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"Why Isn't Mexico Rich?"
My translation of Gordon H. Hanson’s article is the cover feature this month of Mexican magazine Nexos. Professor Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego.
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Today the postman brought me…
20 Octubre de 2011, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM
Rounding Up
If resolutions are a bad idea, public resolutions might be even worse. Dreams deferred are sad things. Yet I’ve realised that my hectic and de-centralised online activity is hard, even for me, to follow. I’ve been working on a series of different projects, and the often overwhelmingly asynchronous nature of Twitter makes it even harder to make sense of the whole. I’ve often thought that I haven’t used this space as I should, so I thought that I should try to blog a bit more here as a means to keep track of my daily work. Nothing too complicated (I already take a lot of care blogging elsewhere), I’m thinking of short, simple notes. Sometimes the speed of daily life makes me feel like a Don DeLillo character, my work blurred to vanishing point by zillions of digital dots. I’ll try to have frequent round-ups here, as a way of sending postcards home, if you wish, where I curate a summary or archive of my daily intercourse working online.
The day should one day arrive when every home will have its own machine to produce a newspaper, beamed in through television or telephone circuits, and when the only publications left on news-stands will be magazines and paperbacks.
The future is in fact full of exciting possibilities for the visual arts. The time could come —the signs are already apparent— when the traditional overdominance of the printed word in European culture will collapse. With ever-increasing exposure to visual stimuli and a heightening appreciation of them, the devaluation of pictures, moving or still, to low-grade pulp for the masses on the one hand and an art so esoteric that only an elect few can understand it on the other, can be reversed.
With their ingenuity and style, and above all their rich variety of fantasy, the comic strips will have a place in the brave new world.
-George Perry, “Always a Place for Comics,” 1967
” Quote included in my PhD dissertation, Priego, Ernesto (2010) The Comic Book in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Information Studies, University College London)Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction — School of Arts, Birkbeck College London
When? Tuesday 24th May 2011 6-9 pm
Where? Birkbeck, School of Arts, Room B03, 43 Gordon Square
The papers will be collected for a special issue of postgraduate journal Dandelion, On Brevity, for autumn publication, and the discussion will be recorded for podcasting.
Chair for papers: Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck)
Papers - Henderson Downing (Birkbeck); Holly Pester (Birkbeck); Ernesto Priego (UCL); Daniel Rourke (Goldsmiths); Matt Sangster (Royal Holloway)
Chair for panel: Ariel Kahn (Roehampton/London Met Film School)
Speakers - Andy Poyiadgi (film-maker, Schizofredric); Tom Humberstone (comics artist/editor, Solipsistic Pop); Heidi James(writer, Carbon, The Mesmerist’s Daughter); Geoff Ryman, 253, Air).
Organised by: Zara Dinnen and Tony Venezia - Contemporary Fiction Seminar
Here’s a provisional running order for the short papers…
Matthew Sangster:Short Forms and Unalloyed Genre
Henderson Downing: Between the long roll of thunder and the long fine flash: a brief history of a little pamphlet bought from a pop-up shop on Redchurch Street in December 2010 on the shortest day of the year. Holly Pester: Visual Poetry: Objectness as a Necessary Shortness Ernesto Priego: Beyond [Adobe] Flash™: Webcomics as Short Digital Narratives Daniel Rourke: The Doctrine of the Similar(GIF GIF GIF)
Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction
24th May 2011, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London…
Graphic Novels as Literature: Maus, Caricature and Self-Reflexivity
Who would have thought that some ideas I originally formulated in my MA thesis (UEA 2003) would find a new life elsewhere, online, 8 years later?
Just out: THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT, curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios
This book is the result of a collective, collaborative effort. The book reflects the open, online nature of the poetic process. The genealogy of the project is reproduced in detail on its pages: blogging, email exchanges, comments on posts, etc. As a result this is as honest as poetry can get: there is no make up here, at least no extra make up: imagine a poetry anthology with behind the camera special features. Notions of authority, centrality, language, hierarchy, genre, art forms, geography are interrogated in practice in the collective creative efforts of dozens of contributors from around the world. If you are into art, digital media, social networking, blogging, electronic writing or poetry do give this little book a try. You won’t be disappointed.
