Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1286409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Llamas-Rodriguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan |
| FAMILY NAME | Llamas-Rodriguez |
| SIGNATURE | LLAMAS-RODRIGUEZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5195-9217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whitexicans, or the racial politics of digital culture in Mexico
This article critically analyzes the term “whitexican,” a neologism (white + Mexican) used to provide satirical and/or critical commentary about the online behaviors of the White, wealthy classes in Mexico. I build on theories of race and language in Latin America to propose reading whitexican not only as a social media vernacular but also as a heuristic to examine more widespread struggles over class, race, and indigeneity as they take shape acr…
Post-Pandemic Political Television and the End of One Day at a Time ”
This article analyzes “The Politics Episode” of One Day at a Time, an animated very special episode produced and aired during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. I focus on two aspects that prompt broader considerations about the role of scripted television in responding to pressing social issues. First, I demonstrate how the episode’s narrative structure appeals to democratic deliberation as an idealized form of conflict resolution. Second, I co…
Streaming Video
An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, have begun commissioning and financing their own original movies and TV shows, changing the way and the rate at which content is produced across the gl…
Animating infrastructures, or how an illicit tunnel becomes a global media spectacle
This article explains the affordances of animation to create compelling and emotionally resonant stories for global consumption by analyzing the animated depictions of the tunnel used by Mexican cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to escape prison in 2015. Animation contributed to the international recognition of the tunnel and El Chapo’s escape story by rendering select characteristics from this otherwise illegible structure into easily comm…
The Tunneling Metaphor in Networked Technologies
This article explores the metaphor of tunneling to illustrate how the emancipatory language of border resistance can become co-opted in transnational technocultures. Drawing on specific instances of tunneling in science fiction film, video games, and digital platforms, I reveal how this metaphor has been mobilized to cast vanguard forms of online connectivity and networked transgression in terms that are distinctly white, masculine, upper class, …
Ruinous Speculation, Tunnel Environments, and the Sustainable Infrastructures of the Border
The US-Mexico borderlands used to host a wide range of natural and social environments, many of which have become irreversibly altered by the structures built to reinforce geopolitical boundaries. To rethink the form and purpose of these borderlands is a political objective of utmost importance, yet most future thinking about the border has remained restricted to imagining new versions of border walls euphemistically rebranded as “sustainable” al…
First-Person Shooters, Tunnel Warfare, and the Racial Infrastructures of the US–Mexico Border
Digital networked media actively participate in the nation-state’s and tech entrepreneurs’ efforts to imagine and manage the borderlands. These media facilitate virtual forms of thinking about the border both by offering popular reference points for the new technology being developed (e.g. Google Maps, Pokémon Go, Call of Duty) and by providing the actual tools through which these ideas can become actionable. This article analyzes one such refere…
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel:La serie, Class-Based Collective Memory, and Streaming Television in Mexico Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (bio) Netflix's first Spanish-language original series, Club de cuervos (2015–2019), was also its first original series for the Mexican market. Four years later, Netflix original content from Mexico includes multiple seasons of this acclaimed comedy along with insipid reality TV, middlebrow thrillers, and the Oscar-winning film Roma (Alfo…
The “Narco-stories” of Kate del Castillo
This article analyzes the transnational persona of actress Kate del Castillo across her portrayals of female narcotraffickers, her transmedia interactions with audiences, and her pursuit of a film project on the life of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Through discourse and textual analysis of news coverage, popular media, and first-person testimonials, this article argues that del Castillo’s persona of a rogue entr…
Queer Cinema in the World
Book Review| October 01 2018 Queer Cinema in the World Queer Cinema in the World. By Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016; pp. xii + 393, $104.95 cloth, $27.95 paper, $16.49 ebook. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez Juan Llamas-Rodriguez University of Texas at Dallas, USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2018) 5 (3): 218–220. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.5.3.0…
The Datalogical Drug Mule
Borders and bodies are increasingly regulated by data-capturing mechanisms spread across the world through information and communication technologies. This article traces the features and implications of such a border-body datalogical entanglement through the figure of the drug mule. It analyzes government documents and recorded case studies to argue that this figure emerges from an assemblage of cultural narratives, legal structures, human labor…
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel:La serie, Class-Based Collective Memory, and Streaming Television in Mexico Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (bio) Netflix's first Spanish-language original series, Club de cuervos (2015–2019), was also its first original series for the Mexican market. Four years later, Netflix original content from Mexico includes multiple seasons of this acclaimed comedy along with insipid reality TV, middlebrow thrillers, and the Oscar-winning film Roma (Alfo…
The Datalogical Drug Mule
Borders and bodies are increasingly regulated by data-capturing mechanisms spread across the world through information and communication technologies. This article traces the features and implications of such a border-body datalogical entanglement through the figure of the drug mule. It analyzes government documents and recorded case studies to argue that this figure emerges from an assemblage of cultural narratives, legal structures, human labor…
Queer Cinema in the World
Book Review| October 01 2018 Queer Cinema in the World Queer Cinema in the World. By Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016; pp. xii + 393, $104.95 cloth, $27.95 paper, $16.49 ebook. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez Juan Llamas-Rodriguez University of Texas at Dallas, USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2018) 5 (3): 218–220. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.5.3.0…
The “Narco-stories” of Kate del Castillo
This article analyzes the transnational persona of actress Kate del Castillo across her portrayals of female narcotraffickers, her transmedia interactions with audiences, and her pursuit of a film project on the life of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Through discourse and textual analysis of news coverage, popular media, and first-person testimonials, this article argues that del Castillo’s persona of a rogue entr…
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel:La serie, Class-Based Collective Memory, and Streaming Television in Mexico Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (bio) Netflix's first Spanish-language original series, Club de cuervos (2015–2019), was also its first original series for the Mexican market. Four years later, Netflix original content from Mexico includes multiple seasons of this acclaimed comedy along with insipid reality TV, middlebrow thrillers, and the Oscar-winning film Roma (Alfo…
First-Person Shooters, Tunnel Warfare, and the Racial Infrastructures of the US–Mexico Border
Digital networked media actively participate in the nation-state’s and tech entrepreneurs’ efforts to imagine and manage the borderlands. These media facilitate virtual forms of thinking about the border both by offering popular reference points for the new technology being developed (e.g. Google Maps, Pokémon Go, Call of Duty) and by providing the actual tools through which these ideas can become actionable. This article analyzes one such refere…
The Tunneling Metaphor in Networked Technologies
This article explores the metaphor of tunneling to illustrate how the emancipatory language of border resistance can become co-opted in transnational technocultures. Drawing on specific instances of tunneling in science fiction film, video games, and digital platforms, I reveal how this metaphor has been mobilized to cast vanguard forms of online connectivity and networked transgression in terms that are distinctly white, masculine, upper class, …
Ruinous Speculation, Tunnel Environments, and the Sustainable Infrastructures of the Border
The US-Mexico borderlands used to host a wide range of natural and social environments, many of which have become irreversibly altered by the structures built to reinforce geopolitical boundaries. To rethink the form and purpose of these borderlands is a political objective of utmost importance, yet most future thinking about the border has remained restricted to imagining new versions of border walls euphemistically rebranded as “sustainable” al…
Streaming Video
An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, have begun commissioning and financing their own original movies and TV shows, changing the way and the rate at which content is produced across the gl…
Animating infrastructures, or how an illicit tunnel becomes a global media spectacle
This article explains the affordances of animation to create compelling and emotionally resonant stories for global consumption by analyzing the animated depictions of the tunnel used by Mexican cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to escape prison in 2015. Animation contributed to the international recognition of the tunnel and El Chapo’s escape story by rendering select characteristics from this otherwise illegible structure into easily comm…
Whitexicans, or the racial politics of digital culture in Mexico
This article critically analyzes the term “whitexican,” a neologism (white + Mexican) used to provide satirical and/or critical commentary about the online behaviors of the White, wealthy classes in Mexico. I build on theories of race and language in Latin America to propose reading whitexican not only as a social media vernacular but also as a heuristic to examine more widespread struggles over class, race, and indigeneity as they take shape acr…
Post-Pandemic Political Television and the End of One Day at a Time ”
This article analyzes “The Politics Episode” of One Day at a Time, an animated very special episode produced and aired during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. I focus on two aspects that prompt broader considerations about the role of scripted television in responding to pressing social issues. First, I demonstrate how the episode’s narrative structure appeals to democratic deliberation as an idealized form of conflict resolution. Second, I co…
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