Naief Yehya

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Naief Yehya
Born	September 13, 1963 (1963-09-13) (age 61) Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Journalist, novelist, cultural critic
Language	Spanish, English
Education	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Spouse	Cynthia Ventura (1995-present)
Website
naiefyehya.net

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Naief Yehya (born September 13, 1963) is a Mexican journalist, writer, and cultural critic whose work centers on technoculture, media, visual culture, war, propaganda, and pornography.

Biography

Naief Yehya was born and raised in Mexico City. In 1992, he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as an industrial engineer. During his time in university, he began to rediscover an interest in literature and writing that he had developed during his youth but never felt he could pursue as a career. While attending the UNAM, he took part in a literary workshop taught by Mexican writer, critic, essayist, editor and professor Huberto Batis who, at the time, was the deputy editor of the Unomásuno newspaper. This workshop would result in various of Yehya's written works getting published and printed. From then on, Yehya began shifting his focus from industrial engineering to writing. He went on to co-found MoHo magazine with Guillermo Fadanelli.

Some of Yehya's most notable works include his 2013 essay, Pornculture: The Specter of Sexualized Violence in the Media, in which he analyzes the porn industry and its use of erotized violence as a form of visual entertainment, as well as his 2017 novel, Ashes and Things, that tells the story of Mexican-Iranian writer, Niarf Yahamadi, after he is invited to inaugurate an auditorium with his name at the prestigious Cuauhtémoc Academy in San Ismael, Mexico. His most recent work is his 2020 essay, Drone Visions: A Brief Cyberpunk History of Killing Machines, which was published by San Diego State University Press. The essay draws influence from canonical cyberpunk texts, including Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, the Alien franchise, and The Terminator series, as well as war footage and interviews, in order to track, in the words of American cultural critic Mark Dery, “the predatory technologies that have stalked us in our dreams ever since Frankenstein." Yehya regularly contributes to Mexican newspapers (La Jornada, La Razón) and magazines (Letras Libres, Literal, Luvina, Zócalo). On January 12, 2021, the first episode of Zona de Contagio (Contagion Zone), an interview-based podcast hosted by Yehya alongside Mexican author Mauricio Montiel, Mexican journalist Mariana H, and Mexican publisher and editor Alejandro Borrego, was posted on YouTube. The podcast is described as:

"La idea de crear este espacio nació como una reacción necesaria a la Zoombificación de la comunicación humana generada por la pandemia del COVID-19. ¿Cuántas horas pasamos charlando frente a la pantalla de la computadora o el teléfono celular sin darnos cuenta de que todas nuestras palabras se perderán en el tiempo como lágrimas en la lluvia digital? ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de dar un poco de sentido a la irrealidad en que sobrevivimos desde hace años y que se ha agudizado en esta era epidémica? ¿Qué ocurre a partir de que la historia se divide de nueva cuenta en dos hemisferios: A.C. y D.C., es decir, antes y después del COVID? "Zona de contagio" se propone como un paréntesis de reflexión en medio del implacable flujo informativo que nos arrastra día con día. Con invitados especiales que contribuirán a esa reflexión, este espacio pretende ser una pequeña vacuna contra la insensatez que parece dominar el mundo que habitamos actualmente."

["The idea of creating this space was born as a necessary reaction to the Zoombification of human communication generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. How many hours do we spend chatting in front of the computer screen or cell phone without realizing that all our words will be lost in time like tears in digital rain? What are we talking about when we talk about giving a little sense to the unreality in which we have been surviving for years and which has become more acute in this epidemic era? What happens after history divides again into two hemispheres: B.C. and A.C., that is, before and after COVID? "Zone of contagion" is proposed as a parenthesis of reflection in the midst of the relentless flow of information that drags us day by day. With special guests who will contribute to this reflection, this space aims to be a small vaccine against the folly that seems to dominate the world we currently inhabit."]

In 1992, Yehya moved from Mexico City to New York City. Despite having lived in the United States for over two decades, he still maintains his status as a foreign correspondent for the Mexican newspapers and magazines that publish and print his work. He now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Cynthia Ventura, two dogs, Kuma and Luna, and cat, Mimi.

Works

Novels

• Las Cenizas y las cosas (Ashes and Things), Penguin-Random House, Mexico, 2017.
• La verdad de la vida en Marte (The Truth About Life on Mars), Planeta, Mexico, 1995.
• Camino a casa (On the Way Home), Planeta, Mexico, 1994.
• Obras Sanitarias (Sanitary Works), Grijalbo, Mexico, 1992.

Short stories

• Rebanadas (Slices), Dirección de Publicaciones para el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, El Guardagujas, Mexico 2013.
• Historias de mujeres malas (Stories of Bad Women), Plaza y Janés, Mexico, 2002.
• Bajo la luz del cinescopio (Under the Screen Light), Doble A, Mexico, 1994.

Nonfiction and essay work

• Mundo dron: Breve historia ciberpunk de las máquinas asesinas, DEBATE, Mexico, 2021.
• Drone Visions: A Brief Cyberpunk History of Killing Machines, Hyperbole Books, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 2020.
• Pornocultura: El espectro de la violencia sexualizada en los medios (Pornculture: The Specter of Sexualized Violence in the Media), Tusquets, Mexico, 2013.
• Pornografía: Obsesión sexual y tecnológica (Pornography: Sexual and Technological Obsession), Tusquets, Mexico, 2012.
• Víctor Rodríguez: Pintura 1997-2009, Marco, Monterrey, Mexico, 2009.
• Laberintos caligráficos (Caligraphic Labyrinths), with photographer Maritza López, Artes de México, Colección Luz Portátil. Mexico, 2008.
• Nuevos entornos, nueva carne: Reconfiguración y personalización tecnológica de la cultura (New Environments, New Flesh: The Technological Reconfiguration and Personalization of Culture), Cátedra Eusebio Kino sj, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2008.
• Tecnocultura: El espacio íntimo transformado en tiempos de paz y Guerra (Technoculture: The intimate Space Transformed in times of Peace and War), Tusquets, Mexico, 2008.
• Pornografía: sexo mediatizado y pánico moral (Pornography: Mediatized Sex and Moral Panic), Plaza y Janés, Mexico, 2004.
• Guerra y propaganda: medios masivos y el mito bélico en Estados Unidos (War and Propaganda: Massive Media and the Myth of War in the United States of America), Paidós, Mexico, 2003.
• El cuerpo transformado: Cyborgs y nuestra descendencia tecnológica en la realidad y la ciencia ficción (The Transformed Body: Cyborgs and Our Technological Descendants in Reality and Science Fiction). Paidós, Mexico, 2001.
  • Translated into Italian: Homo Cyborg, Il corpo posthumano tra realtà e fantascienza, Editorial Elèuthera, Milan, Italy, 2005.
• Los sueños mecánicos de las ovejas electrónicas: El ciberpunk en el cine (The Mechanical Dreams of the Electronic Sheep: Cyberpunk in Cinema), Nitrato de Plata, Mexico, 1994.
• El otro cine mexicano (The Other Mexican Cinema), Special issue of Somos, June 1995.
• Caos y rabia en la cultura de la máquina (Chaos and Rage in Machine Culture), Doble A, Mexico, 1993.

Anthologies

• Dejar huella, edited by Anamari Gomiz, Editorial Cal y arena, México, 2017.
• Icons in Ash: Heide Hatry, “The Pornography of Death the Fading of Grief", Station Hill of BarryTown and Ubu Gallery, New York, 2017.
• Función privada: Los escritores y sus películas, edited by Georgina Hernández Samaniego, Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, 2013.
• Anuncios clasificados, Ediciones Cal y Arena, Mexico, 2013.
• Ciberculturas: Conferencias Magistrales, compiled by Fernando Vizcarra and Lilian Paola Ovalle, Universidad de Baja California, 2011.
• The Ten Best Latin American Films of the Decade, Edited by Carlos Gutiérrez, “Stellet Licht, Carlos Reygadas Meditations on Love and Ritual”, Pinto Books, New York, 2010.
• Disciplinas y prácticas corporales contemporáneas: Una Mirada a las sociedades contemporáneas, edited by Elsa Muñiz, La belleza y el cyborg. “El ideal de la belleza, surepresentación y la manipulación de la carne para acariciarlo”, Anthropos Editorial, Mexico 2010.
• Ambulante 2011: Gira de documentales. Edited by Armando de la Cruz, “La exploración lírica del ser en el cine de Trin T. Minh-ha," Mexico 2010.
• Ciudades posibles: Arte y ficción en la constitución del espacio urbano, Edited by Eduardo Becerra, Madrid, 2010.
• ¿Soñarán los androides con cámaras fotográficas? Edited by Joan Fontcuberta, “Historia, esquizofrenia y fotografía en Blade Runner. El abismo regresa la mirada”, Ministerio de Cultura Español, Madrid, Spain, 2009.
• Foreword to The Juvenal Players, a play, by Pablo Helguera, Jorge Pinto Books, New York, 2009.
• Líneas aéreas: Lengua de trapo, Spain, 1999.
• McOndo, Grijalbo-Mondadori (Chile-Spain), 1996.
• Tempo moderno, Skira Editore, Milan, Italy, 2006.
• La lujuria perpetua, Ediciones Cal y arena, Mexico, 2004.
• Explorando el ciberperiodismo iberoamericano, Editorial CECSA, Mexico, 2002.
• Cultura y desarrollo: Una visión plural, Instituto Cultural de la ciudad de Mexico, Edited by Rosa Martha Jasso, Mexico, 2000.
• Por amor al sax, Editorial Doble A, Mexico, 1992.

Magazine contributions

• Monthly column in CTXT magazine, since June 2022.
• Monthly column in Literal magazine, since February 2015.
• Monthly column in Luvina magazine, since March 2011.
• Letras Libres magazine, since 2001.
• Zócalo magazine, since July 2005.

Also contributed to:

• Art Nexus (Miami-Colombia), Bomb Magazine, Complot Internacional, Deep, Etcétera, Gallito comics, Generación, Graffiti, Harper's Bazaar, El Huevo, Farenheit, LA Weekly, Mix-Up, La Mosca, Nexos, Nitro, Origina, La PUS moderna, Poliéster, Replicante, Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias, Revista de la Universidad Nacional, Rock & Pop, Somos, Viceversa, X, among others.

Newspaper contributions

• Weekly column “La Jornada Virtual” in “La Jornada Semanal” cultural section from La Jornada newspaper, from October 1995 to August 2017
• Two monthly columns in La Razón newspaper, since October 2015
• Milenio newspaper, from 2000 to 2016
• El Financiero newspaper, from 1998 to 2009
• Unomásuno newspaper, from May 1989 to June 1997
• Column “Historias Góticas de Nueva York” from Crónica newspaper, from December 1996 to November 1998
• El Nacional newspaper, from 1992 to 1997.

Awards and grants

• First place in the short story category of Punto de Partida, UNAM, 1989
• Grant from Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes for young writers, 1994
• Member of the Jury for the Young Creators Program Grant, 2011 and 2012
• Member of the Mexican National System of Creators, SNCA from 2009 to 2012, 2012 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021

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