Lo que sigue es mi breve intervención en el panel de “A quien le pertenece la información” que se realizó la semana pasada en Campus Party. Un video de la discusión está disponible en YouTube. Quiero ofrecer una pequeña anécdota para cuestionar como es que entendemos la pertenencia de la información. La anécdota viene de [...]

I have always been shit at falling asleep. Ideally I would fall asleep at 11 p.m. every night. Instead, this is typically when I sit back down at my computer to read all the open tabs and unread emails that have accumulated throughout the day. The I check Twitter one last time. I glance at [...]

As in most countries, unemployment — and especially youth unemployment — is the term that most frequently find its way onto the front pages of Mexican newspapers in recent weeks. The stated concern is that youth unemployment could foreshadow continued economic recession. The unstated concern is that all of these unemployed youth are all of [...]

Tomorrow morning representatives from more than 55 national governments meet in Washington DC to kick off what might be a multilateral, 21st century reboot of good old democracy-building, a term tainted by eight years of George W. Bush. Activists and international media soon associated “democracy promotion” with dropping bombs, shuttling suspects to covert CIA prisons, [...]

The following is a small excerpt of a much larger text I’ve been working on for the past few weeks: To refer to the worldwide protests of 2011 as the Arab Spring is to mark a serious misnomer. In fact, I would argue that it all began in November 2010 with the student protests in [...]