The Open

Where even the shadow has light, there summer is spoken. Where darkness speaks you– a word– you still say light. Where the body is, you say convocation, absolute sun. –Andrés Sánchez Robyana, trans. J. Mayhew, in The Nation 295:16 (15.X.2012): 32. Axé.

What is a scholar?

Et voilà, now we know. Once again, that is what I would have said, at eleven, seventeen, twenty-four, thirty-one, until I met professors. Namely, assistant professors who had been protégés of famous people at famous schools, and had jobs for this reason. Also, associate and full professors who had attained these ranks by pleasing the … More What is a scholar?

David Graeber

“For much of human history, systems of virtual money were designed and regulated to ensure that nothing like capitalism could ever emerge to begin with – at least not as it appears in its present form, with most of the world’s population placed in a condition that would in many other periods of history be … More David Graeber

El vendedor de agua

El vendedor de agua Canción Autor: Francisco Repilado Muñoz y Lorenzo Hierrezuelo Caserita vendo agua Un cubito para ti Caserita vendo agua Un cubito para ti. La traigo barata y limpia Cómprame el agua a mí El aguador caserita ya llegó Agua para limpiar y tomar También para cocinar La traigo pura y limpita El … More El vendedor de agua

Gáspár Miklós Tamás

“I have coined the term post-fascism to describe a cluster of policies, practices, routines and ideologies which can be observed everywhere in the contemporary world. Without ever resorting to a coup d’etat, these practices are threatening our communities. They find their niche easily in the new global capitalism, without upsetting the dominant political forms of … More Gáspár Miklós Tamás

Alain Renoir

In my graduate program, which was quite rigorous, there were people more advanced than I who knew older languages and older professors, and who said the unusual breadth combined with depth of this program, which made it so long, was Alain Renoir’s fault. This Renoir was the son of the filmmaker and the grandson of … More Alain Renoir