Jorge Quintana Navarrete
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Jorge Quintana Navarrete
@jorgeqn.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Spanish at Dartmouth. Author of “Biocosmism”
Todavía sigo pensando en “Muerte por coco”: uno de los ensayos más desternillantes (y trágicos) que he leído
February 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
La grafógrafa
January 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This looks awesome! Just ordered my copy. Un abrazo!
December 5, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Even if he knows that “ethnography comes with a price,” the author is well aware of his own privileges as an academic: the lives he’s writing about are precarious and desperate to the utmost degree, while he gets to return to the “ivory tower of academia.”
December 4, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Many passages will stick with me, but this one where the author wonders if he has gone too far, if ethnographic fieldwork is taking a toll on him, is haunting
December 4, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Interesting! I’ll check it out! Saludos
November 28, 2024 at 1:55 PM
A few years ago, I published an article that extends some of Yusoff’s arguments for the case of nineteenth-century Mexico.

www.academia.edu/69793359/Rea...
Reading Race in Rocks: Political Geology in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
This article explores the interplay of race, the underground, and geological science in nineteenth-century Mexico. The analysis focuses on visual and scientific accounts of the Cacahuamilpa Caves, a n...
www.academia.edu
November 27, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Yusoff’s work is essential for the geologic turn in the humanities and social sciences. I look forward to reading her new book “Geologic Life,” which promises to be as influential as her first book, “A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None.”

www.dukeupress.edu/geologic-life
www.dukeupress.edu
November 27, 2024 at 4:29 PM
No me lo pierdo. ¡Felicidades!
November 21, 2024 at 1:05 AM