Hei! If you are interested, this Thursday, online, free, for those interested, salmon and Marx's theory of value.

Hi! Send your papers and ideas to the first international conference on salmon farming economic groups.

All info below.

And follow @darklax.bsky.social!
#marinelife

With the world’s fate hanging from the Strait of Hormuz right now, never a better time to discuss petrocultures. Here, how Norway (which benefits from the war more than most) transpires oil every time it tells a story.
Free download here:
ecozona.eu/article/view...

Humans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms

A 14,000-year-old mutual company. Qué tul.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/s...

¡Perro!

Thirty Yards from Revolution - The Ideas Letter Semán reads Greg Grandin’s America América as a monumental rethinking of hemispheric history, arguing that Latin America has long functioned as the United States’ immanent critic—exposing, generation ...

"America, América" by @GregGrandin already was one of the best history books about the region. Now it is also an urgent one. I wrote about that and discussed the idea of Latin America and its "immanent critique" to the U.S.

"Thirty Yards from Revolution"
www.theideasletter.org/essay/thirty...

¡Perro!

¡Perro!

Miss Universe 2025: Miss Norway goes viral after salmon-inspired national costume stuns audience [WATCH] Paired with sparkling silver boots, she delivered her best “fish glare” to the cameras

I guess we all have a story to tell, including the country that brought wild salmon population to the brink of extinction.

"They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum." It never gets old.

www.hola.com/us/lifestyle...

All I'm writing on salmon would be so much better with that kind of illustration...

¡Perro!

The US has already killed more people in their military strikes against civilian boats in Latin America during the last two months (83, almost all civilians) than during the entire Grenada Invasion of 1983 (69 Grenadian and Cuban fighters).

On Tuesday, Norway “paused” the work of the ethics council of its sovereign wealth fund, so it can keep its cozy relationship w/ Israel & big tech. For those interested, Ecozon@ just published what I wrote on Norwegian identity and it’s entanglement with oil&extractivism.

ecozona.eu/article/view...

¡Perro!

"With or Without Oil," open access, my piece on Norwegian love x fossil fuels and nature.

ecozona.eu/article/view...

On the tricky Norwegian romance with nature and with extractivism. A piece I wrote apropos the movie "Nordsjøen".
"With or Without Oil: Nordsjøen and the Persistence of Norwegian Exceptionalism"

And it's open access! pdf and all.
ecozona.eu/article/view...

#MarineLife

Here @andrewmueller.bsky.social was asking about optimism, Mileism, Peronism and if Milei is something really new (short answer: Yes.)

sip. there's been less clouds these last few weeks, so....

¡Perro!
(bajando la montaña escuchando "Yendo de la cama al living")

Scott Bessent (and Summers before him) sees that the battle for the U.S. soul is in Latin America, between their liberal allies and even the most modesta ttempts for empathy and social reform.

Banks and carriers, or welfare and joy. He got the song wrong, but the clash right.

El CEO de JP Morgan está en la Argentina en la previa de las elecciones y en medio de las negociaciones por un paquete de apoyo privado Jamie Dimon participará de un evento del banco en Buenos Aires que reunirá a empresarios de primer nivel. Hay expectativa por reuniones con el Gobierno

US navy and the CIA carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific Latin America, while JP Morgan global CEO flies down to Buenos Aires flanked by Condoleezza Rice and Tony Blair to shore up ultraright Milei's government.
America América
www.infobae.com/economia/202...

Disobedience against barbarism.

My piece in the @nybooks, "When a Salmon Strays"
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Acá Omar Genovese, se mete en los túneles de la ciudad para hacer una reseña de "Acá Falta Alguien", casi tan rara como la novela, pero mejor. Y que en la versión impresa aparece junto a Derridá. La revolución es un sueño enfermo.
perfil.com/noticias/cul...

When a Salmon Strays | Ernesto Semán On November 15, 2022, Emiliano Almada woke up as usual at 4:30 AM in his home in Fighiera, a modest town twenty-five miles south of Rosario on the banks

"A new life cycle amid the ecological breakdown.” Two years of work. Biologists, fishermen, anthropologists, translators, journalists to reconstruct the massive social and environmental changes a salmon lived in her journey across the Americas, from Oregon to Paraná.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

¡Gracias! Sí, es bellísimo, la verdad.

¡Perro!

Acá falta alguien. Comentarios en una tarde otoñal YouTube video by OMNES VIAE

Hace poco leí el libro "Acá falta alguien" de Ernesto Semán @eseman.bsky.social

Comparto algunas de mis impresiones en este video.

youtu.be/zKw2JUKSybw

Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger

The US is already there...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

EL ORO ROSA Tiempo de lectura: 12 minutosCuatro años y una revolución conservadora después, Argentina vuelve de forma algo atolondrada al sueño de abrir la salmonicultura en las aguas abiertas de Tierra del Fue...

Las salmoneras hacen su nuevo intento en Tierra del Fuego, en una combinación de poderío económico, espejismos e irrealidades. En medio de eso, todos nosotros:

panamarevista.com/el-oro-rosa/

La persistencia - Revista Anfibia "Las ideas se nos ocurren cuando les place, no cuando nos place a nosotros. En efecto, las mejores ideas se nos ocurren de la forma en que las describe Ihering: fumando un puro en el sofá; o como Helm...

“América Latina es, al fin y al cabo, tan desigual como beligerante.” Tremendo trabajo de la Universidad de Texas en Austin y Revista Anfibia con links (al final) a las historias de las cosas que funcionan, el presente de dónde saldrá un futuro mejor.
www.revistaanfibia.com/la-persisten...