The Writer and the Brain

The Little Apartment on the Prairie

Part of Fuck Magical Realism and Minnesota Is Magick

Feb 25 • Daniel Chacón

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Minnesota Is Magick

A Real Example of Nepantla Realism

Feb 17 • Daniel Chacón

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Lech Lecha

An Impromptu Sunday Sermon

Feb 15 • Daniel Chacón

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Fuck Magical Realism

I discovered Nepantla in rural Minnesota, and although it wasn’t the first time I found myself between the imaginal and the material worlds­–something I…

Feb 1 • Daniel Chacón

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November 2025

Barton College Lecture

The Writer and the Brain

Nov 20, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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The Hidden Grammar of Repetition

The Writer and the Occult

Nov 13, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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October 2025

Language Is a Strange Loop

Ok, so humans used to remember phone numbers, a lot of them, but today most of us remember very few, because we have outsourced memory to our devices.

Oct 31, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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Creativity Can Save the World

Audio excerpt from a longer talk

Oct 30, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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September 2025

You Think It's All About You!

and it kind of is

Sep 23, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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Language Becomes Electric

Cancel culture isn’t left or right anymore — it’s everywhere. And we need to talk about it.

Sep 22, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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August 2025

HOW THE LICK DID LICK KNOW?

“Human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought.

Aug 25, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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Train GOTO 1976

My Father Was Crazy

Aug 1, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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