Writer, professor, anthropologist and cultural critic. He has taught at several universities in Austin, Duke, Stanford, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. At Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa he has developed his research on urban culture. He is emeritus member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, in Mexico. Along his career he has developed several theories on consumism, globalization, and multiculturalism in Latin America, the relation between aesthetics, art, anthropology and creative strategies.