One that is used by many people in Florida, and someone else’s individual one. They use good resources and are related to mine, but they do different things too, which is interesting. And there’s a picture of me. Florida. Catherine Ramírez at UCSC. All these people are related to me intellectually somehow, and make me … More Two LAS syllabi

1/ From Soto (I need his other book on choleaje, and I want to finish this one–and reread Clayton, and some of the people they both cite): Años después, Marco Martos y Elsa Villanueva harán un análisis exhaustivo de T I en su libro fundamental «Las palabras de Trilce» (1989). Pero fue Gonzalo Sobejano quien … More Library

Soto’s book costs s/40 but mailing costs are s/230 which is $68 today. I’ll wait to see how I’ll get it, and read his other book in the meantime. Axé.

I think I’ve put my finger on it, it’s those feelings of unworthiness (more than guilt/shame) added to the fact that I gave my work to a Them. So I am never working for me, and never fully placing myself in work. Partly that’s for reasons we have already discussed at length, work became a … More Meanwhile

I didn’t say all of that because why let him take (more) energy? Axé.

I must read this book. And I think Spivak’s famous article may have clues to my project. Knowledge. The West sees subalternity as the site of unmediated truth, someone said. That is why people have to have passed through Blackness. Axé.

A student long ago said of someone: “Well, he has no job skills other than his native language, so he has to convince everyone that being what you are studying is the only valid form of knowledge.” Axé.

“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if … More Audre Lorde, on the recognition and denial of difference

Apparently it only exists in theory. States do but the bounded hexagon with its homogeneous culture and so on doesn’t really exist. If that’s true, it would explain all the contortions certain authors go through trying to represent the nation. It’s not that it doesn’t exist yet, or that we’re creating the first ones, it’s … More The nation-state

And Latin American elites make moves around their constitutive others similar to what the Russians do. So the term colonial discourse remains relevant, it seems. Snyder keeps talking about empire, colonialism and representations of nation. The fact that Russia and postcolonial Latin American elite discourse use so many of the same “rhetorical patterns” (as Jennie … More More notes following Snyder