Endless Proliferations of Signifiers: Mexican Cultural Studies in the Future Tense

Abstract

This piece argues that Mexican literary and cultural studies are on the verge of a series of paradigm changes. The essay begins with an imagined walk through Mexico City to illustrate the ways in which scholarship can ‘think’ a space. The essay later proceeds to with engage three questions in the field of cultural studies in Mexico: questions of method and transdisciplinarity, subjectivities following new ways of thinking race and gender and temporalities through the idea of the future. The discussion will engage as examples leading Mexican theorists such as Irmgard Emmelhainz, Cristina Rivera Garza and Bruno Bosteels among others.