But so good. I have had some wonderful times in academia, actually. The papers of my 1989 or 1990 LASA panel in Miami, on race, with Josaphat Kubayanda, Howard Winant, Peter Wade. The most interesting to me now is Kubayanda’s work on maroon discourse. I guess I am keeping the Kubayanda, I am not sure … More Things too tattered to keep. Maroon discourse
Imperio restaurativo is the ideology the elites of the Spanish state articulate to resolve the crises they generate. It proposes that the state as an institution is the solution to these crises, because it can restore us to a former condition – an imperial one. So we promote a political fantasy of constant and open … More España postimperial
“El gran Marcelo Bielsa dejó explicado que no hay nada peor que el éxito de un mal ejemplo: no hay problema si un buen proceso fracasa, porque es algo habitual; el problema aparece cuando un proceso mal planteado es exitoso y lanza el mensaje de que un atajo puede llevarte a un buen lugar. Porque … More Paraguayan Radio
The Enchantress of Florence. The mob went after Machiavelli when he lost power “These people were good people, thought il Machia, these few people of his own, but in general the people of Florence were traitors. It was the people who had betrayed the republic and invited the Medici back. The people whom he had … More The enchantress of Florence
Feeling coerced, rushed. Disbelieved, mistrusted. Many mundane demands, many destructive people to satisfy. Many with needs greater than my own, many people hurt by luminosity. I must self-mutilate to fit in or I will not be safe. Joy and optimism are crushed and called insane or hurtful here. I feel Irritation, boredom, anger, fear, regret, … More My emotions around work
There was just something so unsettling about it, I assume maturity and good will as a rule and I am always surprised not to find it. One should be more suspicious, perhaps, but I don’t know. There’s been something deep about this interaction though, somehow related to my mother asking for so much effort and … More A strange interaction
