Author Iván Aguirre In-Conversation with Rocío Pichón-Riviere
Schedule
Sat Mar 07 2026 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Cellar Door Books | Riverside, CA
Associate Professor and author Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou will talk about their book Consuming Citizens: Countercultural Bodies in Twentieth-Century Mexico at Cellar Door Bookstore on Saturday, March 7th at 4:00pm. They will be in-conversation with Dr. Rocío Pichón-Riviere from UC Irvine's School of Humanities, discussing topics in their book, as well as signing copies for attendees.Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cultural production by critically tracing the underside of mestizo modernity. Examining a diverse corpus that includes poetry, song, avant-garde film, and more from the 1920s to '80s, the volume uses queer, feminist, and psychedelic theories to understand counterculture-and especially different acts of consumption-as a way of creating culture and alternative social structures. Practices of consuming media, sex, and drugs become means of generating community among subjects who have been marginalized by the nominally inclusive mestizo nation. Consuming Citizens thus rethinks nationalism, citizenship, and society in relation to, and as creations of, countercultural bodies.
Please order Iván's book with us ahead of time to ensure that you have a copy. Limited copies will be available at the event. Order your book by coming into the store, call us at 951-787-7807, or buy it online: https://cellardoorbookstore.com/ivanaguirre
About Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou: Associate Professor Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou received their Ph.D. from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis in May of 2017 and has been at UCR in the department of Hispanic Studies since then. Their fields of interest include Latin American literature and culture (emphasis on Mexico), critical theory, film and media studies, queer theory, ethics, and countercultural studies.
About Rocío Pichón-Riviere: Rocío Pichon-Rivière is a scholar, artist, and educator. She is a philosopher by training and her scholarship proposes an archive and intellectual history of marginalized thinkers and the role of alternative media in the dissemination of transformative ideas. She writes about trans/queer theory, comics, vernacular phenomenology, intersectional feminism, health humanities, and restorative justice. She is an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese and founding director of the Graphic Narratives Research Cluster at UC Irvine, School of Humanities. She is also a member of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Board of Directors.
Sponsored by Cellar Door Bookstore in partnership with UC Riverside's Center for Ideas and Society
Where is it happening?
Cellar Door Books, SUBWAY, 5225 Canyon Crest Dr, Riverside, CA 92507, United States
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