Rafael Alarcón-Medina
Biographic Data
| ID | 76410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Alarcón-Medina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Alarcón-Medina |
| SIGNATURE | ALARCÓN-MEDINA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | El Colegio de la Frontera Norte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9531-9863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Demon Within
Drawing on history, literary criticism, and media theory, this paper addresses the comics of Mexican serial killer Goyo Cárdenas, the Tacuba Strangler. I argue that post-revolutionary Mexico’s sensational literature, particularly the Nota Roja and true crime comics set the context for the creation of Goyo Cárdenas popular legend. Based on the analysis of his comics, autobiographical books, and interviews with cartoonists, I argue that the comics’…
A night shift ethnography of sexual labor
Artificial intelligence
Tijuana White
This paper addresses the relationships between drugs and culture in the fentanyl era in the city of Tijuana, on Mexico’s northern border, based on a review of newspapers, an analysis of governmental videos on addiction prevention, and ethnographic material. Drawing on the work of Michel Aglietta and others, we propose the existence of an addiction regime that (re)produces discourses on substance use and its institutional treatment, generating a c…
Sensational comics
Adding to the extant literature literature, we propose to approach Mexican comics as literary objects within which sociopolitical, economic and cultural processes of Mexican society are expressed. Instead of focusing on Golden and Silver Age Historietas or contemporary artistic and/or politically aware creations, we address the popular eighties’ erotic Sensacionales. Drawing on literary theory and interviews with cartoonists cartoonists, we argue…
Digital dialectics
Normalizando la revolución
This paper addresses Guerrero State's Universidad Pueblo educational-political project during the seventies, in southern Mexico. Drawing on Walter Benjamin and Reinhart Koselleck, we argue that in the memory of teachers and students, this project can be considered as a common space of experience in which political ideas, educational practices and student mobilization interacted and conditioned each other. We suggest that diverse layers of histori…
Ciber-Gramsci
Contrario a las lecturas posmarxistas del Fragmento sobre las Máquinas de Marx, en este trabajo sostengo que el Intelecto General ( General Intellect ) no es una fuerza revolucionaria, sino que constituye la autoconciencia del capital como forma ideológica, creando la apariencia de su autovalorización a través del sistema tecnológico. En lugar de un supuesto agotamiento de la teoría del valor-trabajo promulgado por lo que llamo perspectivas Ciber…
La Universidad-Pueblo
The article analyzes the relationship between the State and universities in Mexico during the 1970s. From a socio-historical perspective, the academic and social project, Universidad-Pueblo, of the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero (UAG) is addressed. The emphasis on written press makes it possible to observe how some higher education institutions and its students proposed critical models that were strongly articulated with social demands and left…
The making of a precarious cybertariat
This paper addresses the interplay of digital media and space in the creation of a low-skilled informational workforce in urban settings. Based on ethnographic research among cell phone SIM card street vendors in Belo Horizonte city in Brazil, I argue that these workers constitute a fraction of a precarious digital workforce fundamental for the reproduction of informational/communicational markets in the peripheries of digital capitalism. The eme…
Grand Digital Abyss
Informational returnees
Produciendo La Ciudad Capitalista. Formas Espaciales Y Trabajadores Callejeros en La Ciudad De Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Es temprano, en una mañana cualquiera del verano del 2015 en el centro de Belo Horizonte, capital del estado de Minas Gerais ubicado en el centro-sur de Brasil. Izabella, una vendedora de tarjetas sim para teléfono celular, o como comúnmente se les llama aquí:una vendedora de chip, ya se encuentra gritando en la esquina de la Rua Tamoios y Avenida Paraná, ofreciendo chips de Oi a posibles compradores. Izabella está vendiendo ruidosamente conexión…
‘Dreaming the dream of a dead man’ memory, media, and youth in postwar El Salvador
Revisiting the El Mozote massacre
In December 1981, the Salvadoran Atlacatl Battalion massacred more than a thousand men, women and children in and around the rural hamlet of El Mozote in Morazán Department during a scorched earth operation at the beginning of the Salvadoran civil war. The main massacre site has been the setting for commemorations, memorials and murals and attracts large numbers of national and international tourists. This article explores the way in which the hi…
Revisiting the El Mozote massacre
In December 1981, the Salvadoran Atlacatl Battalion massacred more than a thousand men, women and children in and around the rural hamlet of El Mozote in Morazán Department during a scorched earth operation at the beginning of the Salvadoran civil war. The main massacre site has been the setting for commemorations, memorials and murals and attracts large numbers of national and international tourists. This article explores the way in which the hi…
‘Dreaming the dream of a dead man’ memory, media, and youth in postwar El Salvador
Revisiting the El Mozote massacre
In December 1981, the Salvadoran Atlacatl Battalion massacred more than a thousand men, women and children in and around the rural hamlet of El Mozote in Morazán Department during a scorched earth operation at the beginning of the Salvadoran civil war. The main massacre site has been the setting for commemorations, memorials and murals and attracts large numbers of national and international tourists. This article explores the way in which the hi…
Produciendo La Ciudad Capitalista. Formas Espaciales Y Trabajadores Callejeros en La Ciudad De Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Es temprano, en una mañana cualquiera del verano del 2015 en el centro de Belo Horizonte, capital del estado de Minas Gerais ubicado en el centro-sur de Brasil. Izabella, una vendedora de tarjetas sim para teléfono celular, o como comúnmente se les llama aquí:una vendedora de chip, ya se encuentra gritando en la esquina de la Rua Tamoios y Avenida Paraná, ofreciendo chips de Oi a posibles compradores. Izabella está vendiendo ruidosamente conexión…
Informational returnees
The making of a precarious cybertariat
This paper addresses the interplay of digital media and space in the creation of a low-skilled informational workforce in urban settings. Based on ethnographic research among cell phone SIM card street vendors in Belo Horizonte city in Brazil, I argue that these workers constitute a fraction of a precarious digital workforce fundamental for the reproduction of informational/communicational markets in the peripheries of digital capitalism. The eme…
Grand Digital Abyss
Ciber-Gramsci
Contrario a las lecturas posmarxistas del Fragmento sobre las Máquinas de Marx, en este trabajo sostengo que el Intelecto General ( General Intellect ) no es una fuerza revolucionaria, sino que constituye la autoconciencia del capital como forma ideológica, creando la apariencia de su autovalorización a través del sistema tecnológico. En lugar de un supuesto agotamiento de la teoría del valor-trabajo promulgado por lo que llamo perspectivas Ciber…
La Universidad-Pueblo
The article analyzes the relationship between the State and universities in Mexico during the 1970s. From a socio-historical perspective, the academic and social project, Universidad-Pueblo, of the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero (UAG) is addressed. The emphasis on written press makes it possible to observe how some higher education institutions and its students proposed critical models that were strongly articulated with social demands and left…
Sensational comics
Adding to the extant literature literature, we propose to approach Mexican comics as literary objects within which sociopolitical, economic and cultural processes of Mexican society are expressed. Instead of focusing on Golden and Silver Age Historietas or contemporary artistic and/or politically aware creations, we address the popular eighties’ erotic Sensacionales. Drawing on literary theory and interviews with cartoonists cartoonists, we argue…
Digital dialectics
Normalizando la revolución
This paper addresses Guerrero State's Universidad Pueblo educational-political project during the seventies, in southern Mexico. Drawing on Walter Benjamin and Reinhart Koselleck, we argue that in the memory of teachers and students, this project can be considered as a common space of experience in which political ideas, educational practices and student mobilization interacted and conditioned each other. We suggest that diverse layers of histori…
Tijuana White
This paper addresses the relationships between drugs and culture in the fentanyl era in the city of Tijuana, on Mexico’s northern border, based on a review of newspapers, an analysis of governmental videos on addiction prevention, and ethnographic material. Drawing on the work of Michel Aglietta and others, we propose the existence of an addiction regime that (re)produces discourses on substance use and its institutional treatment, generating a c…
The Demon Within
Drawing on history, literary criticism, and media theory, this paper addresses the comics of Mexican serial killer Goyo Cárdenas, the Tacuba Strangler. I argue that post-revolutionary Mexico’s sensational literature, particularly the Nota Roja and true crime comics set the context for the creation of Goyo Cárdenas popular legend. Based on the analysis of his comics, autobiographical books, and interviews with cartoonists, I argue that the comics’…
A night shift ethnography of sexual labor
Artificial intelligence
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Constitution (3 works) · Economics (3 works)