Freakish religion

Educated in Rome and New York, he is known for his semiorthodox views on the use of condoms, saying that married couples could possibly use them to prevent infection when one partner is H.I.V.-positive, although he has also defended Pope Benedict’s remark that condom use increases the risk of AIDS spreading. Axé.

Plan for Tuesday

1. Find abandoned Cecilia paper, and put it in Lyx. 2. Write Cottrol back. This is to be collegial so it is a formality but actually, what I have to say about his book I am going to also use as part of my text. 3. Go running or work out somehow. 4. Work on … More Plan for Tuesday

Summer

Our Mexico program did not make, so my summer in Mexico funded by three weeks of intensive teaching at the beginning is not going to take place in the planned form. I am disappointed because I want to make being in the DF a regular activity. I just lost a long post due to a … More Summer

Cottrol

It is in the United States more than in Brazil that liberalism, or slavery, is a “misplaced idea.” Here the official national ideology was much more strongly liberal, and slavery was harder to buy one’s way out of. That is why the United States had to develop a much more hard-line form of racism in … More Cottrol

On why just having one more reajuste will not cut it

♦ Porque esta crisis estructural está acabando con las bases de una cultura material basada en el despilfarro del agua, de los alimentos, de los recursos naturales de todo tipo y en la producción masiva de desechos que la naturaleza no puede reciclar. ♦ One is complicit just by living here and may benefit personally … More On why just having one more reajuste will not cut it

The Grand Inquisitor

If your conscience tells you one thing, and the Holy Father through the authority of the Magisterium has determined something else, then it is not your conscience against the hierarchy; there is actually, beneath what you think is your conscience, your real conscience which must, because you’re made by God, understand already, that you’re wrong. … More The Grand Inquisitor

On physical space

I could do a series of interesting, mostly modernist paintings on this. One about being invaded, run over, chased across a field, cut down with a shovel (although in some dreams I make it across the border). A Cézanne, perhaps. Another about being in the Reeducation camp, perhaps by Klee (I would like to go … More On physical space