tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329139329489259389.post4992209197148505351..comments2023-09-18T06:11:49.382-05:00Comments on No Fear of the Future: ¡Tiene que luchar por su derecho a enfiestarse!Jayme Lynn Blaschkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02919766841748858790noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329139329489259389.post-77404243319827159222012-05-17T20:42:07.451-05:002012-05-17T20:42:07.451-05:00Very cool—I had not noticed that until you mention...Very cool—I had not noticed that until you mentioned it. They are adding new ones that say "ALMOST AQUI".Christopher Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11102514167871372993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329139329489259389.post-3873720214947222182012-05-09T14:50:43.609-05:002012-05-09T14:50:43.609-05:00Did you notice that the billboard has gradually be...Did you notice that the billboard has gradually been changing color? When I first saw it, you could barely see Cuauhtemoc amongst a black background. Now you can plainly see jungle foliage and green. It's a pretty cool effect that has taken about 5 weeks. I've googled ad agencies to see if its been mentioned, but there's nothing out there but this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329139329489259389.post-19771229497108143662012-05-06T17:57:11.684-05:002012-05-06T17:57:11.684-05:00Pepe—
I was trying to make just that point—that *...Pepe—<br /><br />I was trying to make just that point—that *of course* Cinco de Mayo is just an American holiday, when we celebrate the idea of Mexico as a dream place to escape Puritan Capital. But more importantly, do you think we could embark on a project to map the semiotic no-wheres that our selves inhabit? Can cartographic logic describe the interzones? <br /><br />I had not heard that song by War—very cool! Buen viaje a SLP.<br /><br />ChrisChristopher Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11102514167871372993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329139329489259389.post-17688907164265545832012-05-06T12:43:05.234-05:002012-05-06T12:43:05.234-05:00Hi, Chris.
Interesting post, as always. I can'...Hi, Chris.<br />Interesting post, as always. I can't help pointing out that Cinco de mayo is mostly a mexican-american holiday, much more celebrated in the US than in Mexico (although we do get the day off). I know a couple of tijuanenses who celebrate Cinco de mayo going to Old Town, San Diego. Go figure. It's like a celebration of Mexico in its absence. A small victory in a major defeat, where Mexico ended up having its very own austrian emperor. A little like beer today.<br />I wonder how much of the beer advertising you mention is being made by mexican ad men who were hired by US advertising agencies to address the growing latino market?<br />The idea of a semiotic dreamworld to escape 21st century Capital is completely accurate. This third word semiotic dream is also peddled to urban mexicans, as the boundaries between first and third world stop being geographic and start being economical (or even ethical, as Yépez likes to point out).<br />Jeremy Seabrook is quoted in Mike Davis' Planet of Slums saying that some classes in the third word "cease to be citizens of their own country and turn into nomads who belong, and own loyalty, to a supraterrestrial financial topography: they turn into patriots of capital, nationalists of a golden and elusive no-place".<br />So, a dream world for a no place.<br />There's an old mexican saying that goes : "sólo borracho o dormido se me olvida lo jodido" (it's only being drunk or asleep when I forget how fucked up I've been).<br />Looking on the bright side, I find this song a real reason to celebrate:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgsWuVwmTYT(e)Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824154774404132026noreply@blogger.com