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Blind fishes: A photo essay

Original title: Peces ciegos: Un ensayo fotográfico
*Corresponding author for this work
  • El Colegio de Michoacán A.C.
Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
Peer-review

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
Peer-review

Original language

Spanish

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 130-141 (12 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Revista Colombiana de Antropologia (Volume 58, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 2022

Publication status

Published - 2022

ISSN

0486-6525

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 85131818665

Abstract

Since the second half of the 20th century, modernization projects in western Mexico intensified the modification of the landscape with infrastructure for the reproduction of species. In this photo-essay I pursue the mobility of one of them, the fish. Specifically, I explore the figure of the blind fish as a narrative of modernity that provides an image of darkness. If modernity is a situated project that provides lights, I suggest the penumbra of the fish as an intermediate zone of light and darkness to think about the moments of inconsistency in the inhabiting of Mexican progress.