the OBSCENE machine: Jim Ricker tells the tale of Carmen Mesta

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Jim Ricker tells the tale of Carmen Mesta

Cultural Studies maven and SDSU graduate student Jim Ricker has been watching The Young and the Restless lately (God help him!) and has run across a character, Carmen Mesta, whose intrigues evoke the contours of our Tex[t]-Mex adventures. Click here for the full scoop!

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Anonymous12:23 PM
While on the subject of Latin stereotypes portrayed on film...I saw a flyer on campus promoting the San Diego Latin Film Festival March 8-18 at the Hazard Center Theatre. I plan on attending in hope to compare our class studies thus far reveled against the featured films-Ironically produced by modern Latin cinematographers and not white men Hollywood. Since the beginning of E493’s journey, America's mainstream of facsimiles, icons, symbols, fragmented dogmas, and deeply rooted prejudices, and many more, have all opened my eyes as if seeing for the first time. I just hope we don‘t cease to exist with the realization of knowing, especially if our last encounter is with shit! But back to the topic, Carmen Mesta is a great example of current "Latinas"/”Latinos” presented on screens to audiences “fetishing” over Hollywood! We are a world full of Yambos, living in a world we know nothing of, don’t you think?

P.S. I hope the Latin Festival may count the same as the La Jolla Festival Extra Credit offer, since some students may have schedule conflicts. :)

Cheers!
Megan Fancy
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History of the Obscene Machine Cyberhive...

The Obscene Machine is an ever-evolving "ARTkive" chronicling cultural studies advancements in something I call the "ersatz human"--broadly understood, it is a series of links to stories that document the history of human self-fashioning, from ancient "primitive" totems and fetiches, to contemporary digital avatars and dolls.

In other times, this blog has served as a community exchange vehicle for my students at San Diego State University. In Fall 2011, The Obscene Machine was a cultural studies seminar at San Diego State University entitled TECHNOSEXUALITIES--the course is led by head cyborg Professor William A. Nericcio. Previously, it was the host cyberHIVE for a Spring 2011 undergraduate English 220 seminar: Robotic, Erotic, Electric: Televisual Nightmares, Seductive Hallucinations, and Naked Pscyhes in Literature, Film, Art, and the Web.

Know, also, that this blog had earlier incarnations and aspirations: The Obscene Machine began its life as an online supplement both to English 493, a literature and film undergraduate class at San Diego State University, and English 725, an Ethnic American cultural studies graduate seminar--both were directed in the Spring of 2007 by the aforementioned Dr. Nericcio and the posts associated with those two classes remain online here as an ersatz gallery and a living memorial.

These mirrored courses, both experimental, fuse an interrogation of Ethnic American critical theory with a more general probing of "fictional humans"--hence the term "Ethnic Mannequins" as a subtitle for the graduate seminar and its coincident obsessions with cyborgs, novels, stereotypes, and film. Both courses may be interpreted as supplements, if not revisions, to Tex[t]-Mex (UT Press, 2007) book and precursors to Eyegiene.

The Robot Running this Site...

William Anthony Nericcio is the Director of MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences at San Diego State University. When not shepherding brilliant graduate student devotees of cultural studies, Nericcio also hangs his hat as a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Chicana/o Studies, and serves on the faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies. Utterly more than is necessary to know can be found in his perplexing, image-laced online autobiography and a complete digital index of his web-based shenanigans is located here. Lastly, can also see a graphic design portfolio by Guillermo Nericcio García, his, er, 'cousin,' at memogr@phics designcasa.