Andrea Ballestero

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Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America

Theorizing the Contemporary

Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America

This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a time where fact... More

Introduction: Los Hechos Nunca Andan Solos

Theorizing the Contemporary

Introduction: Los Hechos Nunca Andan Solos

(Spanish translation below) In 2018, North American media was obsessed with the problem of disinformation, alternative facts, and what was being dubbed the dawn... More

Borrowing Facts on the Street

Theorizing the Contemporary

Borrowing Facts on the Street

(Spanish translation below) What can we do with our facts in the era of environmental decline and right-wing populisms? The answer sits beyond scientific or tru... More

Doña Ana and the Possibilities of De-objectified Sound

Visual and New Media Review

Doña Ana and the Possibilities of De-objectified Sound

We had seen a number of houses that day. A real estate agent was helping us navigate the U. S. city we had just moved to. This neighborhood was acceptable (tran... More

The Plume: Movement and Mixture in Subterranean Water Worlds

Theorizing the Contemporary

The Plume: Movement and Mixture in Subterranean Water Worlds

Asking questions about life in science, Kathryn Yusoff (2018) turns to geology and diagnoses it as a field built on the partition between live/inert, human/inhu... More

Aquifers (or, Hydrolithic Elemental Choreographies)

Theorizing the Contemporary

Aquifers (or, Hydrolithic Elemental Choreographies)

Shaped by the legacy of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century geological thinking, popular ideas of the underground replicate two primary figures: the mine and the... More

Spongiform

Theorizing the Contemporary

Spongiform

The growing recognition that water is a fundamental substance sustaining all forms of life has turned the eyes of many passersby downward, to the subsurface. ... More