There is this article that has good, nay, essential bibliography, but I am looking for an article I read a few days ago. The post-Mexican era began recently, as NAFTA collapsed I believe, and I need to understand these things more. We are now in an entity that replaces the one called Mexico. One important book is Tarek Elhaik, The Incurable-Image. Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts. A now classic is Roger Bartra, Blood, Ink and Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition (2002), and here is Elhaik on Bartra.
I am interested in post-Mexican not in Bartra’s optimistic sense but in the sense that we are in a post-Mexican entity, not under national control, in which civic life also seems pushed to the margins. This feeling I had in the summer, that Budapest was New Orleans; now I feel Oaxaca also is and is post-Mexican in that sense. The scenery is a stage set for the espresso bars, and so on.
One can complain about the uniformity of global hipster culture but that isn’t all there is to say by far, and I am interested in the post-Mexican specifically, not just the bland hipsterism that pushes out actual culture (although I’m interested in that too). Mexico has been pushed aside by global hipster culture, but Mexico itself is also post-Mexican.
There are these words, quoted in this smart article about post-Mexicanity:
¿Por qué usan guantes blancos para hojear los pasaportes?
¿Por qué jamás se rozan en los elevadores?
¿Si caigo en dos categorías me corresponde other?
¿Y en la cama, piensan en inglés o en español?
¿Cómo van a coger si apenas se conocen?
¿Se considera todavía un café con leche o ya es un latte?
¿Extrañas más el clima o la comida?
¿Escribir es la obsesión que encuentra su forma o la forma que encuentra su obsesión?
¿Nos lo dijo María después de llevarla a la Coahuila?
¿Tantas veces en San Diego y no haber ido al zoológico?
¿Si sí sí y si no no, no? (2010: 9-11).
Also: I want to read Dark Academia and I can do it on JSTOR, but I want the actual book.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 