That’s a now old and famous book, but I have some old notes of mine on a page of an old review whose author I don’t know. So we will write them here before I recycle this piece of paper, to stimulate thought. My notes were that this is then the beginning of that literature-nation-state … More Literature and the state: Julio Ramos, Desencuentros de la modernidad
For that paper, I can use the What is a scholar series. I am so cooking. Axé.
Amo escrever. To plan the March presentation I should perhaps think in terms of pages like a few disparate slides. I can write them separately, starting anywhere, and give each one bullet points, with quotations. Something like: We will see. But I love to do research and to write, and I love theory. I want … More Intentions for the new year
…diálogo e diferença na cultura brasileira. It’s Haroldo de Campos and it was originally published in the Boletim Bibiliográfico, I think of Mario de Andrade vol. 44 n. 1/4 S. Paul, Jan.-Dez. 1983. 106-27. It is a classic article and I am recycling my photocopy, nostalgic though that is. I’m sure I can find it … More Haroldo de Campos: Da razão antropofágica
… from the review essay, due to lack of space, but that I would like to use or think about somewhere else. Axé.
RussianPod on Facebook is one grammar/vocabulary/pronunciation method. Boston University has a great Russian poetry site for learning. I’ll start with Daniil Kharms. That’s Даниил Хармс, of course. And I learned about the Red Line Podcasts. Day 2. хуй мне, а не метро – slang. “What I got was dick, not metro.” Обморок – faint (n.) … More Materials for Russian, and more
At first there was an apartment in the Polytechnic Museum, then they lived on Myasnitskaya (there is also a construction office), then they rented a house near the Kursk Way, in 1901 they bought their own house in Arkhangelsky Lane. Axé.
This is a good translation. Mine had coffee spilled on it or something, and got warped, and I have just recycled it. But I might reacquire it. Axé.
Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx is available, so it is no longer necessary to have an old and blurry photocopy of it, made after requesting it from Interlibrary Loan. But it’s a great text. “One cannot be orthodox at any price and a lover of the truth at the same time,” says author Sidney … More Sidney Hook
“They were trying to explain to me that this wasn’t gonna get better, because … this is how they operate in Louisiana,” says Walker, who is Black. You have no voice. Once you speak out like you do in California, you may come up dead, hurt or missing. People that I worked with actually thought … More I would love to find the source of this
coldhearted scientist وداد 