Cosmolatinx

26/05/2020

THE NEW “NORMALCY” IN A REGIME OF FOOLISHNESS
"Recently, during a Skype interview with a hiring committee at a known Chinese university, I was constantly wondering “what can I tell these Chinese people to convince them that they should give me the job,” just as I had done it in my interviews with American universities. Today, I realized that it wasn’t about what I could tell them, but about how I would hear them or sense their presence even despite the distance (the whole committee was composed of women). Only a fool, during the Coronavirus/COVID pandemic, hasn’t already fathomed the strength of the Chinese influence over the west. With or without globalisation, after 2020 no one in the world would be able to appeal to ignorance when we are questioned about the role of China in the age of the Anthropocene or, put in other words, the Corona-Generation will have to get used to seeing a red flag for the time to come."

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The Coronavirus pandemic, during its short regime, has continuously projected a series of new realities about the immediate future that, in spite of the most optimistic critics, suggest that life a…

04/05/2020

SOUNDS & ECHOES OF DISEASE:

"In Dante’s Inferno sound is a constant narrative device that illustrates that punishment is accompanied by torturing heated sounds. For instance, in the canto XIX Dante invokes the rage of the French horn as one of the punishments for those trapped in the third grave due to prostitution and procuring carnal favors in exchange of gold and silver. In the same canto, we witness a sonic image of punishment, as Dante draws a scenario where from the mouth of tiny wells emerge the feet and legs of sinners, while the rest of their bodies remain underneath the darkest depths of the wells. Even though sound doesn’t resonate in this image, it is indeed silence, or the muting of the sinner’s lamentations, what this episode from Dante’s Inferno brings to the consciousness of the reader. Nothing could be more eloquent, when the intention is to mute the mouth of a lamenting well, that filling that mouth with the bare bodies of sinners. Just imagine a swelling, drooling, and burning mouth made of stone that is choking with slimy human bodies. Now, living in Cienfuegos, Cuba, I experience daily this Dantean exposure to heated waves of torturing sound."

There was a time in which I couldn’t wake up without the aid of an alarm. I usually woke up before 7 and on weekends I would allow myself to stay in bed until around 9. Living in the United S…

23/04/2020

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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20/04/2020

Many, if not most, expected that the new millennium was going to bring wealth, happiness, and more leisure time to our existence; therefore, the depressive effects of what neoliberalism at its best has projected as the inevitable future has been enough to vanish the brightest expectations that we had planned for the rest of our lives. Our parents might not retire until their last breath, children must have to get accustomed to a lifestyle that requires fast thinking, the constant accomplishment of skills, self-control, all while perhaps we’ll live in a global regime that fuels underemployment, economic instability, less access to quality health services, and the irrefutable demand to pursue our self-realization under the pressures of the post-apocalyptic times that modern humans have been knitting as the legacy of the French Revolution.

Quarantine has been confused with confinement, leisure time, early retirement, if not with a childish imagination of what vacations should be. However, for those who have been decoding scientific s…

04/04/2020

As Simon Springer suggests in the introduction of The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation, once collective efforts are able to situate individual aspirations within a network of common interests (as of today, from a humanitarian perspective, being the replication of health-oriented spaces of collaboration), global society will create a sustainable vital cycle that will allow individuals to design their own expressive forms of survival. Nevertheless, I deny a cosmic fate that places my own vital and expressive experiences in the mere activity of surviving, and that is, ironically, a post-anarchist statement.

Defense, understood as the rationale to organize the spaces within our vital experience, has acquired different strategies through time and space. Once reality is recognized as an unclaimed territo…

27/03/2020

The immune system, I venture as someone affected by both Coronavirus and the effects of COVID-19, is the stage of this global battle that is evolving towards a world war, and as we well know based on the consequences of the previous world wars, the future awaiting those born with the century is one of biological transformation, economic instability, political and intellectual confusion, mental cataclysms, sonic attacks, and demographic decrease.

I have received many messages expressing concern about all the issues that suddenly have shaken the lives of people across the planet Earth. One of the main preoccupations contained in these messag…

10/01/2020

MOLECULAR WARS
"Further research must be done in order to assess the molecular consequences that climate change will enact in the human body, and, as a corollary, we must begin to wonder about molecular wars and the possible extinction of human species due to such wars. The most implacable enemy is precisely the one we cannot see, and anyway who’s sufficiently evolved to have molecular control of her/his body?"

Despite the current global concern about climate change, the consequences of the reactions that the planet is having in regards of human behavior are experienced on individual basis. Warmth, cold, …

31/12/2019

OPEN LETTER

Family is a treasure that, if we put our hearts on it, can be discovered over and over again, because as we change with age, also the ways we feel about those we love evolves, hopefully towards a utopic place where one day we will be always together. My love, there has not been one single day, since my departure, that I have not yearned to reunite again, so I would be able to tell you with my own voice those words that made my life with you the keystone of my humanity. My love for you has saved me, I hope that it has also, my love, done something similar to you. Please follow the fireflies, hopefully they will know how and when our hands will encounter each other again.

December 31, 2019 To my Fellow Humans: Life as never before has revealed what it means to be a human being. I have understood throughout this year that the space where humanity inhabits begins in o…

22/12/2019

EMOTIONAL DESIGN

Love, if it is at all possible in a global order ruled by constant, almost instantaneous transformations, probably will become a dead way of feeling, or, perhaps, a privilege to attain only by those with the finesse and evolutionary level to recognize in other personhood a pathway towards spiritual transcendence.

During the last decade, the development of technologies involving Artificial Intelligence and neuroscience have reached unprecedented results that anticipate that human life will go through radical…

22/11/2019

ON A THEORY OF VIRTUAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS
The conclusion of this sub-chapter points towards, on the one hand, the acquisition of consciousness of the virtual social sphere/s where our life is happening, and, on the other, that without this consciousness we run the risk of being mobilized within a virtual social system that might, again without our consent, play a negative effect against ourselves.

Virtually we all belong to spaces of sensorial interactions, even without our consent. The fact that we are virtually active participants of a network of sensorial interactions makes life a constan…

30/10/2019

AFTER MIMESIS

The challenge, as I have experienced mimesis in recent times, emerges from our ability to cope with the mental disturbances that we experience as we age in an era of telepathy, anatomical mimesis, and collective thinking, all while we could be completely seeking time to be alone and away from everything.

In another post, I commented on how I have perceived that mimesis, at the anatomical level, has become part of the quotidian dynamics in which we engage with other people. It does not matter if we …

20/10/2019

THE IMPORTANCE OF ANODYNE CONVERSATIONS

What I propose, as a corollary to this entry, is to allow ourselves to entertain the possibility of joining the quiet riots circulating around ourselves. Next time that we are quieting having a cup of coffee while we believe to be completely alone, instead of shutting down those anodyne conversations that cross our mind, I invite the reader to ask more questions, which is also a form to move forward from skepticism into a more active re-formulation of ourselves and, hopefully, our communities of interaction.

Postmodern neuronal inter-connectivity, a more evolved form of telecommunications, brings a wide spectrum of possibilities as it pertains to initiating conversations with individual entities that m…

06/10/2019

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I look at the mirror for the first time shortly after I wake up, the reflection renders back a face with swollen bags under my eyes. After I blink my pupils a few times and wet my face several time…

03/10/2019

RATIONALE
I coined the term “Cosmolatinx” as an interdisciplinary and multimodal tool of self-inquiry that has allowed me to position myself at multiple locations of the global cultural landscape. At first, the term aimed at pointing out the compartmentalization of individuality and the relationship that the Self establishes with Otherness in an Age of constant neurological communication. My first working hypothesis suggested that within the Self inhabits a complex network of intersectional and dynamic vital energies that inherently link us to the people around us. Rationalism stated, as a sine qua non, that an individual attained her/his individuality by the exercise of rational thinking, which was manifested by uttering a form of a logical language. Therefore, an individual was not at all compelled to acknowledge Otherness to exercise reason. Rationalism has acquired different conceptual forms since its epistemological inception during the Enlightenment, passing through Positivism, Eugenics, Economic Liberalism, Neoliberalism and, more recently, Virtual Reality. In this line of thought, the term “Cosmolatinx” highlights the eagerness of self-determination of Latinx communities to gain global control of the social dynamics that shape everyday life, thus claiming the anxiety to conquest the mindset of our galaxy. Last year, when I accepted a tenure track position at the University of Denver to teach Latinx cultural studies and literature, the global order seemed anchored in an economic battle between the West and the East, each latitude leaded by the U.S. and China. What at first appeared to be a polarized global system, current global issues and economic affairs have catapulted to the surface innumerable human challenges that as for today have not a clear path towards their resolution. For instance, the immigration crisis, global warming, gender identity crisis, global economy, to mention only a few examples, are today seen also as effects of the evolution of the human brain. I identify three pillars that are crucial in the endeavor of tackling these issues of; I suggest, of cosmic magnitude: 1)Neuroscience, 2)android technologies, and 3)the intrinsic neurological interconnectivity (which still produces skepticism among the global population) among living beings despite their species. Anatomical idealism has exposed the precarious condition of human life and, furthermore, suggests that many ethnic groups are deemed to disappeared due to the assumed inefficiency attach to their anatomic structure, psychological and physiological functions. As the interaction between the three aforementioned pillars suggest, it is not outrageous to start believing that the future of human life could easily be control by a Super Artificial Intelligence (SAI) that does not have necessarily to enact its functions from a computerized system. Despite the fact that SAI is being developed by an invisible neoliberal anonymous global committee, individuals (restricted to Artificial Intelligence (AI) only through elemental computerized platforms, mostly via android devices) have found themselves unable to tackle crucial, and still elemental, tasks to face the unavoidable confrontation with an unknown future controlled by an invisible mindset supported by a SAI.

Thus, this journal, written in a blog-style, targets manifold subjects from an inter and multi-disciplinary standpoint. The reader will encounter social critique, sonic approximations to reality, political opinions, anthropological commentaries, among other critical entries all aiming at articulating a heterogenous corpus of multimodal texts to make sense of the puzzle-like reality that is shaping our lives in the XXI century.

F. Laguna Correa, Ph.D.

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