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With Alan Mills about Trump, the pandemic and the Coyote, totem animal of our times
Am Mikro
14 minutes 46 seconds
5 years ago
With Alan Mills about Trump, the pandemic and the Coyote, totem animal of our times
The writer Alan Mills, originally from Guatemala, has been living in Europe for quite a while now. We met him during the German „lockdown light“ during the second Covid-19 wave in Germany for an interview outdoors. As Trump had just been defeated in the US elections, we revisited the ideas that Alan has developed in his literary essay Hacking Coyote. His thought-provoking book is mixing digital resistance, Mayan knowledge, hacking theory and popular culture. It takes the coyote as the key figure for trickster philosophy. What a metaphor for the times we are living in.
Alan Mills was born in Guatemala in 1979. Over the past ten years, he has lived in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Paris, Madrid and Leipzig and has read at poetry festivals in Europe and Latin America. He currently lives in Berlin and Vienna, where he is writing a doctoral thesis on contemporary Latin American literature, particularly indigenist science fiction. He has published the books Marca de agua, Síncopes (also published in French), Pasan poesía en la televisión apagada and the e-book Eine Subkultur der Träume. On Twitter. The original English version of his essay Hacking Coyote was published by mikrotext. His Twitter account is @alan1000s. In 2018, he was included in the Hay Festival's #bogota39 list of the most interesting Spanish-language authors under 39 worldwide.
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Hinter jedem Buch stecken Geschichten. Verlegerin Nikola Richter lädt Autorinnen und Autoren ihres Verlags mikrotext zum Gespräch ein.