Carl Fischer
@carlospescador.bsky.social
Opinions are my own. Prof of Chilean and Latin American lit and film at Fordham, author of Locas excepciones: La vía chilena a la disidencia sexual, occasional translator and curator, recovering former dept chair, he/him 🏳️🌈
Just published in @jlacstravesia.bsky.social : on whiteness in Chile, José Antonio Kast, and fascist aesthetics. Edited by Jens Andermann & Rory O’Bryen for part 2 of their dossier “The New Right and Latin America – Affects, Discourse, Media, Performance.” Elle Woods, eat your heart out!
September 22, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Just published in @jlacstravesia.bsky.social : on whiteness in Chile, José Antonio Kast, and fascist aesthetics. Edited by Jens Andermann & Rory O’Bryen for part 2 of their dossier “The New Right and Latin America – Affects, Discourse, Media, Performance.” Elle Woods, eat your heart out!
Buenas noticias: está confirmado Hernán Díaz como conferencista inaugural del próximo congreso de @iilioficial.bsky.social en Gotemburgo, Suecia.
Aquí va más información: www.gu.se/en/languages...
Aquí va más información: www.gu.se/en/languages...
September 8, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Buenas noticias: está confirmado Hernán Díaz como conferencista inaugural del próximo congreso de @iilioficial.bsky.social en Gotemburgo, Suecia.
Aquí va más información: www.gu.se/en/languages...
Aquí va más información: www.gu.se/en/languages...
If you’re not reading my colleague Robb Hernández’s work, what are you even doing
In "Transplanetary Americas," Robb Hernández explores how the modern space race has driven Latinx artists to look up and attune to expressions derived from the solar system and beyond. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/h90oYId
August 20, 2026 at 2:03 AM
If you’re not reading my colleague Robb Hernández’s work, what are you even doing
There are very few things more 🇺🇸-coded than believing the law should apply to everyone else except you. Also: #abolishICE
“We are living in fear in my own country.” He voted for President Trump three times. He never imagined the immigration policies he supported would ensnare his own wife. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
August 17, 2026 at 12:02 PM
There are very few things more 🇺🇸-coded than believing the law should apply to everyone else except you. Also: #abolishICE
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Historian of fascism here! A citizen was murdered today by a wannabe fascist regime!
January 24, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Historian of fascism here! A citizen was murdered today by a wannabe fascist regime!
Most read article in Revista Iberoamericana is by the great Andreea Marinescu 👇 in the dossier on Latin American fascist aesthetics that @benjaminloy.bsky.social and I edited!
📑 Most read in the latest issue of Revista Iberoamericana
‘Las madres de Plaza de Mayo y la interrupción de los fascismos transhistóricos’ by Andreea Marinescu.
Available to read online at: bit.ly/madresPlazaMayo
@carlospescador.bsky.social
‘Las madres de Plaza de Mayo y la interrupción de los fascismos transhistóricos’ by Andreea Marinescu.
Available to read online at: bit.ly/madresPlazaMayo
@carlospescador.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Most read article in Revista Iberoamericana is by the great Andreea Marinescu 👇 in the dossier on Latin American fascist aesthetics that @benjaminloy.bsky.social and I edited!
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New Yorkers! This Fri Nov 21 3:30pm I’m presenting my book Un pais entre dos tiempos (@lenguaycirculo.bsky.social / @cbamadrid.es) at my dept at Fordham U (150 W62 St) with my dear friends Carey Kasten and @carlospescador.bsky.social. Come by and join the conversation!
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New Yorkers! This Fri Nov 21 3:30pm I’m presenting my book Un pais entre dos tiempos (@lenguaycirculo.bsky.social / @cbamadrid.es) at my dept at Fordham U (150 W62 St) with my dear friends Carey Kasten and @carlospescador.bsky.social. Come by and join the conversation!
Happy to share this special issue, made possible largely thanks to my stay last semester at @kwi-essen.bsky.social
New Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana
Edited by @carlospescador.bsky.social and Benjamin Loy, contributions explore how fascism and authoritarianism have shaped art, politics & culture across 20th-century Latin America.
Browse online 🔗 bit.ly/AestheticsAuthoritarianism
Edited by @carlospescador.bsky.social and Benjamin Loy, contributions explore how fascism and authoritarianism have shaped art, politics & culture across 20th-century Latin America.
Browse online 🔗 bit.ly/AestheticsAuthoritarianism
October 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Happy to share this special issue, made possible largely thanks to my stay last semester at @kwi-essen.bsky.social
Mariátegui was right about basically everything #elproblemadelatierra
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Mariátegui was right about basically everything #elproblemadelatierra
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
Tonight I’m helping to launch this special issue at CCNY along with Claudia Salazar & Mariano López:
www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/lau...
www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/lau...
October 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Tonight I’m helping to launch this special issue at CCNY along with Claudia Salazar & Mariano López:
www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/lau...
www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/lau...
¿Dónde está Julia Chuñil?
‘We’re still in the dark’: a missing land defender and the deadly toll of land conflict on Indigenous people
‘We’re still in the dark’: a missing land defender and the deadly toll of land conflict on Indigenous people
Julia Chuñil is one of 146 land defenders who were killed or went missing last year, a third of them from Indigenous communities
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
¿Dónde está Julia Chuñil?
My hot take on the big-deal Evita revival in London (which I did see, located as it is at the intersection of my gay interests in musicals and Latin America) is that it weirdly implies that Evita wouldn’t have died so tragically if Perón hadn’t resisted Britain’s informal imperialism in Argentina.
August 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My hot take on the big-deal Evita revival in London (which I did see, located as it is at the intersection of my gay interests in musicals and Latin America) is that it weirdly implies that Evita wouldn’t have died so tragically if Perón hadn’t resisted Britain’s informal imperialism in Argentina.
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Muy feliz de empezar a compartir el trabajo de muchos años. Este jueves en @cbamadrid.es presentamos Un país entre dos tiempos, un intento de mapear los debates y procesos políticos que han atravesado la historia española reciente, y de recuperar perspectivas útiles para el presente. ¡Nos vemos!
¿Cómo entender la vorágine política que ha supuesto la última década en nuestro país?
Este jueves presentamos el ensayo "Un país entre dos tiempos", de @vrupu.bsky.social.
Con @gzapata.bsky.social
Coeditado con @cbamadrid.es.
Este jueves presentamos el ensayo "Un país entre dos tiempos", de @vrupu.bsky.social.
Con @gzapata.bsky.social
Coeditado con @cbamadrid.es.
June 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Muy feliz de empezar a compartir el trabajo de muchos años. Este jueves en @cbamadrid.es presentamos Un país entre dos tiempos, un intento de mapear los debates y procesos políticos que han atravesado la historia española reciente, y de recuperar perspectivas útiles para el presente. ¡Nos vemos!
A statue, along the River Liffey in Dublin, of William Brown (1777-1857), “founding father” of the Argentine Navy who “defended Argentina against Brazil” according to the plaque on the base, written in English and Spanish. If Wikipedia is to be believed, this was in the Battle of Juncal in 1827.
June 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A statue, along the River Liffey in Dublin, of William Brown (1777-1857), “founding father” of the Argentine Navy who “defended Argentina against Brazil” according to the plaque on the base, written in English and Spanish. If Wikipedia is to be believed, this was in the Battle of Juncal in 1827.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, lucid as ever, on cultural memory, El Salvador, Marco Rubio, and the deeply interconnected histories of US imperialism, from Latin America to SE Asia.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
June 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Viet Thanh Nguyen, lucid as ever, on cultural memory, El Salvador, Marco Rubio, and the deeply interconnected histories of US imperialism, from Latin America to SE Asia.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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#Colloquium: On Wednesday, Thyssen@KWI Fellow @carlospescador.bsky.social examines Patagonia’s incorporation into Chile and Argentina through nationalist discourses linking past and present, genocide, and feminist critiques of geopolitical expansionism.
👉https://shorturl.at/Nn9jL
👉https://shorturl.at/Nn9jL
June 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
#Colloquium: On Wednesday, Thyssen@KWI Fellow @carlospescador.bsky.social examines Patagonia’s incorporation into Chile and Argentina through nationalist discourses linking past and present, genocide, and feminist critiques of geopolitical expansionism.
👉https://shorturl.at/Nn9jL
👉https://shorturl.at/Nn9jL
Reposted by Carl Fischer
This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.
MSCL’s main character, Angela Chase, is both loved and abhorred for her over-analyzing. Her fraught monologues have been read as both the center of the show’s relatability & as whining and entitled. @cmceleney.bsky.social probes this ambivalence in "A Lover’s Discord" post45.org/2025/05/a-lo...
A Lover’s Discord: Angela’s Overanalyzing - Post45
“But what above love?” asks Rita Felski in The Limits of Critique, as part of her attempt to reconsider the role that “passionate attachments” play in academic criticism.((Rita Felski, The Limits of C...
post45.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.
Hermoso video que armó el partido de Pepe Mujica como homenaje: youtu.be/8j4oARl0Zss?...
Despedida a Pepe Mujica. ¡Hasta siempre viejo querido!
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May 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Hermoso video que armó el partido de Pepe Mujica como homenaje: youtu.be/8j4oARl0Zss?...
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Embodied Sexualities. LASA preconference in San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2025.
May 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Embodied Sexualities. LASA preconference in San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2025.
Exciting (and long awaited) new book just arrived from José Miguel Palacios. Can’t wait to read.
April 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Exciting (and long awaited) new book just arrived from José Miguel Palacios. Can’t wait to read.
Here in Essen for the next few months, in great (and very illustrious) company
Welcome to our 10th cohort of International Fellows! 👋 Find out more about Martin Babička, Stefan Laffin, Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier, @carlospescador.bsky.social and Academy in Exile Fellow Carlos Gerardo Zúñiga Nieto here:
www.kulturwissenschaften.de/welcome-10th...
www.kulturwissenschaften.de/welcome-10th...
April 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Here in Essen for the next few months, in great (and very illustrious) company
The only time I ever saw him speak, in 2010, he gave a terrible speech about how European cultures were simply superior to those of the global south. But Conversación en la catedral still blew my mind. He was an independent thinker like no other, I’ll give him that. elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Las celebridades que rodearon a Mario Vargas Llosa
El escritor, premio Nobel de Literatura, estuvo acompañado por políticos, escritores, actores y destacados artistas que marcaron un hito en la historia
elpais.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The only time I ever saw him speak, in 2010, he gave a terrible speech about how European cultures were simply superior to those of the global south. But Conversación en la catedral still blew my mind. He was an independent thinker like no other, I’ll give him that. elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Reading my brilliant colleague @zeinmurib.bsky.social ‘s well-researched piece about repeated efforts by the gay and lesbian movement to sideline trans people (and the consequences of that sidelining today) is a great way to spend 5 minutes of your day today: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.
Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.
slate.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reading my brilliant colleague @zeinmurib.bsky.social ‘s well-researched piece about repeated efforts by the gay and lesbian movement to sideline trans people (and the consequences of that sidelining today) is a great way to spend 5 minutes of your day today: slate.com/news-and-pol...