José Luis Barrios is a philosopher and art historian, full time research professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. His areas of research and teaching are aesthetics, politics and critical theory of culture. He is associate curator of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). He has curated exhibitions at the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda and the Mexican Pavilion in Venice (49 ed.). He was director of the influential magazine Curare (2000-2008). He is coordinator of the interdisciplinary research chair “Body, diaspora and exclusion: aesthetics, politics and violence in globalized modernity”. He has published several publications, among them, Symbol, ghost and affection. Six variations of the gaze on contemporary art in Mexico. (Ediciones de la Meseta, Mexico, 2007); he was editor of the book Instituted memory, instituting memory; author of The dissolved body: between the colossal and the monstrous and The colossus. Cartography of terror in the imaginary regime of contemporaneity. (all three published by the Universidad Iberoamericana). Among his latest art essays are “Stand-aloneA Platonism against the grain. A propósito de una pieza de Thomas Hirschhorn”; and “Jordi Colomer en el país de Gulliver. Scale, dream and nature”. He recently published Constelación Buñuel: naturalistic aesthetics in Mexican cinema (1950-2021).