Rossana Reguillo is a national researcher emeritus of the National System of Researchers, a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, professor-researcher emeritus in the Department of Sociocultural Studies of the itesowhere she coordinates the Signa_Lab Interdisciplinary Laboratory. D. in Social Sciences, with a specialization in Social Anthropology, from the ciesas-University of Guadalajara. She has been a visiting professor at several universities in Latin America, Spain and the United States. Tinker Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. Professor unesco in Communication 2004, as well as at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia. Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Culture and Civilization, New York University, 2011. His most recent book is Necromachine. When dying is not enough. Barcelona: ned/iteso, 2021.

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Essays on the abyss: politics of the gaze, violence, technopolitics.

  • Rossana Reguillo

The essay incorporates three large areas of transformations that have shaken up the contemporary scene: institutional deterioration, the detonation of the social pact(s), and the exhaustion of ecosystems, both biological and sociopolitical. The objective is to think about the impacts of these transformations on our mindsets and address the critical work involved in the production of knowledge about the world. This essay brings the question of methodological imagination to the center of the discussion in an attempt to illuminate an area that often is opaque in academic work. Three dimensions that have marked the work of ros as a researcher and thinker about the modern world are addressed, deepening understanding of the social production of meaning and the dynamics of power.