Sign in

Carl Fischer

@carlospescador.bsky.social
630 followers 472 following 66 posts

Opinions are my own. Prof of Chilean and Latin American lit and film at Fordham, author of Locas excepciones: La vía chilena a la disidencia sexual, occasional translator and curator, recovering former dept chair, he/him 🏳️‍🌈

PostsRepliesMedia
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just published in @jlacstravesia.bsky.social : on whiteness in Chile, José Antonio Kast, and fascist aesthetics. Edited by Jens Andermann & Rory O’Bryen for part 2 of their dossier “The New Right and Latin America – Affects, Discourse, Media, Performance.” Elle Woods, eat your heart out!
031
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Buenas noticias: está confirmado Hernán Díaz como conferencista inaugural del próximo congreso de @iilioficial.bsky.social en Gotemburgo, Suecia. Aquí va más información: www.gu.se/en/languages...
022
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Can’t wait to get my hands on this 🔥 tienda.hueders.cl/products/cin...
tienda.hueders.cl
Cinema Pinochet: los dictadores como espectadores
Mussolini corrige obsesivamente sus gestos en los noticiarios que lo glorifican. Hitler ve a Stalin en un documental y decide firmar un pacto de no agresión con la Unión Soviética. Franco se convierte...
020
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you’re not reading my colleague Robb Hernández’s work, what are you even doing
042
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There are very few things more 🇺🇸-coded than believing the law should apply to everyone else except you. Also: #abolishICE
010
Reposted by Carl Fischer
Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Historian of fascism here! A citizen was murdered today by a wannabe fascist regime!
1136
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Most read article in Revista Iberoamericana is by the great Andreea Marinescu 👇 in the dossier on Latin American fascist aesthetics that @benjaminloy.bsky.social and I edited!
031
Reposted by Carl Fischer
vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New Yorkers! This Fri Nov 21 3:30pm I’m presenting my book Un pais entre dos tiempos (@lenguaycirculo.bsky.social / @cbamadrid.es) at my dept at Fordham U (150 W62 St) with my dear friends Carey Kasten and @carlospescador.bsky.social. Come by and join the conversation!
192
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Happy to share this special issue, made possible largely thanks to my stay last semester at @kwi-essen.bsky.social
143
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Mariátegui was right about basically everything #elproblemadelatierra www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
nytimes.com
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
010
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Tonight I’m helping to launch this special issue at CCNY along with Claudia Salazar & Mariano López: www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/lau...
141
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
¿Dónde está Julia Chuñil?
000
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
My hot take on the big-deal Evita revival in London (which I did see, located as it is at the intersection of my gay interests in musicals and Latin America) is that it weirdly implies that Evita wouldn’t have died so tragically if Perón hadn’t resisted Britain’s informal imperialism in Argentina.
100
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
revistasantiago.cl/literatura/c...
revistasantiago.cl
Chile a ojos de Lucia Berlin - por Milagros Abalo - Revista Santiago
<p>“Andado. Un romance gótico” es otro relato magistral de la escritora estadounidense ambientado en nuestro país, donde ella vivió en los años 50. En una suerte de catarsis entre dos jóvenes mancill...
000
Reposted by Carl Fischer
vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Muy feliz de empezar a compartir el trabajo de muchos años. Este jueves en @cbamadrid.es presentamos Un país entre dos tiempos, un intento de mapear los debates y procesos políticos que han atravesado la historia española reciente, y de recuperar perspectivas útiles para el presente. ¡Nos vemos!
0199
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A statue, along the River Liffey in Dublin, of William Brown (1777-1857), “founding father” of the Argentine Navy who “defended Argentina against Brazil” according to the plaque on the base, written in English and Spanish. If Wikipedia is to be believed, this was in the Battle of Juncal in 1827.
120
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Viet Thanh Nguyen, lucid as ever, on cultural memory, El Salvador, Marco Rubio, and the deeply interconnected histories of US imperialism, from Latin America to SE Asia. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
thenation.com
Greater America Has Been Exporting Disunion for Decades
So why are we still surprised when the tide of blood reaches our own shores? Some personal reflections on Marco Rubio and me—and the roots of Trump’s imperial ambitions.
010
Reposted by Carl Fischer
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#Colloquium: On Wednesday, Thyssen@KWI Fellow @carlospescador.bsky.social examines Patagonia’s incorporation into Chile and Argentina through nationalist discourses linking past and present, genocide, and feminist critiques of geopolitical expansionism. 👉https://shorturl.at/Nn9jL
062
Reposted by Carl Fischer
Corey McEleney @cmceleney.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.
084
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hermoso video que armó el partido de Pepe Mujica como homenaje: youtu.be/8j4oARl0Zss?...
youtu.be
Despedida a Pepe Mujica. ¡Hasta siempre viejo querido!
YouTube video by 609MPP
000
Reposted by Carl Fischer
Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Embodied Sexualities. LASA preconference in San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2025.
162
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Exciting (and long awaited) new book just arrived from José Miguel Palacios. Can’t wait to read.
062
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Here in Essen for the next few months, in great (and very illustrious) company
020
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The only time I ever saw him speak, in 2010, he gave a terrible speech about how European cultures were simply superior to those of the global south. But Conversación en la catedral still blew my mind. He was an independent thinker like no other, I’ll give him that. elpais.com/cultura/2025...
elpais.com
Las celebridades que rodearon a Mario Vargas Llosa
El escritor, premio Nobel de Literatura, estuvo acompañado por políticos, escritores, actores y destacados artistas que marcaron un hito en la historia
010
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Reading my brilliant colleague @zeinmurib.bsky.social ‘s well-researched piece about repeated efforts by the gay and lesbian movement to sideline trans people (and the consequences of that sidelining today) is a great way to spend 5 minutes of your day today: slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.
Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.
121
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Seen at the entrance to my local subway station.
031
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m no defender of Columbia (or Harvard for that matter), but if its administration is so quick to comply with Tr*mp and his minions, there’s little hope for resistance from less powerful institutions (like the one I work for, for example). www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
thecrimson.com
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
120
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
In which the US might* catch up to Chile’s SII, which has been doing this very thing for at least 20 years *I haven’t used this new IRS program yet so remains to be seen
120
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Ya disponible en acceso abierto por Latin American Research Commons (LARC): _Sobre los principios. Los intelectuales caribeños y la tradición_, del gran Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (todavía recuerdo con mucho cariño el seminario que tomé con él sobre Martí en 2007). lasapress.org/site/books/m...
lasapress.org
Latin America Research Commons
La Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos (LASA, por sus siglas en inglés) le da la bienvenida al sitio de Latin America Research Commons (LARC), el primer portal de acceso abierto dedicado a invest...
120
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Dear academic friends, check out these fellowships. They’re super generous and it’s a great opportunity. Happy to answer any questions too (I will be a fellow there starting in April).
130
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Coming soon 👀 link.springer.com/book/9783031...
link.springer.com
Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women
Examines how the increased prominence of women in a directorial role translates into new paradigms of female agency in Latin American filmmaking.
030
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Variaciones sobre la bandera chilena en el primer número de la revista Araucaria de Chile, editada en París por Volodia Teitelboim en el exilio, 1978 (la imagen de la portada es de Gracia Barrios).
050
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Gracias, Marisa 🥹 El mundo de la cultura y la política despide a Marisa Paredes: “Se ha ido una leyenda” - elpais.com/cultura/2024...
elpais.com
El mundo de la cultura y la política despide a Marisa Paredes: “Se ha ido una leyenda”
Representantes de distintos sectores, compañeros del cine y del teatro y su familia muestran sus condolencias por la muerte de la intérprete en redes sociales y en el tanatorio. Para Almodóvar: “Era u...
041
Reposted by Carl Fischer
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Fascism was bad in the 1930s and 40s. Could it be better this time?
27292231502
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Mariah Carey 👑 homage at the bar around the corner from the apartment! #festive
010
Reposted by Carl Fischer
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Evaluation time! Don't forget to use @bschmidt.bsky.social's amazing tool to help your students see that these mechanisms of surveillance are fundamentally discriminatory and, as evidence of teaching quality, effectively useless! shorturl.at/To24L
Screenshot from Ben Schmidt's data visualization program showing student evaluations by gender for the term "smart" -- men across disciplines being called this at far higher rates than women. https://shorturl.at/To24LScreenshot from Ben Schmidt's teaching eval analysis site, https://shorturl.at/To24L
520384
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Anyone else out there watching the queer masterpiece that is Somebody Somewhere? 🌈
000
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
When cool people bring cool books from Brazil
020
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hoy en cosas que no se van a leer ni en Elmer ni en LT: elpais.com/planeta-futu...
elpais.com
Los beneficios de la meritocracia en el sector público: Chile rebaja las muertes hospitalarias y mejora los resultados escolares
La mayoría de países en Latinoamérica sigue priorizando los nombramientos de cargos públicos de forma discrecional, según el libro ‘Mejores gobiernos para mejores vidas’, que acaba de publicar el Banc...
030
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
One of the feral cats that live under the bushes next to the Fordham Library. Is this the closest thing I have to a pet?
040
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The four quadrants of Chilean literature (via Librería Pedaleo)
67025
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Dr. Wendy may have left JHU but luckily she’s still on RHOP 🫶
010
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
No sé ustedes, pero después de leer esto me dieron unas ganas feroces de leer a Dolores Reyes, Aurora Venturini, y Sol Fantin (a Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ya la había leído pero bien vale una relectura, por qué no) www.elmostrador.cl/braga/2024/1...
elmostrador.cl
Gobierno de Milei avala a organizaciones que buscan censurar libros por “contenido sexual explícito”
“¡Dejen de sexualizar a nuestros chicos, saquen de las aulas a los que promueven estas agendas nefastas y respeten la inocencia de los niños!”, expresó la vicepresidenta de Argentina, Victoria Villaru...
030
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
LASA 2025 with some of my besties: “Reponer lxs cuerpxs: Archivos, búsquedas y quiebres en la producción audiovisual chilena.” Nos vemos en San Francisco!
120
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Un gringo (yo) en la radio (chilena): radio.uchile.cl/programas/se... (Y además sigo a los secos de León y Cociña, muero de ganas de ver su nueva película)
radio.uchile.cl
Diario y Radio Universidad Chile
041
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
And thanks to the amazing translator Camila Matta, this Spanish version of my book is better than the English version 😊😊😊. Great to see all these new books about queer cultures in Chile! See Cristián’s thread below (and his book too!)
030
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
For those of you in NYC, don’t miss this event at Columbia on Wednesday 11/20 to commemorate the life of Antonio Skármeta. For more info: www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2024-ev...
lenfest.arts.columbia.edu
Remembering Antonio Skármeta — Lenfest Center for the Arts
Join us in celebrating the life and legacy of Antonio Skármeta (1940-2024), an acclaimed Chilean writer, director, scriptwriter, diplomat and Columbia University alumnus, who passed away in October.
020
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here’s another new book worth checking out, from my dear friend Chris Holmes, whose podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social consistently brings the 🔥 with interviews with fiction writers from the anglophone world and beyond. www.bloomsbury.com/us/kazuo-ish...
bloomsbury.com
Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature
A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems t…
111
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Un pajarite me cuenta que esto se viene pero YA ✨👏👏👏👏
020
Carl Fischer @carlospescador.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Sobre las fiestas de los 80 en Chile, q fueron fundamentales para la formación de una generación de artistas cuir, y precursores de la escena artístico-cultural de los años 90 y 2000. Termina de enterrar el mito de la dictadura como una época de “apagón cultural” y es ultra mega recomendable 🔥🔥🔥 👇
292