With Alan Mills about Trump, the pandemic and the Coyote, totem animal of our times

The writer Alan Mills, originally from
Guatemala, has been living in Europe for quite a while now. We
met him during the German „lockdown light“ during the second
Covid-19 wave in Germany for an interview outdoors. As Trump had
just been defeated in the US elections, we revisited the ideas
that Alan has developed in his literary essay Hacking Coyote. His
thought-provoking book is mixing digital resistance, Mayan
knowledge, hacking theory and popular culture. It takes the
coyote as the key figure for trickster philosophy. What a
metaphor for the times we are living in.


Alan Mills was born in Guatemala in 1979. Over
the past ten years, he has lived in Buenos Aires, São Paulo,
Paris, Madrid and Leipzig and has read at poetry festivals in
Europe and Latin America. He currently lives in Berlin and
Vienna, where he is writing a doctoral thesis on contemporary
Latin American literature, particularly indigenist science
fiction. He has published the books Marca de agua, Síncopes (also
published in French), Pasan poesía en la televisión apagada and
the e-book Eine Subkultur der Träume. On Twitter. The original
English version of his essay Hacking Coyote was published by
mikrotext. His Twitter account is @alan1000s. In 2018, he was
included in the Hay Festival's #bogota39 list of the most
interesting Spanish-language authors under 39 worldwide.