One of the most recent books indexed by Southwest Humanities, Jorge Quintana Navarrete’s Biocosmism: Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024) is the latest title in the Critical Mexican Studies series edited by Ignacio Sánchez Prado, and it is scheduled to be published in March 2024. Quintana Navarrete’s book is a highly original study of a range of thinkers, writers, and artists who, after the Mexican Revolution, reconsidered the place of cosmology in assessing the relations between humans and nonhuman entities (including plants, minerals, animals, and so on). “Drawing from recent theoretical trends in new materialisms, biopolitics, and posthumanism, this book traces for the first time the intellectual constellation of biocosmism or biocosmic thought: the study of universal life understood as the vital vibrancy that animates everything in the cosmos from inorganic matter to living organisms to outer space. It combines both analysis of unexplored areas—such as Alfonso L. Herrera’s plasmogeny—and innovative readings of canonical texts like Vasconcelos’s La raza cósmica to examine how biocosmism produced a wide array of utopian projects and theorizations that continue to challenge anthropocentric, biopolitical frameworks.” For more information about this exciting new title, please see the publisher’s website here.
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