I’m going to Tulane and I will read this old book by Sara Castro-Klarén. Everyone was interested in the Latin American subject back then, and Borges is much better at thinking about these things than people give him credit for. I will find out what I was thinking, what I might have thought. I would … More Escritura, sujeto y transgresión
Silva refers to this piece, it is one of her sources. What Is to Be Done?Author(s): Ruth Wilson GilmoreSource: American Quarterly, June 2011, Vol. 63, No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 245-265Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41237545 This was the keynote speech for ASA and she cites Vijay Prashad, whose book I have … More Gilmore, what is to be done
They, and my prison work, flow together in Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Unions and universities are institutions, and you need forms, and you’ve got to organize. There is more to this but: we lost the revolution, and what was left were the culture wars. And: the anti-state state, and the anti-university university. This is the key … More MLA talk and Ferreira da Silva
Visit Art Attack. Go swimming. Visit museums. See friends. Look for Scandinavian things. Axé.
In the last 24 hours: 1/ The one who put a symposium together all with hard to get contacts that I had gotten for him, and at it, did not mention this. Thanked the Provost for the funding, but not me for putting him in touch with the speakers. 2/ The one who took all … More Sexism among friends
Central do Brasil O auto da compadecida Que horas ela volta Bacurau Bye Bye Brasil (2 votes) Things by Alberto Cavalcanti (ancient film, I have never seen his work, interesting, this is who my conservative friend recommends) Discussion: https://journals.openedition.org/cinelatino/597 Dizem: Tem 2 curtas que eu gosto: O Nóia Um dia no limite cujo roteiro é … More Brazilian film list
On protecting yourself. This is at Dame Eleanor Hull’s and it is very important. Axé.
The photocopy I am recycling today is of this book. I kept it for years because there was a time where it was the only text I knew of that would said: “The subaltern needs expressive subjectivity, but radical Western intellectuals think expressive subjectivity is conservative / oppressive, and so on.” THERE IS A PROBLEM … More Selected Subaltern Studies
Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion. Axé.
This is important to read. In my words: faux-anarchical anti-formations like hybridity, dissolution, and so on are part of the language of neoliberalism, not of something “subversive.” This was always my view, but it was not a permitted view when I was in formation myself, and not being allowed to say it was a large … More Anna Kornbluh
Notes toward my next piece of public writing (this was the last). People think Spanish in Mexico is a separate and inferior language and that “Castilian” is a rarefied, literary thing. Really, what we call “Spanish” is all Castilian, and it can be spoken in different dialects and speech registers, like English. It became “Spanish” … More On “Castilian”
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