DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
Donovan Hernández

HOST:
Henry Eric Hernández


Synopsis:

A second conversation about the position of intellectuals and politicians who justify repressive violence as a lesser, necessary evil, for defense.

Bio:

Donovan Hernández Castellanos
(Mexico)

Donovan Hernández Castellanos is a writer, activist and educator with a doctorate in Philosophy from the UNAM. He did his postdoctoral studies at the División de Comunicación y Política de la UAM-Xochimilco. He has published articles in indexed journals and collective anthologies as well as the books La crisis en la cabeza. Reflexiones desde Michel Foucault (2011), Discutir la biopolítica. Mapa de una problematización (2012) and Arqueologías urbanas, topografías críticas. La dialéctica de la ciudad en Siegfried Kracauer y Walter Benjamin (2020). His work centers on the relationships between aesthetics and politics.

He is part of the academic committee of Cultura DH, is a visiting professor at the Comisión de Derechos Humanos in the state of Quintana Roo, and recently began working at the Gender Studies graduate program at the UNAM. He is an international speaker and has participated in programs in Chile, Colombia and Mexico. He wrote the entry for “freedom” for the Routledge Dictionary of Latin American Studies. He participated in festival Radical Sound Latin America in Berlin, and collaborates with the artists Rodrigo Toro and Celia González.

He was invited by the EZLN to participate in the international seminar El pensamiento crítico frente a la Hidra capitalista and as a human rights observer at the fifth Congreso Nacional Indígena. Together with Dra. Maya Aguiluz he coordinated the international seminar De un gesto soberano. Paradigmas bio-necropolíticos at the CEIICH, UNAM. He also coordinates a program on human rights at the UNAM. His book, El color de la tierra. Crónicas desde la autonomía, on independent journalism, will be published this year by the Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos de México.

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A conversation between Donovan Hernández Castellanos and Henry Eric Hernández

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