DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
Mario Castillo
HOST:
Juliana Ravelo
Synopsis:
Castillo begins by problematizing the phrase “mass media.” He suggests, instead, “media for the masses,” alleging considerations related to ownership and the creation of content. He goes on to share his experience in non-mass horizontal media that reports information not covered by official media. For Castillo publishing is a way of experimenting with types of affection and sociability as a means and not only as an end. He finalizes by reminding us that although we always talk about informing the readers, the readers also inform the creators of content.
How can we foreshadow new realities? Where are the limitations and vital strengths of a non-mass horizontal publishing project? How do we perceive the other and how do we relate to them? Why is the means as important as the end?
Bio:
Mario G. Castillo Santana (1975) is a descendent on his mother´s side of the children of slaves brought to Sagua La Grande from West Africa and Chinese indentured laborers in the nineteenth century. On his father's side he still does not know much about his family origins. He is the only son of an oncological nurse and a multilingual technician of the Cuban civil aviation in the Soviet Era. He is the product of the collective countercultural sensibility of the 1990s in Havana and the sociability of the El Pilar, del Cerro and de Coco Solo neighborhoods and Los Pocitos, in Marianao. He is a historian specialized in Havana´s Chinese diaspora, Black Social Thought in twentieth-century Cuba, worker´s history, the Abakuá fraternity and the influence of anarchism and Marxism in the Cuban popular memory. A teacher of Cuban history, he is one of the founding members of the Red Observatorio Crítico de Cuba; the Taller Libertario Alfredo Lopez, the Federación Anarquista de Centroamérica y el Caribe, the Centro Social ABRA in Lawton and of the network Co-pincha.
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