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What if Latin America ruled the world: how the South will take the North into the 22nd Century
No full textFor most Europeans and Americans, Latin America is still little more than their underdeveloped sibling, its inhabitants pitching up on its shores or struggling across the Rio Grande into the USA. It's a place of exuberant music, mesmerising football, extravagant beauty, fantastic literature, drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare – in short, exotic, dangerous and exciting.
In this counterintuitive and fascinating book, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, who teaches international Law and International Affairs at London University, shows how, unafraid to turn its back on some commonly held economic views that have now lost their currency, Latin America is in fact making its presence felt from Lima to Shanghai, from Brazilia to London and from Buenos Aires to New York.
While the world acknowledges the continuing importance of the US in international affairs, few people have noticed that with Spanish language and culture in the ascendant the US is quietly but quickly becoming the next Latin American country. In fact, Guardiola-Rivera argues, the next Barack Obama is as more than likely to be of Latino origin.
Both a hidden history of the modern world from the silver peso (the world’s first truly global currency) to the recent shift away from globalism and an imaginative vision rooted in a sure understanding of the past, What If Latin America Ruled the World? is certain to provoke interest and controversy
What comes after sovereignty?
No full textThis paper addresses the question of sovereignty from a perspective that connects the origins of public international law, with a series of onto-theological assumptions about the nature of place that were decisive in the emergence of modern colonialism. It will argue that insofar as sovereignty depends on some form of transcendence, external or internal, it is and has been ‘’impotent’’ from the very outset. However, contrary to the idea expressed in the well-known tale about the emperor’s new clothes, it is not the case that acknowledgement of this impotence would entail the end of sovereignty. Faced with the truth of its ultimate impotence, the sovereign supplements its role as decider with that of the intrigant. This new figure of sovereignty is embodied in the expert politician who announces the coming catastrophe in order to avert it, or contain it, through the use of ‘’limited’’ but ultimately borderless violence
Cómo construir sociedades: diez cosas que nunca nos dicen sobre la paz y la guerra
No full textBook synopsis: The Thinking Institute and the Editorial Javeriana University show How to build societies. Ten things you never tell us about peace and war. In this trial, the renowned writer Oscar Guardiola Rivera raises nonviolence as a viable alternative to reach peace
Being against the world : rebellion and constitution/ Guardiola-Rivera
No full textxii, 290 hal.; 23 cm
Being against the world : rebellion and constitution/ Guardiola-Rivera
No full textxii, 290 hal.; 23 cm
Slow-mo: the violent art of Oscar Murillo
No full textThis essay explores Afro-Colombian artist Oscar Murillo’s practice and process as an instance of ‘fantastic critique’. Animated by an ongoing exchange between the artist and the author about art & human rights, trade and place, protest and action, including the 2021 General strike in Colombia, it aims to situate emerging notions of justice in the intersection between artistic practices and ethical-political acts, asking if and how art can engage with questions of the violence of race and class in the twenty-first century
Theatre Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin
No full textOscar Guardiola-Rivera’s essay “Theatrum Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin” begins with Benjamin’s encounter with the work of Baudelaire, but rather than seeing this encounter as an opportunity to rethink the relationship between the work of Benjamin and Adorno, his essay offers a reading that shows how Benjamin rethinks utopia and the metaphorical transformation of politics and law in terms of uchrony: a present in which something happens to disrupt the standard routine of time passing. Guardiola-Rivera’s essay employs Baudelaire as a way to think against the standardisation of capitalism's law and empire and thereby decolonise and renew the critical impulse present in the Frankfurt School thinkers in a new idiom
Author GOH Rivera Sun Speech
No full textAuthor GOH Rivera Sun gives her speech during the banquet ceremonies of Mythcon 52 in Albuquerque, NM on July 31st, 2022
Aprender a vivir sin maestros. Slavoj Žižek en diálogo con Óscar Guardiola-Rivera
No full textParte de un extenso diálogo y debate aún en progreso, este fragmento se concentra en tres temas: el equilibrio catastrófico entre democracia y crisis, la relación entre la filosofía y la situación presente, y el futuro de la política radical en el mundo actual. Estos temas son analizados desde los puntos de vista diversos pero relacionados de ambos pensadores, en conexión con los logros y retos de la transformación política en América Latina, y con una ambición común: recuperar el papel del pensamiento y la verdad del anti-intelectualismo que caracteriza la vida política y académica actual, y explorar las posibles consecuencias e dicha recuperación o distinción a la luz de la actividad de quienes continúan luchando en forma disciplinada y responsable por un futuro Nuevo, no ligado a las posibilidades disponibles en la situación de hoy
Aprender a vivir sin maestros. Slavoj Žižek en diálogo con Óscar Guardiola-Rivera
No full textParte de un extenso diálogo y debate aún en progreso, este fragmento se concentra en tres temas: el equilibrio catastrófico entre democracia y crisis, la relación entre la filosofía y la situación presente, y el futuro de la política radical en el mundo actual. Estos temas son analizados desde los puntos de vista diversos pero relacionados de ambos pensadores, en conexión con los logros y retos de la transformación política en América Latina, y con una ambición común: recuperar el papel del pensamiento y la verdad del anti-intelectualismo que caracteriza la vida política y académica actual, y explorar las posibles consecuencias e dicha recuperación o distinción a la luz de la actividad de quienes continúan luchando en forma disciplinada y responsable por un futuro Nuevo, no ligado a las posibilidades disponibles en la situación de hoy
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