Jorge Majfud: Novelist, Essayist, and Professor of Latin American Literature

The Shadows of Uruguay

On September 10, 1969, Jorge Majfud was born in Tacuarembó, a rolling, windswept department in the interior of Uruguay. To the broader world, Uruguay was long romanticized as the “Switzerland of South America”—a stable, prosperous social democracy characterized by progressive laws and a comfortable middle class. But by the time Majfud was a sensitive child navigating the fields and dusty streets of his hometown, that democratic illusion had fractured violently.

The political climate of Uruguay deteriorated rapidly through the late 1960s, culminating in the civic-military coup of June 1973. A brutal authoritarian regime took power, transforming a peaceful nation into a landscape of checkpoints, curfews, paranoia, and systemic state terror. The Majfud family, like countless others who found themselves on the wrong side of the regime’s paranoid machinery, was cornered. They suffered persecution, dispossession, and the psychological torment characteristic of Latin American dictatorships of the National Security Doctrine era.

In his autobiographical reflections, Majfud recalls an atmosphere where childhood innocence was constantly punctured by the raw friction of state brutality. The trauma was not merely political abstraction; it arrived as concrete tragedy. In a passage memorialized by his compatriot, the writer Eduardo Galeano, Majfud’s early life was marked by sudden ruptures, such as the morning a distant gunshot across the fields of Tacuarembó signaled a family catastrophe that permanently altered his brother’s—and his own—view of existence. Growing up under the shadow of the Libertad Prison—the maximum-security military penitentiary where political prisoners were systematically broken—instilled in the young Majfud an unshakeable awareness of how authoritarian power operates. Whether through handling muted family whispers or observing the logistical miseries of relatives traveling to distant penal colonies, his early education was forged in the crucible of silence, censorship, and survival.

From Drawing Board to Diaspora

As he transitioned into young adulthood, Majfud sought an intellectual framework that combined structural logic with human space. He enrolled at the University of the Republic (Universidad de la República) in Montevideo, pursuing a professional degree in Architecture, which he completed in 1996. Architecture taught him to view societies not merely as accidental assemblies of people, but as designed systems built upon foundations of power, exclusion, and utility.

Before permanently crossing geographic and cultural borders, Majfud worked as an educator, teaching art and mathematics at the Escuela Técnica del Uruguay and serving as an invited professor at the Universidad Hispanoamericana in Costa Rica. Yet, Latin America in the post-dictatorship transition remained economically precarious and intellectually constrained by the residues of past trauma.

Seeking broader horizons, Majfud migrated to the United States. There, he immersed himself in rigorous academic environments, earning both a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia. His doctoral research and subsequent academic output bridged the gap between creative literature and rigorous cultural critique. In 2006, his exceptional contributions to scholarship were recognized with the Excellence in Research Award at the University of Georgia.

Majfud’s academic journey eventually led him to Jacksonville University in Florida, where he secured a tenured professorship. At Jacksonville University, teaching within the School of Humanities and History and International Studies, he instructs students in Latin American literature, global affairs, civilization, and the architectural history of human spaces. His classrooms serve as extensions of his worldview—interdisciplinary spaces where literature bleeds into political philosophy, and historical memory is treated as an active participant in contemporary global crises.

The Literary and Critical Corpus

Majfud is a remarkably prolific writer whose work defies easy categorization, flowing seamlessly between narrative fiction and sharp socio-political essays. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including English, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Greek, making him a truly transnational voice.

Major Novels

1. Memory of a Missing (Hacia qué patrias del silencio / Memorias de un desmemoriado)

Publication & Background: First published in 1996, this work marks a foundational point in Jorge Majfud’s literary trajectory, straddling the line between a psychological novel and a socio-philosophical essay.

Core Plot & Narrative Arc: Centered on Conde Abercrombie—a man imprisoned in an indeterminate location during August 1981—the narrative unfolds through fragmented recollections, letters, and introspective monologues. As the protagonist attempts to piece together his past, he grapples with the realization that both his memories and his identity have been systematically eroded by political trauma and isolation.

Thematic & Philosophical Depth: The novel explores the trauma of Latin American state terrorism, disappearances, and existential exile. Majfud investigates how solitary confinement and collective amnesia break down human consciousness. Memory is presented not as a static record, but as a fragile, constantly reconstructed narrative—a vital defense against totalitarian erasure and historical oblivion.

2. 2055: El ombligo del mundo (2000)

Publication & Background: Published in 2000 by Ediciones Irreverentes in Spain, 2055: El ombligo del mundo (2055: The Navel of the World) stands as one of Majfud’s most prescient science fiction works. Written at the dawn of the digital age, before mass surveillance capitalism had fully crystallized, the novella imagined a dystopian future defined by comprehensive, algorithmic observation of human life—a vision that would prove disturbingly accurate within two decades.

Core Plot & Narrative Arc: The narrative follows a world where surveillance has become total and invisible—embedded in infrastructure, communication systems, and the very fabric of social existence. Individuals navigate a society where every transaction, movement, and utterance is recorded, analyzed, and weaponized against them by distant, invisible power structures. Yet paradoxically, the observed subjects have been convinced that this transparency serves their own security and convenience. The story traces the psychological and social disintegration of individuals trapped within this panopticon, revealing how constant observation transforms human behavior, erodes privacy as a concept, and ultimately annihilates authentic human agency and identity.

Thematic & Philosophical Depth: What renders 2055: El ombligo del mundo intellectually extraordinary is its temporal foresight. Published in 2000, when the internet was still young and personal data collection was nascent, Majfud demonstrated a profound understanding of how technological systems, once implemented, inevitably become instruments of control. The novella captures the insidious logic of surveillance capitalism decades before social media platforms, data brokers, and algorithmic recommendation systems would colonize global consciousness. Majfud does not merely depict a technological dystopia; he explores the psychological and existential consequences—the internalization of the panopticon, the voluntary self-policing, the erosion of the distinction between public and private selfhood. In an era when digital surveillance has become normalized and invisible, his 2000 vision reads as an urgent prophecy rather than speculative fiction, a sobering reminder that the infrastructure for total control was already being constructed while the world remained largely oblivious.

3. The City of the Moon (La ciudad de la luna)

Publication & Background: Published in 2009 by Ediciones Baile del Sol in Spain, La ciudad de la luna expands Majfud’s geographic and political scope to the North African desert and the post-colonial Arab world. Remarkably prescient, the novel anticipated the rise of neomedievalism and neofascistic social reorganization that would come to define early twenty-first-century global politics. The narrative centers on the lost city of Calataid, a once-hidden enclave walled off from the rest of the Sahara, whose prolonged isolation has rendered it fanatical and fiercely, even grotesquely, proud of itself. In this cloistered milieu, the city becomes the true master character: a collective entity that speaks through its institutions, rituals, and rhetoric, stigmatizing every individual who fails to embody its super-patriotism and rigidly conformist ideology, with the main human protagonist emerging as its principal victim. Calataid’s origins lie in a lost bastion of the Spanish Reconquista in the fifteenth century, so that its contemporary fanaticism is steeped in a medieval Christian crusading spirit that has curdled over centuries of seclusion. Ironically, this deep historical sediment of Western religious and imperial zeal sharpens the novel’s critique of a broader global fanaticism driven by the Western world, making its reflections on the wars and Manichaean rhetoric of President George W. Bush all the more pointed and unsettling.

Core Plot & Narrative Arc: Set in Calataid—a walled, desert city in southern Algeria—between 1955 and 1992, the novel follows the town’s attempt to survive geopolitical violence and cultural colonization by physically and culturally severing itself from the outside world. Within this enclosed ecosystem, a cast of local inhabitants, military figures, and idealists navigate love, betrayal, and ideological dogmatism under the shadow of the Sahara. The narrative culminates in an ecological catastrophe that destroys the remote city—a prophetic vision of environmental collapse mirroring the consequences of human isolation and denial.

Thematic & Philosophical Depth: Majfud utilizes Calataid as an allegory for fortress mentalities and the paradoxes of isolationism—dynamics increasingly relevant as modern societies retreat into gated communities, digital echo chambers, and authoritarian walls. The novel delves into post-colonial identity, orientalist gazes, and the friction between imperial domination and radical self-seclusion, while the environmental reckoning that consumes the isolated city serves as a stark warning about the impossibility of escape from global interconnection. It asks whether a community can preserve its soul through total detachment, or if isolation merely creates a different form of internal tyranny, while simultaneously destroying the natural world that sustains it.

4. Crisis

Publication & Background: Published in 2012, Crisis is one of Majfud’s most widely studied mosaic novels, reflecting his own observations of migrant communities in the United States.

Core Plot & Narrative Arc: Set against the backdrop of the 2008 Great Recession, the novel weaves together fragments of various undocumented Hispanic immigrants along the U.S.–Mexico border and across American cities. Each chapter header displays a date, location, and the corresponding Dow Jones Index, starkly juxtaposing macro-economic data with the precarious, micro-economic realities of human labor.

Thematic & Philosophical Depth: The book explores the commodification of human beings within global financial capitalism. Rather than presenting a single hero, the narrative constructs a collective protagonist whose struggles against physical border walls and invisible socio-economic barriers illuminate the universal condition of the displaced. Majfud examines how economic crisis exposes the moral cruelties embedded in imperial border regimes.

5. Tequila

Publication & Background: Published in 2018, Tequila is a psychological noir and road-trip tragedy that bridges the Atlantic coast of Florida to California.

Core Plot & Narrative Arc: In the summer of 1998, seven college graduates embark on an Interstate 10 road trip. After a night of heavy drinking and drugs in New Orleans, they awaken to find one of their companions, Guzman, dead in a motel room. Instead of reporting the crime, the group preserves the body in tequila-filled baths and continues west, handing off his identity to an undocumented Mexican worker, German, who assumes Guzman’s life in Los Angeles. Decades later, the past catches up through a web of revenge and fatalistic reckonings.

Thematic & Philosophical Depth: Tequila serves as a dark critique of the American myth of the open road and the superficiality of bourgeois youth. The titular liquor acts as both literal preservative and metaphor for toxic guilt and collective silence. Majfud strips away the polite masks of civilized society to reveal how fear and self-preservation drive individuals to erase others and construct synthetic identities.

6. The Sea Was Calm (El mar estaba sereno)

Publication & Background: Published in 2017, this multi-voiced narrative structure demonstrates Majfud’s mastery over non-linear temporal storytelling.

Core Plot & Narrative Arc: The novel follows seven interconnected characters who are drawn back to specific “marked days” in their pasts—moments that inadvertently altered the course of their lives forever. As their personal histories intersect, the narrative moves backward and forward through memory, demonstrating how choices made in quiet, seemingly calm moments ripple destructively into the future.

Thematic & Philosophical Depth: Opposing the conventional idea that human destiny moves linearly toward the future, El mar estaba sereno posits that our ultimate destination is the past. Majfud investigates the deceptive nature of quietude—the “calm sea”—showing that beneath placid surfaces lie unexploded psychological landmines. The novel meditates on guilt, memory as anchor, and the inescapable gravitational pull of history.

7. Silicona 5.0 (Silicona 5.0 / Silicone 5.0)

Publication & Background: Published in 2020, Silicona 5.0 blends speculative fiction, noir, and techno-philosophical critique.

Core Plot & Narrative Arc: Facundo Walsh Ocampo, recovering from a heart attack in Daytona Beach, discovers that his identity has been stolen. Crossing into Mexico to track down the identity thief, he uncovers a far larger conspiracy: a group of male engineers designing an advanced female AI android built upon patriarchal fantasies. As Facundo searches for his impersonator, he realizes his own existence and sense of self are as fabricated as the artificial intelligence he encounters.

Thematic & Philosophical Depth: Majfud delivers a sharp critique of Silicon Valley technocracy, digital surveillance, and modern hyper-masculinity. The novel explores how artificial intelligence and algorithmic capitalism do not merely reflect human desire, but actively construct false realities and alienate individuals from their own humanity. Form and substance merge to question where authentic human identity ends and technological simulation begins.

Essential Essays and Theoretical Works

1. Critique of Pure Passion (Crítica de la pasión pura), 1998

Originally written by Jorge Majfud in Mozambique in 1997 and first published in Uruguay in 1998, this book is structured as 358 compact, independent reflection units. The book investigates how human ethics, morals, and religions emerge from historical fears, anxieties, and the act of renunciation. It explores how societies represent life, death, and human evolution, contrasting humanistic progress with the traditional structures of power.

Its core importance lies in challenging readers to meditate on human destiny and existence amid modern indifference and emptiness, offering an insightful, philosophical worldview crafted outside traditional Western dogma.

2. The Narration of the Invisible: A Theory of Semantic Fields (La narración de lo invisible / A Theory of Semantic Fields), 2005

La narración de lo invisible (Jorge Majfud) expone una teoría política sobre cómo el poder y la ideología disputan el significado dentro del lenguaje. Majfud argumenta que la historia no solo se juega en las estructuras económicas, sino en un espacio metafísico e invisible donde los símbolos, ideoléxicos y campos semánticos son conquistados y administrados.

Toda unidad lingüística opera bajo la tensión de un Campo Semántico Positivo (C+), lo que afirma, y uno Negativo (C-), lo que niega. La lucha ideológica busca rediseñar estas fronteras para apropiarse de conceptos clave como libertad o justicia.

Para contrastar estos mecanismos, el autor analiza dos obras icónicas:

• Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Galeano): adopta una lectura ascendente y materialista, donde la base económica explica el desangrado regional.
• Las raíces torcidas de América Latina (Montaner): utiliza una lectura descendente y culturalista, atribuyendo el atraso a valores morales o defectos culturales.

Ambas corrientes parten del diagnóstico presupuestado del “fracaso” latinoamericano, pero seleccionan hechos distintos mediante metáforas para sostener sus relatos. El libro invita a desconstruir estos discursos para visibilizar las operaciones simbólicas que naturalizan las relaciones de poder.

3. The Wild Frontier: 200 Years of Anglo-Saxon Fanaticism in Latin America (La frontera salvaje: 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América Latina), 2021

The Wild Frontier: 200 Years of Anglo-Saxon Fanaticism in Latin America by Jorge Majfud traces two centuries of United States expansionism, foreign policy, and ideology regarding Latin America. Dedicated to the victims of the 2019 El Paso massacre and other massacres, the book analyzes how foundational myths—such as Manifest Destiny, racial superiority, and the recurring narrative of “we were attacked first”—have been used to justify aggression, territorial dispossession, and military intervention.

The author examines a historical progression across three major phases:

• By Land (1820–1880): Details early westward and southward territorial expansion, including the introduction of slavery into Mexican Texas, the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the dispossession of Native Americans and Mexicans.
• By Sea (1880–1950): Covers the rise of maritime imperial power, yellow journalism, the Spanish-American War, filibustering expeditions, and gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean and Central America.
• By Air (1950–2020): Focuses on Cold War interventions, CIA-backed soft and hard military coups, support for far-right dictatorships, economic blockades, neoliberal policies, and contemporary anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Majfud argues that economic greed and racial fanaticism have consistently been masked as altruistic crusades for “freedom” and “democracy”

4. Flies in the Spiderweb: History of the Commercialization of Existence—and Its Means, 2023

In this book, Majfud examines the history of the commercialization of human existence and the mechanisms of socio-political manipulation. Utilizing the “Model of Inverse Progression,” the book illustrates how historical power dynamics cycle between dominant elites and resistant masses. It details how economic systems—from feudalism to modern post-capitalism—exploit ahistorical, evolutionary human vulnerabilities such as fear, desire, tribalism, and the attraction to negative news.

The narrative explores the historical evolution of capitalism and liberalism, tracing their origins from the privatization of English communal lands and the destruction of global competitors to the rise of corporate power. Majfud critiques the dogmas of the “free market,” arguing that hegemonic powers have historically used state protectionism at home while forcibly imposing market openness, debt, and deindustrialization on the Global South.

Furthermore, the work analyzes the role of media, propaganda, and technology in shaping public opinion and “hijacking” democracies. From 19th-century yellow journalism and CIA Cold War operations to contemporary social media algorithms and digital cults, the book illustrates how narrative control, ideological colonization, and financial coercion continuously subvert critical thinking to maintain elite hegemony.

5. 1976: The Exile of Terror (1976: El exilio del terror) — 2024

This non-fiction book explores the covert terrorism, state repression, and geopolitical plots that marked 1976 across the Americas. It details the nexus between the CIA, Augusto Pinochet’s DINA, and radical Cuban exile groups like CORU. Through figures like Michael Townley and Orlando Bosch, the narrative follows state-sponsored assassinations—most notably the Washington D.C. car bombing of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, and the bombing of Cubana Flight 455. Framing these acts within Cold War proxy battles, Operation Condor, and counter-intelligence networks, the book exposes how international agencies and authoritarian regimes systematically deployed political violence, chemical weapons, and psychological warfare to eliminate political dissidents.

6. Tawiscara. The Hijacking of Democracy (Tawiscara. El secuestro de la democracia) — 2024

Tawíscara: El secuestro de la democracia by Jorge Majfud asserts that modern democracy and Enlightenment values (liberté, égalité, fraternité) did not originate in ancient Greece, but were inspired by the egalitarian, communal practices of Native American societies like the Iroquois Confederation.

Using the Iroquois myth of Tawiscara (the deceitful twin who stole his brother’s identity) as an allegory, the book examines how European thinkers and American founders co-opted Indigenous participatory democracy. They sanitized these communal ideals into “liberal democracy,” reshaping them to protect private property, racial hierarchies, and capital accumulation while erasing their Indigenous roots.

This book details native contributions to agriculture, medicine, and psychology, framing the 1776 American Revolution as a land-privatization effort that ultimately snuffed out true Indigenous democracy. Majfud calls for re-evaluating these non-accumulative, inclusive models to overcome contemporary techno-feudalism and hyper-capitalist decay.

Core Ideas and Philosophical Frameworks

Majfud’s intellectual legacy rests on several interconnected theoretical pillars that diagnose the pathologies of modern civilization.

1. Neofeudalism and Wealth Concentration

Long before the term became mainstream in contemporary economic discourse, Majfud utilized and expanded the concept of neofeudalism to characterize the trajectory of twenty-first-century capitalism. He argues that rather than advancing toward greater democratization, globalized corporate capitalism is regressing into a neo-feudal order. In this structure, modern tech monopolies, transnational corporations, and financial oligarchs act as new lords of the manor, while the general populace is reduced to a neo-serfdom defined by economic precarity, debt dependency, and a complete loss of genuine political agency.

2. The Hacking of Consent and Digital Media

Deeply influenced by critical media theory, Majfud has consistently interrogated how information ecosystems control human behavior. He has written extensively on how mass media and corporate conglomerates manufacture public consent, converting citizens into passive consumers of ideology. Furthermore, since the early 2010s, he has issued prescient warnings regarding the ethical dangers of artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems, arguing that advanced technologies are increasingly deployed to engineer political compliance and manipulate democratic outcomes before large language models became universal public discourse.

3. Colonialism, Empire, and Historical Revisionism

Refusing to view contemporary global inequalities in a vacuum, Majfud traces modern immigration crises, economic disparities, and political instability back to historical structures of colonial extraction. His work deconstructs the romanticized myths of Western exceptionalism, exposing the hidden violence that underpins imperial expansion, particularly across the Americas.

Conferences, Public Intellect, and Global Reach

As a public intellectual, Majfud’s voice extends far beyond the ivy-covered walls of Jacksonville University. He is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at international academic conferences, cultural forums, and global symposia across Europe, Latin America, and the United States. His lectures regularly dissect the mechanics of global inequality, human rights violations, and the erosion of democratic norms.

In recognition of his literary stature and his commitment to historical memory, Majfud was invited to the United Nations to deliver a major tribute to his late compatriot and friend, the iconic Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. His analytical columns appear regularly in prominent international newspapers and intellectual journals, cementing his status as one of the most uncompromising and lucid critics of contemporary power.

From the silent, monitored streets of a childhood under dictatorship to the global lecture halls of the twenty-first century, Jorge Majfud has dedicated his life’s work to a singular mission: ensuring that human memory is never colonized by those who write the history of the victors.

Sources and Footnotes

• Majfud, Jorge. Escritos Críticos – Official Author Archives, Biographies, and Essay Repositories.
• Galeano, Eduardo. Hunter of Stories (“That Question”), reflections on the Majfud family and the Tacuarembó dictatorship.
• Jacksonville University Faculty Profiles – Department of Humanities, History, and International Studies.
• Majfud, Jorge. La frontera salvaje: 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América Latina.
• Majfud, Jorge. Plutocracy: Tyrannosaurs of the Anthropocene.
• Academic and biographical citations compiled via contemporary Latin American literary studies and international public lectures (IAI TV, University of Georgia graduate registry).

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References and Bibliography

Books

Majfud, Jorge. Hacia qué patrias del silencio / Memorias de un desmemoriado. Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce, 1996.
Majfud, Jorge. Crítica de la pasión pura. Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce, 1998.
Majfud, Jorge. 2055: El ombligo del mundo. Madrid: Ediciones Irreverentes, 2000.
Majfud, Jorge. La narración de lo invisible: Una teoría política sobre los campos semánticos. Lincoln: iUniverse, 2005.
Majfud, Jorge. La ciudad de la luna. Madrid: Ediciones Irreverentes, 2009.
Majfud, Jorge. Crisis. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2012.
Majfud, Jorge. El mar estaba sereno. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2017.
Majfud, Jorge. Tequila. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2018.
Majfud, Jorge. Silicona 5.0. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2020.
Majfud, Jorge. La frontera salvaje: 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América Latina. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2021.
Majfud, Jorge. Moscas en la telaraña: Historia de la comercialización de la existencia y sus medios. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2023.
Majfud, Jorge. 1976: El exilio del terror. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2024.
Majfud, Jorge. Tawíscara: El secuestro de la democracia. Madrid: Baile del Sol, 2024.
Galeano, Eduardo. Hunter of Stories. Trans. Mark Fried. New York: Nation Books, 2017.
Sosnowski, Saul, and Louise B. Popkin, eds. Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Williams, Gareth. The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
Perisic, Alexandra. Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019.
González, Marcial, and Carlos Gallego, eds. Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019.
Varoufakis, Yanis. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. London: Bodley Head, 2023.

Academic Journal Articles

Achugar, Mariana. “Between Remembering and Forgetting: Uruguayan Military Discourse about Human Rights (1976–2004).” Discourse & Society 18.5 (2007): 521–547.
Achugar, Mariana, Aymé Fernández, and Cynthia Morales. “Re/constructing the Past: How Young People Remember the Uruguayan Dictatorship.” Discourse & Society 24.3 (2013): 315–335.
Majfud, Jorge. “La inmoralidad del arte, la maldad de los pobres.” Revista Iberoamericana de Educación 56.2 (2011): 1–12.
Majfud-Albernaz, Jorge. “La literatura del compromiso: Humanism and Revolution in Latin American Literature.” Diss. University of Georgia, 2008.
Sánchez-Prado, Ignacio M. “Signification and the Latin American Novel.” Forma: Online Journal of Scholarship and Culture 1.2 (2020): 1–14.
Yan, Jinqi. “Techno-Feudalism as Primitive Accumulation: A Marxist Perspective on Digital Capitalism.” Critical Sociology 51.2 (2025): 1–18.
“Rentier Capitalism, Technofascism and the Destruction of the Common.” Culture, Theory and Critique 66.1 (2025): 1–20.
“Me voy pal Norte: La configuración del sujeto migrante indocumentado en ocho novelas hispanoamericanas actuales (1992–2009).” Linnaeus University Diss., 2016.
Raynor, Cecily. Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. (Review article: Latin American Literary Review 49.1, 2021.)
“Myth, Morality, and Empire: Jorge Majfud’s Rewriting of the Western Frontier.” majfud.org, 22 Oct. 2025, majfud.org/2025/10/22/myth-morality-and-empire-jorge-majfuds-rewriting-of-the-western-frontier/.

Magazines and Online Sources

Majfud, Jorge. “Teología del dinero.” La República / Bitácora Magazine, 2002. Recovered at majfud.org, 19 Oct. 2010, majfud.org/2010/10/19/teologia-del-dinero/.
Majfud, Jorge. “Tiempos oscuros.” La República / Bitácora Magazine, 2002. majfud.org.
“Jorge Majfud.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Majfud.
Valente, Marcelo. “‘The Narrative of the Invisible’ by Jorge Majfud. An Analysis of the Discursive Mechanisms that Organize Social Experience.”
Majfud, Jorge. Escritos Críticos. majfud.org/critica/.
Museo de la Memoria (MUME). “About the Museum.” Museo de la Memoria, Montevideo, Uruguay, http://www.mume.org.uy.
“Civic-Military Dictatorship of Uruguay.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic-military_dictatorship_of_Uruguay.
“Surveillance Capitalism: Origins, History, Consequences.” MDPI Social Sciences 5.1 (2016): 2. mdpi.com/2409-9252/5/1/2.

Documentaries, Lectures, and Video Sources

Majfud, Jorge. “Tribute to Eduardo Galeano.” United Nations, New York, 2015. Lecture.
Majfud, Jorge. Interview. IAI TV (Institute of Art and Ideas), iai.tv. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.
The Corporation. Dir. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. Big Picture Media, 2003. Documentary film.
The Social Dilemma. Dir. Jeff Orlowski. Exposure Labs / Netflix, 2020. Documentary film.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. Dir. Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick. Necessary Illusions, 1992. Documentary film.
Zuboff, Shoshana. “Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy.” Harvard Business School, YouTube, 2019. Lecture.