Excited to be part of this double panel on the body in Latin American Science Fiction at LASA in San Fran.

In a climate first, this ad will appear on the Super Bowl vimeo.com/1054574072 #LaterisTooLate #ProtectWhatYouLove

"Waymo robotaxis have logged 33 million miles... Compared with cars driven by humans, Waymo vehicles have been involved in 62 percent fewer police-reported crashes, 78 percent fewer crashes that resulted in injury and 81 percent fewer crashes severe enough to deploy the air bags." t.ly/mLa0x

Author Steve Roth: "And here’s what’s even more egregious: that concentrated wealth is strangling our economy, our economic growth, our national prosperity. Wealth concentration drives a vicious, downward cycle, throttling the very engine of wealth creation itself." t.ly/uL4Ua

We have a new paper out in @science.org today, led by Helge Goessling from #AWI: The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo 👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social This is what we found (🧵1/8)

@annakornbluh.bsky.social A non-academic friend sent me the following post on x. My reply was "too late capitalism," and then sent him a screenshot of your book.

"As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality. Far from organising the world, it will be the world that has to adjust to the disorganising impact of America’s polarised and depressingly unintelligent democracy." www.ft.com/content/fe39...

Si los mexicanos son aproximadamente la mitad de la población indocumentada, entonces deportar a todo mexicano sin papeles resultará en un desplome de entre 500 mil millones-un billón de dólares, lo que representa entre 2 y 3 por ciento del PIB de Estados Unidos. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...

"Es un libro muy bueno pero no es novela. Sí tiene una historia pero no es historiografía, más bien literatura, pero no es ficción. Ofrece una narrativa pero no es tradicional. También hay polifonía, intertextualidad, (neo-)extractivismo y una crítica mordaz." -Django sobre La compañía de Gerber

Post a movie GIF from the year you were born.

just saw alex garland’s civil war movie (private press screening) and it is the most harrowing and stress-inducing thing i have seen in awhile

Leading geologists say no to "Anthropocene." www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/o...

The answer is yes and yes. “Given the extreme lethality of the[ir] conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide? Could they be convicted?” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The lucky 13th volume of the Critical Mexican Studies is out is a major one: Carlos Monsiváis's Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist, edited and translated by Norma Klahn and Ilana Dann Luna, with a preface by Marta Lamas. 30% at Vanderbilt University Press with the code 15FRIENDS

Con ganas de conseguir este libro del historiador y economista Diego Castañeda. Desiguales: Una historia de la desigualdad en México.

"Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer…the first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years." tiny.cc/1gt6wz

"Time and attention are not something we can replenish. They are what our life is. When we offer our time and attention, we are not merely spending and paying, we are giving out lives." Marc Schulz and Robert Waldinger news.uchicago.edu/scientific-s...

Provocative, high-level discussion about the Metacrisis with Daniel Schmachtenberger from Oct 23. A.I., the climate emergency, species extinction, global capitalism, and what, if anything, can be done individually and collectively about these colossal, interlinked problems. t.ly/VHQd5

im so tired of the argument that "oh ya the world isn't getting worse it's just social media making everything seem bad." bro the world is on fire

Congreso de Estéticas de Ciencia Ficción: Mundos que colapsan y ecosistemas que resisten: Estéticas cienciaficcionales ante la emergencia climática De 29 nov. a 1 de dic. Registrar su asistencia en t.ly/iUNps Consulta el programa en t.ly/K71iM La transmición en vivo del evento: t.ly/IUe1V

Exposing the Big “Free Market” Myth with Author Naomi Oreskes, science historian and co-author Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010). www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJV7...

Upcoming talk: "Vulnerability,the Racial Capitalocene and the Climate Emergency Narrative" by Johan Höglund. November 20, 2023 5 PM - 6 PM (local time in India?) meet.google.com/gur-zank-mjr

“To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup.” 🧪🦑

A fin de mes en CDMX participaré en un congreso mexicano sobre la ciencia ficción y la emergencía climática. Edmundo Paz Soldán dará la conferencia magistral. Todo será emitido en vivo/línea en YouTube y Facebook.

The six forthcoming books in the Critical Mexican Studies series at Vanderbilt University Press

Feliz por haber conseguido este número especial de Mamut, sobre ecoficción, de 2018.

"Qualities of Heat”…my best-of contemporary-music playlist composed of the best songs I heard released between July-Sept, 2023. link HERE: t.ly/Tk2Sm *Title was taken from an interview I heard with Jeff Goodell, the author of the book "The Heat Will Kill You First."

"Since its release in 2020, Mr. Saito’s book “Capital in the Anthropocene” has sold more than 500,000 copies. [This] philosophy professor has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalism’s ability to solve the problems people see around them." t.ly/7G2kY

Good piece. “Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right’s Dangerous Transphobia… An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for the current onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S.” https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/

At some point in the not-too-distant future, I believe--and fear--that the majority of all literature will be climate literature: literature that is primarily about the climate emergency and catastrophic environmental breakdown. The same for cultural production more broadly. I truly hope I'm wrong.

Este libro "tentacular" y posthumano, editado por Azucena Castro, saldrá en algún momento este verano en la editorial Bartlebooth . "Futuros Multiespecie. Prácticas vinculantes para un planeta en emergencia" https://bartlebooth.org/

My first complaint about Bluesky: users cannot edit a post? The only way to do so is to delete the post and rewrite it with the correction? Who could possibly have thought this would be an acceptable design element?

“Hay una necesidad de esa palabra que se usa ahora que es ‘contenido’, algo que excede la capacidad humana de consumo y de reflexión....entonces estamos produciendo imágenes y sonido para un vacío incomprensible”. -Lucrecia Martel t.ly/01GyC

IX Congreso Internacional de Narrativa Fantástica «Reconfiguraciones del canon fantástico (moderno y contemporáneo) y Tributo a Gonzalo Portals Zubiate» Lima, Perú 2, 3 y 4 de noviembre de 2023 Modalidad híbrida (presencial y virtual) t.ly/20XgU

"Thanks to the advent of AI-powered image generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, some are now fabricating entire feeds of internet personalities that don't actually exist [such as 'Milla Sofia,' pictured here]." https://futurism.com/ai-generated-influencers