The wildflower corner garden I planted before leaving Chicago for the summer kind of grew out of control! Also, some cempasúchitl (marigolds) were born.
27.08.2025 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@alfonsofierroo.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Latin American literature @Northwestern (antes Berkeley y UNAM). Urban utopianism in revolutionary Mexico, Latin American futurisms, Urban Struggles
The wildflower corner garden I planted before leaving Chicago for the summer kind of grew out of control! Also, some cempasúchitl (marigolds) were born.
27.08.2025 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hice un mapa de los jardines vecinales en la Unidad Tlatelolco un ambicioso proyecto de vivienda social de los 60s que sufrió con la transición neoliberal de los 80s pero que sus vecinos y locatarios han continuado cuidando como espacio de vida
23.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Esto que escribí sobre arquitecturas migrantes entre México y usa
13.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Wrote a text on a beautiful exhibit in MasContext (Chicago) on migrant architectures: Mexican appropriations of urban space in Chicago and architecture built in Mexico using remittances from the US. Here's an English version: open.substack.com/pub/alfonsof...
05.07.2025 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Escribí sobre una expo que pone en diálogo arquitecturas migrantes: por un lado, apropiaciones urbanas de migrantes mexicanxs en Chicago; por el otro, un estudio sobre la arquitectura construida en México con remesas enviadas desde Estados Unidos arquine.com/arquitectura...
03.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Meanwhile in Chicago, sunflowers are growing nonstop in the corner I am taking care of
26.06.2025 23:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A great book on the horizontal coalition of indigenous communities known in Colombia as the Minga
21.06.2025 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just found this 1982 history of popular dancing cultures in Mexico City: its various rhythms and dances, the urban spaces that hosted and nurtured these cultures, the stars and salient figures, as well as the cinematographic memory of long forgotten places like the legendary Salón México.
16.06.2025 23:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Arquitectura de Remesas/ Remittances Architecture by Inés Vschez, an ethnographic study of borderland architecture in a small rural town in central Mexico
13.06.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wrote a little note on the matter (in Spanish though): open.substack.com/pub/alfonsof...
07.06.2025 19:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For a few months now, the México City collective Ciudad Detalle has been organizing a public film club in a park on Friday afternoons. Yesterday we watched El año de la peste (1979), a dystopian film by Felipe Cazals
07.06.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A self-published study on the origins of Mexico City's Popular Urban Movement (MAP) which, among many other struggles, has coordinated the rise of many cooperative housing projects on the peripheries of Mexico's capital
06.06.2025 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exacto! Los gestos estéticos me gustan mucho a mí también. Y su lógica de construcción siempre abierta al cambio también es linda
05.06.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Loooove allá this architecture
05.06.2025 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This exhibit brought together the work of Leticia Pardo and Inés Vschez, but Sarah's work is great!
05.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Went to see yesterday a beautiful exhibit in Chicago that brings together two urban research projects: one on Mexican architectural appropriations in Chicago and the other about the architecture that has emerged in rural Mexico with remittances sent from the US. Will write about it soon.
05.06.2025 19:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Escribí sobre el reciente desalojo en el Foro Alicia, un ataque más a un espacio cultural autogestivo fundamental desde hace 30 años para la ciudad de México open.substack.com/pub/alfonsof...
03.06.2025 13:38 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0El Foro Alicia fue intervenido por las fuerzas armadas la semana pasada. Un ataque más a un espacio de contracultura, organización vecinal y resistencia de larga data en Ciudad de México. No al desalojo, sí a los espacios culturales independientes
02.06.2025 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Studies for possible futures
31.05.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check out this mini beauty: Talking Futures, a utopian handbook (literally)
30.05.2025 14:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Poco a poquito crece el jardín. A base de regalos de colegas y otros proyectos de intercambio (el Rogers Park Seed Library). Y siempre jugando y aprendiendo sobre la marcha
30.05.2025 00:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An archaeology of salsa music in NYC. This book traces the venues where nuoyorican salsa emerged and thrived in the 1970s through posters of legendary concerts, photos, and memories of these places told by the latine communities for which they were (and still are) full of meaning.
29.05.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lol, I don't even remember where I got my copy from!
29.05.2025 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's very fun, definitely an interesting case of Mexican sci fi!
29.05.2025 01:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mejicanos en el Espacio is a parody of space operas. In contrast to the epic overtones of North American and European space operas, this novel is chaotic, absurd, funny and witty. Ultimately, it is a satire of Mexican political life and organization, but in outer space.
29.05.2025 00:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Escribí una pequeña nota sobre el barrio San Pedro de los Pinos. Dedicada al entrañable editor Ernesto Denot, en cuya editorial infantil en este barrio trabajé un tiempo y a quien quería honrar con un texto desde su muerte.
19.05.2025 17:32 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"talking about books is the best of conversations. But the habit of chatting is being forgotten. People no longer stop to chat on the bookstore's entrance, there are no more cafés where to chat, people no longer visit a friend's house just to chat...this art, beautiful and joyful, is lost"
12.05.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A conversation on the love for (rare) books by a Brazilian librarian from the early twentieth century (also, one of the organizers of the mythic 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna). Beautifully published in three booklets by Merlina in Mexico City
12.05.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Camino a Irvine para la gran reunión mexicanista. A mí me toca hablar el sábado de José Revueltas y su análisis novelístico de la renta y la especulación urbana.
30.04.2025 15:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Va!
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