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subtitles
This is call for help!The University of Minnesota Press, publisher of Posthegemony, the book, tell me that they want it to have a subtitle.It looks as though they are particularly keen for "Latin America" to feature in that subtitle.Options so far include:* "Posthegemony: Cultural Theory and Latin America"* "Posthegemony: Affect, Habit, and the Latin American Multitude"* "Posthegemony: Toward a Latin American Multitude"* "Posthegemony: Rethinking the Political from Latin America"* "Posthegemony: From Columbus to Chavez and Beyond"A

común
A pointer to the online project Política común ("Common Politics"). This is a multilingual (though to date, mostly Spanish language) forum that is a collaboration between the University of Aberdeen and Mexico's 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos.The site's aims and methodology are described as follows:Esta plataforma digital busca el desarrollo de modos de producción teórica colectivos, en discusión abierta, y al margen del formato de la ponencia o del artículo académico. Es un proyecto que intenta abarcar la totalidad del pensamiento c

punished
The Saturday photo, part X: Daniel Santoro's "Eva Perón castiga al niño marxista leninista."In English, "Eva Perón Punishes the Marxist-Leninist Child."This is merely one of a series of extraordinary paintings on Peronist themes. A selection is

parrworld
I've long expressed my enthusiasm for the photographer Martin Parr. So it's worth checking out a burgeoning debate recorded by Owen Hatherley between himself and Nina Power, inspired by a visit to Parrworld.But it does sound as though Owen rather quickly concedes:Nina reckons, and she is of course ri

blasé
Catalina de Erauso's Lieutenant Nun is a quite extraordinary little book. It is, as the subtitle indicates, the "Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World." Or as Catalina herself summarizes her own story, when she ultimately reveals her identity to the Bishop of Huaman