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31 | 2025 Deuil et mémoire en Amérique latine Revue spécialisée dans l’étude de la mémoire et de l’identité des territoires d’Amérique

Here is the full issue of Amerika, with a dossier of related essays by Daniel Cecchini, Horacio Convertini, Roberto Oltramonti, Sven Pötting, Soledad Quereilhac, Rosendo Ruiz, and Sabine Schlickers. A great resource for anyone interested in El #eternauta. journals.openedition.org/amerika/21904

Time Travel in El eternauta The first version of Héctor Germán Osterheld’s El eternauta (illustrated by Francisco Solano López) appeared, serially, in the magazine Hora Cero Semanal between 1957 and 1959. Season one of the Ne...

New essay on El eternauta (the 2025 Netflix show + the comic)!

Featuring: algorithmic anxieties of influence, #AI, alien invasions, and doubled digital monsters.

journals.openedition.org/amerika/21993

Many thanks to the editor, Néstor Ponce!
(Link to the full #Eleternauta dossier in comments)

And here's the first page...

The cover of Macedonio's book 'Teorías,' which uses an image made of three superimposed high-contrast red and white photos of the author's face.

Sure / the essay is pretty long but it is found in this book:

www.abebooks.com/book-search/...

He was into the revolution of opening up the limits of the self + being, and so the jokes he loved used contradictions + playful paradoxes /// but his theory is a great tool for asking: where is the pleasure + where is the surprise for the people laughing? (Without requiring that I join in.)

The theory of humor that I've always liked was by Macedonio Fernández -- he wrote that laughter was produced by a combination of surprise and pleasure. But this really left open a lot of difference in terms of what different groups found pleasurable / and also how the surprise was structured...

Amazing!

... in terms of delivering to the people who are laughing a feeling of punching up + challenging powerful structures of authority... but the charge is sparking a different kind of revolution.

I feel you. For me though, when I see people laugh at those jokes (that I don't like and don't laugh at), I conclude that the jokes are funny. Just, not to me. Those people feel the psychic charge, feel an upward punch... a joke about elitist professors + 'gender ideology' maybe feels similar...

I'm always a bit suspicious of big theories of laughter that don't include jokes that are racist/sexist/vile... the question always returns: who determines if something is frightening ? Or which order needs to be upturned / which revolution calls out to be joined?

Similar to many examples of iconoclasm. See Finbarr Flood.
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English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street.

If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

Minneapolis turning into a war zone

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Absolute monstrousness.

Irish man risks US retaliation for unmasking thousands of Ice officers online Dominick Skinner started publishing identities last year and is assisted by over 500 volunteers across America

An Irish man responsible for leaking the identities of thousands of US immigration enforcement officers has said he will continue his work until the Trump administration stops targeting immigrant communities.

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

Sent you a note! Thanks for doing this.

Super interesting. Thank you.

Under Pressure to Prove ROI, a University Closes Its Press Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value propo...

"In reality, closing the press will cut relatively little from the university’s overall budget. The press has two full-time employees and an annual budget of roughly $300,000; its partner institution [...] pays for production costs and handles distribution.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Alabama citizen detained by ICE twice asks judge for class action Venegas was arrested on two separate job sites this year

www.al.com/news/2025/10...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

I had a great time reviewing this fantastic book by @mateojarquin.bsky.social for the @h-diplo.bsky.social roundtable! networks.h-net.org/group/discus.... I also ended up with an extra copy of his book and will send it for free to one lucky person who reposts this post! 🗃️ #history #freebook

The Curatorial Condition In The Curatorial Condition, Beatrice von Bismarck considers the field of activity and knowledge that relates to the exhibiting of art and culture. The curatorial, in her analysis, is a domain of prac...

Have you read this one? I liked it. www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-...