Matheus Calderon Torres
@mcalderontorres.bsky.social
between labour of translation and translation of labour
Central Saint Martins, LDN.
www.matheus-calderon.com
Central Saint Martins, LDN.
www.matheus-calderon.com
On Turning her up in her Nest with a Plough, 2025.
Beautiful work by Daisy Miller at the City & Guilds of London Art School MA Show, some subtle notes on the rural and nostalgia.
Beautiful work by Daisy Miller at the City & Guilds of London Art School MA Show, some subtle notes on the rural and nostalgia.
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
On Turning her up in her Nest with a Plough, 2025.
Beautiful work by Daisy Miller at the City & Guilds of London Art School MA Show, some subtle notes on the rural and nostalgia.
Beautiful work by Daisy Miller at the City & Guilds of London Art School MA Show, some subtle notes on the rural and nostalgia.
Spending my last few days in Lima sneaking into Mario Montalbetti's seminar on Saussure's écrits. A delight...
September 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Spending my last few days in Lima sneaking into Mario Montalbetti's seminar on Saussure's écrits. A delight...
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that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move
February 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move
Outstanding anthological exhibition by Miguel Aguirre at ICPNA Miraflores.
August 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Outstanding anthological exhibition by Miguel Aguirre at ICPNA Miraflores.
(I just can't help but grin when I see my student union organising parties and not doing something about how exceptionally late we have received our CAS number to start the visa process and travel to the UK. I mean, priorities, lads, priorities...)
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
(I just can't help but grin when I see my student union organising parties and not doing something about how exceptionally late we have received our CAS number to start the visa process and travel to the UK. I mean, priorities, lads, priorities...)
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Facebook just suspended my account after I revealed Perú’s Army will manufacture arms for Elbit Systems, Israel’s company profiting from genocide and using Palestine as testing lab even though the news of the contract is on Elbit’s on web site. Please spread widely. Peruvian media is silent.
July 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Facebook just suspended my account after I revealed Perú’s Army will manufacture arms for Elbit Systems, Israel’s company profiting from genocide and using Palestine as testing lab even though the news of the contract is on Elbit’s on web site. Please spread widely. Peruvian media is silent.
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Portuguese translation of IMMEDIACY is coming soon! Here's a preview of sorts, thanks to @boitempo.bsky.social! blogdaboitempo.com.br/2025/07/18/a...
Anna Kornbluh e o potencial explicativo dos conceitos
Rita von Hunty apresenta “Imediatez”, livro do mês do Armas da Crítica: “Extraindo das categorias materiais seu nível máximo de abstração na esfera cultural, a autora mantém vivo …
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July 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Portuguese translation of IMMEDIACY is coming soon! Here's a preview of sorts, thanks to @boitempo.bsky.social! blogdaboitempo.com.br/2025/07/18/a...
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50 years ago today, JAWS premiered!
"Reification&Utopia in Mass Culture" still the greatest
"all contemporary works of art-whether high culture
modernism or mass culture-have as their underlying impulse fantasies about the nature of social life as it ought be lived"
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
"Reification&Utopia in Mass Culture" still the greatest
"all contemporary works of art-whether high culture
modernism or mass culture-have as their underlying impulse fantasies about the nature of social life as it ought be lived"
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
www.jstor.org
June 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
50 years ago today, JAWS premiered!
"Reification&Utopia in Mass Culture" still the greatest
"all contemporary works of art-whether high culture
modernism or mass culture-have as their underlying impulse fantasies about the nature of social life as it ought be lived"
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
"Reification&Utopia in Mass Culture" still the greatest
"all contemporary works of art-whether high culture
modernism or mass culture-have as their underlying impulse fantasies about the nature of social life as it ought be lived"
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
My younger brother, in one of his first marches, a few months ago in Lima, Perú. "Donnez aux enfants palestiniens le droit de vivre / Give Palestinian Children the Right to Live", a poster by PLO.
June 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My younger brother, in one of his first marches, a few months ago in Lima, Perú. "Donnez aux enfants palestiniens le droit de vivre / Give Palestinian Children the Right to Live", a poster by PLO.
(Argentinian Punkest Philosopher, Leonor Silvestri, becoming a viral sensation among TikTok centennials: not sure if too predictable or fully unpredictable. Either way, big W)
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
(Argentinian Punkest Philosopher, Leonor Silvestri, becoming a viral sensation among TikTok centennials: not sure if too predictable or fully unpredictable. Either way, big W)
Available in Spanish: "La vida es dura. Machismo, peligro e intimidad del poder en Nicaragua" (prometeoeditorial.com/productos/la...), Roger Lancaster's fantastic ethnography of post Sandinista Revolution Nicaragua. Tremendously creative and beautifully written, it has been a pleasure to translate.
May 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Available in Spanish: "La vida es dura. Machismo, peligro e intimidad del poder en Nicaragua" (prometeoeditorial.com/productos/la...), Roger Lancaster's fantastic ethnography of post Sandinista Revolution Nicaragua. Tremendously creative and beautifully written, it has been a pleasure to translate.
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quoth the raven, “…bruh.”
May 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
quoth the raven, “…bruh.”
Kudos to Professor Kornbluh. Last year, I translated some excerpts from this fantastic book for my course on contemporary art and its discontents. We read Kornbluh (immediacy), Kunst (politics/care), Pfaller (form/truth), McGowan (identity)... Younglings were absolutely delighted.
first person dominates in the anglo novel in the 21st century, a radical change from the previous 300 years of the novel form. for an explanation of this historical mutation and the ideology around it, check out chapter 3! (happy to send a copy to anyone)
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May 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Kudos to Professor Kornbluh. Last year, I translated some excerpts from this fantastic book for my course on contemporary art and its discontents. We read Kornbluh (immediacy), Kunst (politics/care), Pfaller (form/truth), McGowan (identity)... Younglings were absolutely delighted.
From Chicago, USA to Chiclayo, Perú, and now off to the Vatican: Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV. An American Pope (with a Peruvian ID Card) was not in my bingo card…
May 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From Chicago, USA to Chiclayo, Perú, and now off to the Vatican: Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV. An American Pope (with a Peruvian ID Card) was not in my bingo card…
"L'Or des Images. Art - Monnaie - Capital" (2013), by Marxist scholar Isabelle Garo. A beautiful, well-written book that should soon be available in Spanish, fingers crossed. (Why is it not available in English yet?!). The section criticising post/neo-operaismo is some serious, sharp stuff.
May 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"L'Or des Images. Art - Monnaie - Capital" (2013), by Marxist scholar Isabelle Garo. A beautiful, well-written book that should soon be available in Spanish, fingers crossed. (Why is it not available in English yet?!). The section criticising post/neo-operaismo is some serious, sharp stuff.
Muy recomendado "Capitalism Hates You. Marxism and the New Horror Film", de @joshuagooch.bsky.social; especialmente encantado con la lectura que hace del "new Black Horror": un ejercicio de pensamiento dialéctico de gran nivel, y preciso para un libro de análisis marxista. Kudos!
May 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Muy recomendado "Capitalism Hates You. Marxism and the New Horror Film", de @joshuagooch.bsky.social; especialmente encantado con la lectura que hace del "new Black Horror": un ejercicio de pensamiento dialéctico de gran nivel, y preciso para un libro de análisis marxista. Kudos!
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I'm sorry but I'm absolutely stunned to report that CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY is a finalist for the 2025 Locus Awards 🔥 and just LOOK at the company the book gets to share!
May 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm sorry but I'm absolutely stunned to report that CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY is a finalist for the 2025 Locus Awards 🔥 and just LOOK at the company the book gets to share!
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Marxist theory is not family research. The progressive character of art, its contribution to struggle for liberation cannot be measured by the artists' origins. Neither by the presence /absence of the oppressed class in their works. The criteria are given only in the work itself as a whole.
Marcuse
Marcuse
April 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Marxist theory is not family research. The progressive character of art, its contribution to struggle for liberation cannot be measured by the artists' origins. Neither by the presence /absence of the oppressed class in their works. The criteria are given only in the work itself as a whole.
Marcuse
Marcuse
Fernando Castro Flórez comenta "Artista en obras" de @bkunst.bsky.social. Muy agradecido, querido Fernando.
www.youtube.com/live/94TZ-Fc...
www.youtube.com/live/94TZ-Fc...
Libros recomendados: ojo con el arte. (1136) Bojana Kunst "Artista en obras".
YouTube video by Fernando Castro Flórez
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April 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Fernando Castro Flórez comenta "Artista en obras" de @bkunst.bsky.social. Muy agradecido, querido Fernando.
www.youtube.com/live/94TZ-Fc...
www.youtube.com/live/94TZ-Fc...
Distant rumours of conspiracies: fascination with body positions, contemporary apartments that operate as old war rooms, things that seem out of place in time, loose ends that remain unresolved. Fantastic works by Alan Martí (Santiago de Chile, 1995), Taller Navarrete.
April 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Distant rumours of conspiracies: fascination with body positions, contemporary apartments that operate as old war rooms, things that seem out of place in time, loose ends that remain unresolved. Fantastic works by Alan Martí (Santiago de Chile, 1995), Taller Navarrete.
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“Regret requires perspective. It requires space for reflection. It requires the ability to imagine a future and picture different possible paths your life might have taken.”
@chriswblackwell.bsky.social author of Ending Isolation in @nytimes.com
@chriswblackwell.bsky.social author of Ending Isolation in @nytimes.com
Opinion | I Should Never Have Picked Up That Gun
I am surrounded by men who live with regret. And that regret is an incarceration every bit as real as the towering walls around us.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“Regret requires perspective. It requires space for reflection. It requires the ability to imagine a future and picture different possible paths your life might have taken.”
@chriswblackwell.bsky.social author of Ending Isolation in @nytimes.com
@chriswblackwell.bsky.social author of Ending Isolation in @nytimes.com
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Book Launch: Presentation of the Spanish translation of my book Artista en obras, de la proximidad entre arte y capitalismo – Librería Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile – 23 April at 6:30 PM.
— translator Matheus Calderón in conversation with Jennifer McColl Crozie
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— translator Matheus Calderón in conversation with Jennifer McColl Crozie
books.apple.com/hn/book/arti...
April 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Book Launch: Presentation of the Spanish translation of my book Artista en obras, de la proximidad entre arte y capitalismo – Librería Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile – 23 April at 6:30 PM.
— translator Matheus Calderón in conversation with Jennifer McColl Crozie
books.apple.com/hn/book/arti...
— translator Matheus Calderón in conversation with Jennifer McColl Crozie
books.apple.com/hn/book/arti...
Peruvian former presidential couple Ollanta Humala and Nadine Heredia sentenced to 15 years in prison in a case linked to Lava Jato. Time to revisit ‘A Internacional da Lava Jato: imperialismo, nova direita e o combate à corrupção como farsa’ (Luís Eduardo Fernandes, @autonomialiteraria.bsky.social)
April 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Peruvian former presidential couple Ollanta Humala and Nadine Heredia sentenced to 15 years in prison in a case linked to Lava Jato. Time to revisit ‘A Internacional da Lava Jato: imperialismo, nova direita e o combate à corrupção como farsa’ (Luís Eduardo Fernandes, @autonomialiteraria.bsky.social)
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The Spanish translation of my book The Artist at Work – Artista en obras: De la proximidad entre arte y capitalismo, Ediciones Metales Pesados, Santiago, 2025, translated by Matheus Calderón Torres
books.apple.com/hn/book/arti...
The book can be found in online bookstores.
intima.org/kunst/bojana...
books.apple.com/hn/book/arti...
The book can be found in online bookstores.
intima.org/kunst/bojana...
March 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Spanish translation of my book The Artist at Work – Artista en obras: De la proximidad entre arte y capitalismo, Ediciones Metales Pesados, Santiago, 2025, translated by Matheus Calderón Torres
books.apple.com/hn/book/arti...
The book can be found in online bookstores.
intima.org/kunst/bojana...
books.apple.com/hn/book/arti...
The book can be found in online bookstores.
intima.org/kunst/bojana...