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"America, América" by @GregGrandin already was one of the best history books about the region. Now it is also an urgent one. I wrote about that and discussed the idea of Latin America and its "immanent critique" to the U.S. "Thirty Yards from Revolution" www.theideasletter.org/essay/thirty...

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I guess we all have a story to tell, including the country that brought wild salmon population to the brink of extinction. "They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum." It never gets old. www.hola.com/us/lifestyle...

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The US has already killed more people in their military strikes against civilian boats in Latin America during the last two months (83, almost all civilians) than during the entire Grenada Invasion of 1983 (69 Grenadian and Cuban fighters).

On Tuesday, Norway “paused” the work of the ethics council of its sovereign wealth fund, so it can keep its cozy relationship w/ Israel & big tech. For those interested, Ecozon@ just published what I wrote on Norwegian identity and it’s entanglement with oil&extractivism. ecozona.eu/article/view...

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"With or Without Oil," open access, my piece on Norwegian love x fossil fuels and nature. ecozona.eu/article/view...

On the tricky Norwegian romance with nature and with extractivism. A piece I wrote apropos the movie "Nordsjøen". "With or Without Oil: Nordsjøen and the Persistence of Norwegian Exceptionalism" And it's open access! pdf and all. ecozona.eu/article/view... #MarineLife

Here @andrewmueller.bsky.social was asking about optimism, Mileism, Peronism and if Milei is something really new (short answer: Yes.)

¡Perro! (bajando la montaña escuchando "Yendo de la cama al living")

Scott Bessent (and Summers before him) sees that the battle for the U.S. soul is in Latin America, between their liberal allies and even the most modesta ttempts for empathy and social reform. Banks and carriers, or welfare and joy. He got the song wrong, but the clash right.

US navy and the CIA carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific Latin America, while JP Morgan global CEO flies down to Buenos Aires flanked by Condoleezza Rice and Tony Blair to shore up ultraright Milei's government. America América www.infobae.com/economia/202...

Disobedience against barbarism. My piece in the @nybooks, "When a Salmon Strays" www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Acá Omar Genovese, se mete en los túneles de la ciudad para hacer una reseña de "Acá Falta Alguien", casi tan rara como la novela, pero mejor. Y que en la versión impresa aparece junto a Derridá. La revolución es un sueño enfermo. perfil.com/noticias/cul...

"A new life cycle amid the ecological breakdown.” Two years of work. Biologists, fishermen, anthropologists, translators, journalists to reconstruct the massive social and environmental changes a salmon lived in her journey across the Americas, from Oregon to Paraná. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Hace poco leí el libro "Acá falta alguien" de Ernesto Semán @eseman.bsky.social Comparto algunas de mis impresiones en este video. youtu.be/zKw2JUKSybw

The US is already there... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Las salmoneras hacen su nuevo intento en Tierra del Fuego, en una combinación de poderío económico, espejismos e irrealidades. En medio de eso, todos nosotros: panamarevista.com/el-oro-rosa/

“América Latina es, al fin y al cabo, tan desigual como beligerante.” Tremendo trabajo de la Universidad de Texas en Austin y Revista Anfibia con links (al final) a las historias de las cosas que funcionan, el presente de dónde saldrá un futuro mejor. www.revistaanfibia.com/la-persisten...

En Chile, la candidata oficialista de centroizquierda va contra una de derecha, uno de ultraderecha, y otro de ultra-ultra derecha. Todos apoyan menos controles, menos impuestos, más subsidios. Hay más consenso sobre las salmoneras que sobre la democracia. eldesconcierto.cl/2025/07/23/d...

From Ten Ten Peninsula, Chiloé

Henos aquí che... “El populismo tiene que desaparecer”: Mario Lugones debutó en público con críticas a la salud como derecho www.eldiarioar.com/1_bbed06?utm...

Great short in anticipation of Germán Vergara's entry about animal agency in the Oxford Handbook of Global Animal History. iac.gatech.edu/featured-new...

On Perón and "Rerum Novarum", and how he thought it as a means for the evangelization of a labor base of Marxist and Anarchist background into what will be known as "Third Position" or simply Peronism. Not bad for today's standards of conservative barbaric nightmare...

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Finally! Open access for Marambio's wonderful visual essay: "De mi sangre: Un ensayo sobre la menopausia". A small, delicate masterpiece packed in just '24. In Spanish (and Eng and Fr). For subt, go to settings x your preferred option. A work made at University of Bergen. youtu.be/n5Ljf9Rlru8?...

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Jon Fosse

This, by Greg Grandin, is brilliant. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sant Jordi in Bergen! Books, roses, medialunas, even sunlight!

Capybaras roamed free until the 1980s. Developers built gated communities and expelled them. They came back. An Argentine billionaire, also developer, promotes their sterilization--with a drug designed for male pigs before they're slaughter, so they taste better. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/w...

Ey!

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Norway now. "They cancel their holidays to New York: Totally fine not to spend money in the US."

Trump's hallucinatory rant against Haitian immigrants pervaded Israel's military reality. The language of genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Estamos en el momento en el que lo viejo no termina de morir y lo nuevo ya está recontra nacido y maduro.

Everything about empathy and care will be woke. All of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oliver Sacks, March 25, 1963.

In 2016, year 0 of the Highway to Oligarchocracy, Hillary’ explained her derision of Bernie’ supporters in the fact that they had “deep a desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare—that we need to go as far as Scandinavia, whatever that means.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

I have no idea about this, but it was part of a talk with "Harvard University professor and HAPPINESS EXPERT Arthur Brooks". Which might explain why he concluded we really don't need university professors anymore. www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...

Hei! My review of "Creatures of Fashion", great book by John Soluri on market experiments in Patagonia. Indigenous people, sheep, seals, guanacos, pumas, grasslands--everything massacred, preserved, transplanted, whatever works for global trade. academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...

If Norway is thinking ahead (govt, universities, colleagues), it should start offering good opportunities to the so many talented colleagues and students looking for a reasonable place to do their damn jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The English version of the great book by @svampam.bsky.social is out in August, but you can preorder with a discount with the code below. For those interested in the recent history of progressive govts, extractivism and political identities in Latin America, this is your book!

In the impending global confrontation, American right-wing slash of the welfare state is aggressively confronted by European labour slash of the welfare state. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...