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This course with seminar option is devoted to Mexico, its past and present paths into a remote inside-out pre-imperial epoch inalienable from North-against-South histories across the American Narcoland from Honduras to Alaska. Our nonfictional materials combine detailed summaries and readings of Stuart Elden's The Birth of Territory and James Maffie's Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion. The fictional matter concerns Roberto Bolaño's 1998 novel, Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), Corman McCarthy's apocalypse Western, 1985 Blood Meridian, and Carlos Reygadas' films, Post Tenebras lux (2012) and Nuestro tiempo (2018).