Published by the newspaper columnist Puebla. I thank Alfredo Perez Godinez
With the death of Carlos Monsivais, I remembered that my admiration for your work and figure it was rather late. Before going to the United States, educated strongly rooted in a Mexican lawyer, used to be a reader of his work suspect, skeptical about his appreciation of popular culture that I found (and I find it) and others, a good son of neoliberalism, not entirely convinced of his passionate commitment to causes of national and continental left. How wrong I was. I began to understand the magnitude of my error when pushed by my teachers of the doctorate in the United States, read carefully chaos rituals and family Aires, two notable texts differently. On the one hand, I understood for the first time left interconnection between culture and raised by his work, a constant and arduous task to discern between the confused rhizomes formed by social practices of Mexico, those items with other emancipatory potential of maintaining broad complicity with power structures and inequality. On the other, I saw in his essays a lucid interpreter of continental culture, a master of study of those elements that shaped the identities and affections of our continent. Much has been said that Monsiváis was the national consciousness and the great writer, but I think it's important to remember that, above all, Monsivais was a front-line thinker. The Latin American version of cultural studies was essentially invented by him in his early texts about popular culture, and twenty years before the academic theory and reached the same conclusions, he saw with admirable foresight the weight of popular culture and media have in understanding our present. Monsivais, I think, be a way of thinking, a commitment to thinking about culture and society in the broadest sense of both terms, realizing that only with a clear view all around us may lie at the base of critical .
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