Gabilondo discusses Spanish nationalisms after European integration, and the idea of nations without states, or post-nation-state nationalisms, is interesting. What implications does it have? These nationalisms mirror franquista nationalism, so they are unlike modern nationalisms in that they try NOT to hybridize (contrast García Canclini). And since Spain is now part of global and not … More Nations without states
Projection: ILL Cannibal Translation, Moraña, Castro-Klarén. Email Prieto and Paula, Emily and Nathaniel. Brent, Dorota, and keep on going. Sigma Delta Pi report. Revise syllabi. Axé.
I’ve already written them back but I wanted to send a postscript, and desisted. I had said: to focus more on coloniality/decoloniality I can’t JUST do Ferreira da Silva. And that I couldn’t see talking about these things without at least referring to Gilmore’s work. I didn’t say, but am now thinking, hm, maybe I … More World’s fattest revision request
14 August. Got hold of Ruffinelli book. 15 August. Got some study abroad things done. 16 August. More study abroad. And some bureaucratic progress. I am behind but the main thing is, I am feeling all right. I have to keep feeling all right and not do anything self-destructive. 17-21 August. From the list below, … More Le log du 14 août
I learned that the Foo Fighters are headlining Outside Lands tonight. Shaquille O’Neal has become a performance DJ, and he was there yesterday. And DJ Qbert who basically invented the scratch form of hiphop, was there with his original crew, the Invisibl Skratch Piklz. One is to see the documentary Scratch. And there is more to … More Outside Lands
Rigensgade 5, this is where I want to go in Copenhagen, to see his photography. All of it, but in particular the Soviet portraits. Axé.
T. S. Eliot, in The Atlantic, 1954. I got it from SMT. Axé.
7 August. Worked on my text. I am up to 5500 words, which means I have 200 new words this week. Working on Spillers, old Patricia Hill Collins article. Was tired today due to the cat’s illness, did not do a great deal else, but notice that even with fatigue and everything I am not … More Le log du 7 août
Here is the text (from my library, it won’t work for you) as published in the Minnesota Review in 1975. I’ve downloaded it. I’ve been carrying around a paper copy of it as a NYU working paper for 48 years. It’s still fresh. There is a lot in it and I carried it around because … More Dependency theory and literary history: the case of Latin America
I am recycling my paper copy because I have this issue (like all others) available online. I must remember its existence, though. Axé.
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