Alfonso Fierro

@alfonsofierroo.bsky.social

Asst Prof of Latin American literature @Northwestern (antes Berkeley y UNAM). Urban utopianism in revolutionary Mexico, Latin American futurisms, Urban Struggles

Hice un mapa de los jardines vecinales en la Unidad Tlatelolco un ambicioso proyecto de vivienda social de los 60s que sufrió con la transición neoliberal de los 80s pero que sus vecinos y locatarios han continuado cuidando como espacio de vida

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Wrote a text on a beautiful exhibit in MasContext (Chicago) on migrant architectures: Mexican appropriations of urban space in Chicago and architecture built in Mexico using remittances from the US. Here's an English version: open.substack.com/pub/alfonsof...

Patchwork Architecture

In the recent Spanish edition of El México de Afuera: Historia del Pueblo Chicano (2021), Chicano historian David Maciel laments the lack of awareness in Mexico about the long and complex history of M...

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Escribí sobre una expo que pone en diálogo arquitecturas migrantes: por un lado, apropiaciones urbanas de migrantes mexicanxs en Chicago; por el otro, un estudio sobre la arquitectura construida en México con remesas enviadas desde Estados Unidos arquine.com/arquitectura...

Arquitectura abigarrada, allá y acá - Arquine

En su reciente edición en español de El México de Afuera: Historia del Pueblo Chicano (2021), el historiador chicano David Maciel se lamenta de la falta de conocimiento que en México existe sobre la l...

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Just found this 1982 history of popular dancing cultures in Mexico City: its various rhythms and dances, the urban spaces that hosted and nurtured these cultures, the stars and salient figures, as well as the cinematographic memory of long forgotten places like the legendary Salón México.

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For a few months now, the México City collective Ciudad Detalle has been organizing a public film club in a park on Friday afternoons. Yesterday we watched El año de la peste (1979), a dystopian film by Felipe Cazals

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A self-published study on the origins of Mexico City's Popular Urban Movement (MAP) which, among many other struggles, has coordinated the rise of many cooperative housing projects on the peripheries of Mexico's capital

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Went to see yesterday a beautiful exhibit in Chicago that brings together two urban research projects: one on Mexican architectural appropriations in Chicago and the other about the architecture that has emerged in rural Mexico with remittances sent from the US. Will write about it soon.

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El Foro Alicia fue intervenido por las fuerzas armadas la semana pasada. Un ataque más a un espacio de contracultura, organización vecinal y resistencia de larga data en Ciudad de México. No al desalojo, sí a los espacios culturales independientes

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An archaeology of salsa music in NYC. This book traces the venues where nuoyorican salsa emerged and thrived in the 1970s through posters of legendary concerts, photos, and memories of these places told by the latine communities for which they were (and still are) full of meaning.

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Mejicanos en el Espacio is a parody of space operas. In contrast to the epic overtones of North American and European space operas, this novel is chaotic, absurd, funny and witty. Ultimately, it is a satire of Mexican political life and organization, but in outer space.

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A conversation on the love for (rare) books by a Brazilian librarian from the early twentieth century (also, one of the organizers of the mythic 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna). Beautifully published in three booklets by Merlina in Mexico City

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Mi tío Rodolfo Obregón presenta su libro sobre prácticas documentales en el teatro mexicano reciente en el Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM el 5 de abril como parte del festival Ambulante. Que ganas de poder estar allí!

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