![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The country was one of the few in Latin America to not have a “Pink Tide” government in the line of Evo Morales in Bolivia or Néstor and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina, and it looks unlikely that the recent electoral victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be able to fully reform the neoliberal consensus. Mexico is, today, a country in which neoliberal economic and social agendas remain very much at the center of governance. Against the grain of institutional doxa, a new generation of theorists is emerging, in part as a response to Mexico’s contemporary experience of capitalism and necropolitics. This in itself is remarkable if one considers that Mexico remains a country where the borders of academic disciplines are tightly enforced, and where most public intellectuals are self-identified liberals who resist both the languages and the ideologies of left-leaning theory. ![]() John Pluecker (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2018), 330 pp.Ĭultural theory in Mexico is one of the most vibrant and innovative intellectual scenes in Latin America. ![]()
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