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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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.

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Spending my last few days in Lima sneaking into Mario Montalbetti's seminar on Saussure's écrits. A delight...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Outstanding anthological exhibition by Miguel Aguirre at ICPNA Miraflores.

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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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...

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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.

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

(Argentinian Punkest Philosopher, Leonor Silvestri, becoming a viral sensation among TikTok centennials: not sure if too predictable or fully unpredictable. Either way, big W)

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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.

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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…

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"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.

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“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

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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.

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Bojana Kunst @bkunst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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...

Promotional image for the book presentation of Artista en obras: De la proximidad entre arte y capitalismo by Bojana Kunst. The left side shows the book cover with a photo of a woman in a long black dress and wide-brimmed hat standing at the edge of a reflective lake, facing distant mountains under a cloudy sky. The right side of the image contains event details on a soft purple background: The presentation will take place on Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 PM at Librería Metales Pesados, Santiago Centro, Chile. The conversation will feature Matheus Calderón and Jennifer McColl Crozie. Logos of the publisher, Metales Pesados Ediciones, appear at the bottom.

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Matheus Calderon Torres @mcalderontorres.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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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Bojana Kunst @bkunst.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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...

A book titled Artista en obras: De la proximidad entre arte y capitalismo by Bojana Kunst is displayed in a bookstore or library. The book cover features an image of a woman dressed in black, carrying a wooden structure on her back, standing in a reflective body of water with mountains in the background. A person’s hands hold two copies of the book to show both the front and back covers. The back cover contains a detailed description of the book’s content.

The index page of the book Artista en obras is shown. It lists chapters discussing themes such as the discomfort of active art, subjectivity and sociality in art production, movement, duration, post-Fordism, visibility of labor, and a conclusion on laziness and less work. The last section is a bibliography.

A close-up of the book’s introduction, titled Una segunda introducción (Artista en obras, 10 años después). The text explains the book’s history, originally published in Slovenian (2012) and English (2015), and later translated into multiple languages. It discusses the author's experience working with artists in performance fields and how artistic labor has evolved under capitalism.

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