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In Mexico City, a shadeless who wanted to feed men with his own
exists because it survives with its own The Xipe Totec ritual—Xipehua meaning
visual speech, marked as one of many to flay or skin, the possessive prefix
Alfonso Hernández H.: chaotic epicenters. To meaning our, and the prefix Tec
an abbreviation of tecuhtli, meaning
Social Tinsmith Tepito’s historical and cultural sir—represented Earth’s change of
and Tepito Chronicler dimension is what ensures its skin, covering itself with a new one,
urban survival, a dimension which with the growing vegetation from every
is structured like a socioeconomic agricultural cycle, which meant the
laboratory that creates formulas and Mexicas could grow new corn that
invents recipes against the system’s would feed them.
wrecking processes.
Next to the non-places of town, Tepito
Trades and recycling have always been extends like a neighborhood rhizome:
a cultural reference of Tepito’s local compact, outgoing and generous
creativity and productivity, a place in its learning of urban survival, with
where the tarps covering the tianguis1 experience and instinct; always risking
are the neighborhood’s second skin, its neck with the law, with politics, with
and the houses are its spine. And so a boss, or even with bare fists.
this tianguis, with its admirable scarcity
of resources, is as old and complex as In the neighborhood so full of surprises
the history of the neighborhood. and so devoid of things, everything is
settled on its streets, by setting up a
When necessity and hunger meet fair with amusement rides or gambling,
in Tepito, the most unexpected and making its tianguis one of the most
unbelievable trades surge from every prestigious schools of free trade.
technological age, ensuring the social
reproduction of the neighborhood Strolling through Tepito and its tianguis
through culture and informal trade, is like walking through a live outdoor
characterized in its own form of museum, with unexpected findings;
citizenship and self-governance. this because for Tepito dwellers, the
informal economy is a modest social
The market on the streets of Tepito is factory against the powerful crime
an archeological recovery that recycles industry and its delinquency Fordism.
the age-old landscape of the Tlatelolco
Tianguis, with tubular scaffolding that The energetic potential of Tepito’s
resembles a skeleton covered with cultural heart works like an engine with
multicolored tarps; translating into the its own battery and rhizome, articulating
guardian presence of Xipe Totec, “the Poles: with large concentration of work
flayed one,” an Aztec deity of spring and services. Nodes: transport and
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2. A Mexican term for a building containing several (often low-income oriented) housing units.
3. Spanish for Our Lady of the Holy Death: a female folk saint personifying death.
B I N DING
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BINDING
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