From Austerlitz, I learned about this Resnais short obliquely based on Borges, Toute la mémore du monde. This article, about architecture in the Bibliothèque Nationale of France, complements the film and the novel very well. And here is a set of 13 films of works by Borges and Bioy Casares. How do you see film … More Alain Resnais
This would be an interesting course to give, by the way, and an interesting topic for a freshman seminar. There are all these people and materials I did not know about, like Francisco Boix the photographer of Mauthausen. There was an exposition on him, and there is a book. Another point of interest is Xavier … More Spain in the Holocaust
There were two, one night after the next, of my mother that I remember having, although the second has faded and I cannot retell it. It was friendly, between both of my parents as well, as was the first. There, they were living in San Francisco and I was visiting. It was a sunny day. … More Dreams
Here is the topic. I am of course wagged by tails, and to be wagged by a tail is to have the self-absorption of the neurotic. My tails include the idea that I am not self-critical enough, when in fact the opposite is true. My main tail involves the belief that I must mitigate the … More Tails wagging dogs
Postive motivation: I am enjoying this and I wish to continue. Neutral motivation: I want this to be finished, so I will continue. Negative motivation: I must prove myself (and please people), so I will do this. The negative motivation is negative because it assumes one is insufficient. It focuses very heavily on this insufficient … More A hierarchy of motivation
Text by Rimbaud. Axé.
Un fotógrafo que después declaró en Nuremberg. Y como si no fuera suficiente, aquí van los últimos andaluces de Mauthausen. Y una más sobre Boix. Y hay más: el último español de Buchenwald, memorias de Elsa Osaba de Mauthausen, Saturnino Navaso, futbolista de Mauthausen. Axé.
There are so many things about Bourdieu. And Sánchez-Prado has some new edited books coming out: on Mexico and world literature, and Bourdieu and Latin America. The point is that Latin America is so often the beginning point, not the imitator of modern processes, yet the central countries do not recognize this. I said this … More Bourdieu
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