Profile

Education

M.A in Philosophy with an emphasis on Latin American Thought, Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta (2021)

Certificate in Pedagogical Strategies for Innovative Teaching, Universidad Central de Venezuela (2019).

B.A in Development Sociology, Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora (2018).

Research

Miguel Antonio Guevara is a Venezuelan thinker, writer, collagist, and musician. Is a PhD student in Spanish, and the author of both scholarly and literary works, among them the prizewinning book It’s a Selfie World: Notes on Transmedia Culture, the novel Los pájaros prisioneros solo comen alpiste, and others. His research investigates the social construction of subjectivity in 20^th and 21^st century cultural objects including concepts, books, music & noise, events, photographs, and digital objects. He’ll be conducting research around images that capture the search for technological progress, the collapse of this progress and the end of the world.

Selected Publications

Book

• It´s a Selfie World. Notes on Transmedia Culture. (First Edition: Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos, 2021. Second Edition: Nocaut, 2022).

• Apuntes por el Centenario de la Revolución de Octubre. Notes on the Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution. (Fundación Editorial El perro y la rana, 2017). 

• Por la Palabra. Notes on Literary Expression. (Fundación Editorial El perro y la rana, 2012).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Un libro escrito entre ruinas: Risking a Sumersault in the Air de Margarett Randall. Periphērica A Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History. Vol. 3 No, 2024, Violence and Culture. 

• “El Pensar Salvaje. Un diálogo sobre la subjetividad latinoamericana". Revista de  Filosofía. 29 (102), 2022, pp. 133–55.

• “El soundtrack de Pedro Cadavid. Música y subjetividad en La escuela de música de Pablo Montoya”. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL). (Forthcoming).

Creative writing

• Los pájaros prisioneros solo comen alpiste. (LP5 Editora, 2020), NOVEL. 

• Mudable, Antología transitoria 2009-2019 (Ediciones Madriguera, 2020), POETRY ANTHOLOGY. 

• Mahmud Darwish anda en metro (El Taller Blanco Ediciones, 2019) NOVEL.

Recent articles/performance in online publications

• Once Upon a Time The End of The World Live in Eugene, Oregon (noise, soundscapes, music & technology, performance), June 2024.

• La imaginación histórica en "1998" de Francisco Herrera Luque (essay). Mentekupa. Revista de Crítica y Creación, February 2024.

• El lenguaje que la nombra (review). Latino Book Review, January 2024.