I learned about this book from Clarissa’s blog and am now reading it as well. This post is an aide-mémoire, not a full discussion. a. The exploitation of freedom. “Freedom will prove to have been merely an interlude.” It is felt when passing from one way of living to another, until this too turns out … More Psychopolitics 1: the crisis of freedom
Dustin Welch García, Book Review of Imagined Globalization, AmeriQuests 12.1 (2015). Nestor García Canclini. 2014. Imagined Globalization, trans. G. Yúdice. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Pages: 242. Paperback: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8223-5461-1 The recent English translation and publication of Nestor García Canclini’s Imagined Globalization, which first appeared in Spanish in 1999, offers a nuanced examination … More Imagined globalization (reviewed by Dustin Welch García)
I started being depressed on November 19, 1991 and may have stopped on April 3, 2019. That makes it less than 28 years. Most people I know have not known me that long. But the cause would have been deciding it was necessary to take Da Whiteman’s ideas seriously and the cure, realizing exactly how … More “Saving my strength for running”
Forward by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, with essays by Reynaldo Ortiz and Matt Pettway, among others. Axé.
If you search this as a keywords through your library interface you will find that there is a great deal of material, much of it in Portuguese and Spanish. There’s a name I’ve been given, Adrianna Kezar, on this but based on titles, a review she wrote seems more immediately interesting to me now than … More Academic capitalism
Other people read novels but to regenerate I like to read academic articles out of immediate field. This is Silvia Goldman, “Alonso Quijano o el relativismo inmutable,” RILCE 24.2 (2008) 323-337. DQ: between the medieval and renaissance worlds, dramatizing the social transformations that occurred with the advent of print culture … “El Quijote es el … More Reading for pleasure Friday
It is raining and it reminds me of Mexico, Chile, Berkeley, Oregon, places I wish I lived and where I could walk to bookstores. I would like to stay home and read today and this would in fact be research. “Tenho saudade de tudo.” My colleague says the problem here is that so many in … More La nostalgie
I got up in Dupont Circle and walked past the row houses to a café, had coffee and came back and packed. I walked to the metro and rode to the airport, changing trains once. At the airport I read old notes on Vallejo and transcribed them, including the outline of an old conference paper, … More Another world
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