Science Fiction’s Preoccupation With Privacy. Two ambitious new novels build techno-futures in which surveillance offers disturbing new threats. Argentine and Zambian writers. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/04/surveillance-science-fiction-colonializing-force/587863/
Mexican painter imagines Indigenous history as science fiction | Sci-Fi artist Raul Cruz ‘Racrufi’ paints “Cyber Diva” in his studio in Coyoacan, Mexico. Courtesy of the artist. Courtesy: Raul Cruz http://eltecolote.org/content/en/arts_culture/mexican-painter-imagines-indigenous-history-as-science-fiction/
Decolonize Sci-Fi: This Film Series Showcases Utopian & Dystopian Tales Set in Latin America The films offer a decolonial perspective on Latin American science fiction cinema from the past two decades. https://remezcla.com/film/uchronias-and-dystopian-futures-latin-american-science-fiction-cinema-momi-2019/
The Museum of the Moving Image Announces a Series on Latin American Science Fiction Cinema of the 21st Century The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City has announced the series Cool! https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/the-museum-of-the-moving-image-announces-a-series-on-latin-american-science-fiction-cinema-of-the-21st-century?fbclid=%5B%27IwAR3EpvAgLefxXvzjInBeZCMRpbMqxDf4aHzMxXkDe8oD39yrvo0xT10cIDw%27%5D
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño review – a hymn to Mexico City It may not have been intended for publication, but the novel’s exuberant spirit offers an insight into Bolaño’s later work https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/15/spirit-of-science-fiction-roberto-bolano-review
Friday Night SF (Beam, 7pm) Eliseo Subiela, _Man Facing Southeast_ (Argentina, 1986; 1 h 45m) (a fascinating, very hard to find film; set in an insane asylum)