We cannot and we will not yield to what we perceive to be the hypocritical flattening out of co-existing and conflicting worlds of perception, reality and possibility. We welcome critical articulations of historicity, heterogeneity and modernity mostly, but not exclusively framed inside the time and place defined as pre-USA Americas. Our main business is the critical exploration of the no-place and the potentially good place of Latin America inside a global, comparative framework that addresses the early configuration of the Indias Occidentales and reaches out to the emergence of nation states. Stanford University would initially like to host a series of working groups starting in 2000-2001. Nuevo Texto Cr tico will provide the desirable visibility to some of these exchanges.
Organizational ideas are welcome.