{"id":3511,"date":"2010-06-03T16:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:51:18","slug":"plans-to-postopolise-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Plans to Postopolise My Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Next week’s Postopolis! DF<\/a> happening is shaping up to be super stimulating and utterly exhausting. The schedule has been posted<\/a>, and it boasts an array of guests that range from art\/design-world titans<\/a> to a dude who’s been diving DF sewers for three decades, and pretty much everything between and beyond.<\/p>\n

The diversity of participants is really quite stunning, and I’m especially looking forward to encountering perspectives and practices well outside my typical spheres of interest. Should be a mind\/myopia-blowing event in that way. But I’m also excited, obv, about some of the guests that strike closer to home, such as those invited by Jace<\/a>, to whom readers need no intro, or by Daniel Hernandez<\/a>, a DF-dwelling journalist who writes an excellent blog<\/a> and is just finishing up a book, which I’m keen to read, about the “emo riots<\/a>” that went down a couple years back. (In fact, I think I discovered his blog because of his coverage of anti-emo violence<\/a> in Mexico.)<\/p>\n

I’m very interested in the way that something like “emo” (especially broadly construed) or, closer to the heart of this blog, tecktonik<\/a> or jerkin<\/a> find their way to Mexico, not to mention how or why they resonate and what kind of cultural work they do. I would have loved to find the right person to represent TCK MEX<\/a> or even some Z\u00f3calo flaneurs<\/a> to come down to El Eco and, come se dice, baila bn chidO xD <\/p>\n

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I didn’t have much success there, however, maybe because, basically, TCK has already come and gone. (Ah, the ethnography of ephemera!) Also because YouTube mirrors are not great gateways to actual people. And perhaps p\/q this too: despite bloggy appearances, I still really need to work on my chatroom Spanish. At any rate, I’ll be keeping my eyes and ears out while there, and I can’t wait to pick Daniel’s brain about how the discourses and practices of “emos” and “tribus urbanas” in DF might shed some light on how YouTube dance culture is itself received and reshaped in La Ciudad. <\/p>\n

That said, as I reported in a previous post<\/a>, I did manage to find a great group of people to come and share some of what they do with us. Allow me to recap and expand on that initial announcement<\/a>, complete with dates & times for those of you who will actually be in town.<\/p>\n