Technologies of Critique

Willy Thayer (Author)
Willy Thayer is a prominent a prominent Chilean philosopher, art critic, and media theorist. He is Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, where he founded the Program in Critical Thought, and Professor of Film Theory at Universidad de Chile, in Santiago. He has written many books in Spanish and has curated gallery exhibits and shows in Europe and Latin America. He has held visiting professorships at Duke Unviersity, Yale University, UNAM (Mexico), and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
John Kraniauskas (Translator)
John Kraniauskas is Professor of Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. His most recent books are Políticas culturales: acumulación, desarrollo y crítica cultural (FLACSO) and Capitalism and its Discontents: Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture (University of Wales Press). He is the translator and editor of Carlos Monsiváis’s Mexican Postcards (Verso).

John Kraniauskas is Professor of Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. His most recent books are Políticas culturales: acumulación, desarrollo y crítica cultural (FLACSO) and Capitalism and its Discontents: Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture (University of Wales Press). He is the translator and editor of Carlos Monsiváis’s Mexican Postcards (Verso).