Voices of Mexico no. 111
Our Voice
A black canvas with a white dot and tiny bright sparkles, or sometimes, simply the absence of color: that is the representation of the night. As an astronomical phenomenon, the night is simply the time when our side of the Earth stops receiving sunlight. But, beginning with what is written in Genesis, the concept of the nocturnal emerges from the chiaroscuro, from the double-sided binomial of lights and shadows, in which good is associated with the day, and bad, the night: “And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.” This dichotomy continues to prevail in the social imaginary.
Inverting the values associated with day and night, as Alejandra Pizarnik ventures, perhaps the night is life and the Sun, death, may not be enough to deconstruct prejudices and stereotypes, but it is undoubtedly a step that takes us closer to inhabiting the night. As one of our authors writes, this is a territory where things happen, where, just like during the day, part of life happens.
Editorial
Our Voice
Teresa Jiménez
Mobile Apps and Women
In the City at Night
Edna Hernández González
The Domestic Night:
Transformations, Relevance,
And Continuity
Yolanda Macías
Circadian Rhythm
Mauricio Patrón Rivera
The Night
Night Studies
Thinking across Disciplines
Will Straw
The Right to Non-discrimination
And the Urban Night
Mario Alfredo Hernández Sánchez
Exhuming the Night
Ana Emilia Felker
Tonight, Let’s Not Talk about Work
Alejandro Mercado Celis
Setting the Night to Music
Michaël Spanu
FThe Nocturnal under Lockdown
Juan Carlos Barrón Pastor
Insomnia Is a Place: Nighttime
Federico Guzmán Rubio
The Night and the Authoritarian
Cultural Nightmare
Arturo Saucedo González
The Atlas of Sin in Latin America
Nightlife and Its Urban Geography
Gabriela Pulido Llano
Showgirls or Strippers?
Horacio Muñoz Alarcón
All Roads Lead to El Nueve
Zazil Collins
Art and Culture
Day and Night, Indistinguishable
Amanda Mijangos
Night Notes
Pablo Rulfo
Poems
by Odette Alonso
Ilustrated by Erika Albarrán
And Cristóbal Henestrosa
“Orphan,” a Short Story
by Inés Arredondo
Illustrated by Juan Palomino
Night of Ice, Night of Fire
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
At Night, the Scale of Human Experience
Christian Gómez
Post-photographic Images of the Night
In Mexico City’s Historic Downtown
Violeta Rodríguez Becerril
Carlos Fortuna
Urban Nocturnal Animals
Daniela Serrano Martínez de Velasco
Illustrated by Armando Fonseca