On writing as powerful practice
26/11/2025
Yes. Axé.
Month: November 2025
Sobre la pos-mexicanidad
25/11/2025
There is this article that has good, nay, essential bibliography, but I am looking for an article I read a few days ago. The post-Mexican era began recently, as NAFTA collapsed I believe, and I need to understand these things more. We are now in an entity that replaces the one called Mexico. One important … More Sobre la pos-mexicanidad
One of the last psychoanalytic posts – notes
20/11/2025
I was to re-experience the feeling that people want to get rid of you, force you onto the street. I had this feeling from early on and had finally shaken it before I went into Reeducation. Shockingly, Reeducation wanted me to take that burden up again, take it up doubly. The basic message of analysis/Reeducation … More One of the last psychoanalytic posts – notes
Almost the last post on academic advice
11/11/2025
As we know, the things I dislike about academic advice is that it always involves going faster and faster, to do more and more. Do this for 15 minutes! Then go on to do another thing for 15 minutes! Switch ever faster from one task to the next! Never polish anything to completion, just call … More Almost the last post on academic advice
Books and authors I want to remember to teach
10/11/2025
Poniatowska on the earthquake, and more Marta Lamas García Manríquez on Mexican cultural institutions Karen Villeda César Aira (the literary conference novella is short enough) Bolaño, short things at least Alaíde Foppa And for research, The Counter-Revolution of 1776, this is absolutely epoch-making. …and I’d love to have Sergio Chejfec, and read more of him, … More Books and authors I want to remember to teach
The News
09/11/2025
I think I am over Reeducation. At least very close. I like my name Coldhearted Scientist but wonder whether I should get a new one for this phase. Axé.
Things to read
09/11/2025
The Fantasy Economy. The post-liberal university does more than redefine education as a private, rather than a public good (Newfield). It is a partisan good, beneficial only to some people. On the Reproduction of Capitalism. This is the Althusser book containing the famous essay about ISAs. One could read the whole thing. New Yorker article … More Things to read
New Planctus
03/11/2025
I don’t have time to write the post now but I was thinking earlier about Reeducation. I understood from my mother I should marry for food, and accept abuse in exchange for food. I did not do that but I realized today I can be made to accept that kind of relationship with work, and … More New Planctus
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