Le log du 10 septembre – and Emmelhainz

10: Some work on that abstract, which tends more toward the MLA or Caribbean Studies Association, even, not to that particular ACLA panel. Some work reading Emmelheinz. Self-destruction is a kind of reaction to the violence of the atmosphere but we can still fight it.

More Emmelheinz: the ethics of love proposed by the great social movements for freedom and justice goes against the root of colonialism (alienation, detachment).

The 20th century struggle for decolonization involved the modernization of “the people” — so did not entirely undo coloniality/modernity, and also imported MORE Western ideas to Latin America. But this movement DID posit common interests of indigenous peoples and criollos; indigenous people were to be included in the nation-state’s modernization project

We have to embody ourselves beyond gender and destroy the notion of the individual (which is male and must destroy a she-other).

Axé.


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