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Bite to the City: Carlos Fuentes and Vlad
Debates on the ‘right to the city’ are proceeding apace with the recent publication of David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution [2012]. In Harvey’s hands, the...
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The City of Palaces
I was reflecting recently on the degree to which the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City has made a presence within the literature of Mexico and thought that no better source to turn to would be...
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The Shadows of Revolution
With a view to tracing further representations of space in Mexico City following an earlier blog post of mine on The City of Palaces my attention has been recently turning to the work of Paco Ignacio...
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Chasing Spaces and Shadows of Revolution
Continuing my sometime theme on the representations of space in Mexico City, I want to continue my interest in the work of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) and this time his novella De Paso (1986),...
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The Pallid Shadows of Revolution
Continuing my engagement with the novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) on Mexico, my attention here turns to el monstruo, the monster, that is his book Retornamos como sombras (Returning as...
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The Mexification of Modernity
Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Rebecca West, Charles Macomb Flandrau, and Sybille Bedford are just some of the literary greats that visited and wrote travelogues on Mexico. Indeed,...
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Aldous Huxley and the “brave new world” of pyramids or progress
In picking up on my earlier post on the ‘foreign flâneur’ in Mexico and the discussion of Sybille Bedford, my attention now turns to Aldous Huxley. Recent controversy has been rightly raised due to the...
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Mexico at the Hour of Combat
Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna’s Photographs of the Mexican Revolution is both a new book as well as a travelling exhibition based on the Sabino Osuna Collection of 427 glass negatives of...
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Modelo Antiguo and New Mexican Grandeur
On the theme of space and Mexico City on this blog my attention has thus far spanned the novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II to include The Shadow of the Shadow [1986], Just Passing Through [1986] and...
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The Dark Side of the State
With the action thriller Escape Plan, starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, due for general release, the Guardian has circulated a list of the potential best top ten jailbreak films....
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The Fear of the Power of the State
The fear of the power of the state took a hold of me completely — Alberto Ulloa Bornemann In attempting to develop a focus on the provisionally hegemonic expression of class rule in Mexico and its...
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Fragments of Revolution
In my research on the Monument to the Revolution, as one of the foremost commemorative spatial sites of state power in Mexico City, I have previously written on For the Desk Drawer how it is a...
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Novel Reading in 2014
At the start of 2014 I noted down the novels read over the course of the year to see what it might reveal to me and anybody else about my reading habits. That said, I was already aware that the list...
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