hampered building support for developing systems that might help make students smarter.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

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Drug Assemblages – Policies, Counternarratives, and Local Experiences A transdisciplinary critique of global drug regimes, exploring how power, policy, and inequality intertwine across the Americas.

“Through counternarratives and regional case studies of the Americas, this edited volume investigates how prohibition, securitization, and regulation intertwine in the production of violence and inequality.”
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-8...
#openaccess

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Essay: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages Historian Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo hopes Bad Bunny's halftime show will combat "acute ignorance" about Puerto Rico and its ongoing entanglement with the United States.

Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.

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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.

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The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

Read @wlacher.bsky.social and
@yguichaoua.bsky.social in our new issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

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Ana María Reyes’s book, The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics, illustrates how González’s art continues to engage with current debates on aesthetics and politics in Colombia and Latin America. #RIP assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

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A Curated Guide to the U.S. Attack on Venezuela In this dossier, NACLA offers several pieces to help readers understand the facts about Venezuela’s history and the recent U.S. attack.

A Curated Guide to the U.S. Attack on Venezuela. North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) @nacla-report.bsky.social editors selected several articles from decades of coverage to provide you with the information you need to understand the recent events in Venezuela. nacla.org/a-curated-gu...

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Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

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The new edited volume "Paisajes del subsuelo" examines the dynamics and contradictions of Venezuela as a “modern oil nation,” offering critical perspectives on petromodernity and petroculture as a planetary superstructure.

📖🔗: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Venezuela: Del Caracazo a Maduro

¿Fue el caracazo o la debilidad de la democracia elitista? ¿Fue la constitución de 1999 impulsada por Chavez? ¿Fue el petróleo y la maldición de los recursos naturales? Hace unos años con @fdelledonne.bsky.social hicimos episodio s/Venezuela: open.spotify.com/episode/2s6b...

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AGAINST AI -

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term

you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:

we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

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You do not have to be good to be protected by the law, but the reactionary argument is explicitly that the law only protects the good, as defined by them. That argument is worth rejecting over and over again, both domestically and internationally.

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Wild day to have slept in as a Latin Americanist.

My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela and the rule of law. This is not how to build trust and stability.

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Anoche hicimos un exitoso exorcismo comunitario del 2025.

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Disco Los diablos del ritmo en versión cd. Disco Ondatropica en versión cd. Disco 14 cañonazos bailables de 1973 en vinilo. Disco Desesperanza de los Meridian Brothers en versión cd.

La pava congona de Andrés Landero en buena compañía para despedir este ajetreado 2025.

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Book Stack Over a Table: HATE - The Uses of a Powerful Emotion by Şeyda Kurt
The Grave of Capital by Jodi Dean
The Chilean Dictatorship Novel by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
States of Defeat by Eric A. Vázquez Films in physical format laid out on a table include Arturo Ripstein’s "Profundo carmesí" / "Deep Crimson," Les Blank’s documentary “The burden of dreams”, Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate," T. Gilliam’s "Brazil," Scorsese’s "The Last Temptation of Christ," and Kubrick’s "Eyes Wide Shut."

El botín de diciembre.
December spoils.

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Eduardo Mendieta, In memoriam.

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Make a Bond movie academic: Never Say Never Again to Alt-ac.

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Hojas de plátano y masa para tamales en una mesa de cocina.

Ultra authentic, natural, non-staged, tamales pre-prep pic.

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Los mejores 50 libros de 2025 | La Lista CasaMacondo La Lista CasaMacondo 2025 reúne los mejores 50 libros del año, elegidos por lectores y librerías de toda Colombia. Ficción, poesía y no ficción destacadas

Los mejores libros del 2025 en Colombia. Buen trabajo de los editores de Casa Macondo y su jurado casamacondo.co/la-lista/los...

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Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

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A calico cat walking in the snow.

Happy winter solstice.

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La Jornada: Timbre Marciano

Cristina Rivera Garza comenta “Marciano”, la nueva novela de Nona Fernández www.jornada.com.mx/2025/12/16/o...

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