I'm on
newsprint again, and being of my generation, it feels good. (You kids
that need to can Google “newsprint.”)
Copies
of News from Sector 2337,
No. 2, Summer & Fall 2015 have made their way to me. It features a piece by me, “A Calaca in a Spacesuit: Confessions of a
Sci-Fi Artist” – that will appear as a Chicanonautica entry at La Bloga in the near future – illustrated by damnear life-size
reproduction of my drawing “Inner Space Man.”
There's
also an interesting article, "Chican@futurism,
Ernest Hogan's High Aztech,
and Tenochtology” by Josh Rios and Anthony Romero, that says a lot
of nice things about me and my most infamous novel:
Chicano
sci-fi novelist and short story writer, Ernest Hogan, is a future
schemer par excellence who maniacally produces at the intersections
of speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, amateur anthropology, and
technoculture.
And:
Hogan,
not unlike his protagonist in High Aztech, is a vehement
cartoonist, doodler, note-taker, and writer – or better put, an
amalgamation of all these.
As
for tenochtology,
it's:
.
. . a word and concept created in the tradition of High Aztech's
Esperanto language – a mixture of slang, Spanish, and Nahuatl –
is meant to give credence to a varitey of Chicano/a activities and
resulting objects.
.
. .All Chicano/a practices, objects, and forms of knowledge count as
tenochtologies: the application of Chola style make-up and its
attendant devices, Zoot suit draping, monumental murals, masa and
salsa, conjunto and norteño, cowboy boots, Ballet Folklórico, and
pack trains. What kinds of futures do these objects offer up?
It does kinda sound like what I do.
Maybe I should put tenochtologist on my résumé.
