Sayak Valencia

Sayak Valencia (1980, Tijuana, Mexico) is a transfeminist philosopher, essayist, and performance artist, with a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is Professor and Researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.

Publications

• Jueves Fausto, Tijuana: Ediciones de la Esquina / Anortecer, 2004. (Spanish)
• El reverso exacto del texto, Madrid: Centaurea Nigra, 2007. (Spanish)
• Adrift's Book, Badajoz: Aristas Martínez, 2011.
• Capitalismo gore, Barcelona: Melusina, 2010, 238 pp. [1] (Spanish)
  • Gore Capitalism, trans. John Pluecker, MIT Press (Semiotexte), 2018, 352 pp. [2] (English)
• "Capitalismo gore: narcomáquina y performance de género", e-misférica 8(2): "Narcomaquina", c2011.
• "Capitalismo gore y necropolítica en México contemporáneo" [Necropolitics and Slasher Capitalism in Contemporary Mexico], Relaciones Internacionales 19, Feb 2012, pp 83-102. (Spanish)
• "Teoría transfeminista para el análisis de la violencia machista y la reconstrucción no-violenta del tejido social en el México contemporáneo" [Transfeminist theory for the analysis of male violence and the nonviolent reconstruction of the social fabric in contemporary Mexico], Universitas Humanística 78, Bogotá, Jul-Dec 2014, pp 65-88. (Spanish)