A serious approach to resisting the Muslim registry, by our colleague Samir Chopra of Brooklyn College. Also, allegedly by Yale historian and Holocaust expert Timothy Snyder, twenty lessons from the twentieth century. 1. Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what … More Samir Chopra, Timothy Snyder
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A crumbling volume I am putting into recycling is Artaud, Les tarahumaras, in Gallimard/idées, 1971. I bought it used 10 years later. The text was composed between 1937 and 1948, after Artaud’s 1936 trip to Mexico. I marked some passages in it when I read it. P. 18: Westermers when asked a question react as … More Les Tarahumaras
There is much anti-Trump activity, like this. Below is a statement from the Democratic Socialists of America that I got by e-mail. Statement from DSA’s National Political Committee November 13, 2016 How Trump Won: Seizing the Anti-Establishment Ground through Racial and Economic Nationalism On November 8, voters in the United States narrowly elected an openly … More “We Fight for Socialism Over Barbarism”
I was looking for a good translation of Gramsci and discovered this professor. Look at the fascinating, brief bio-bibliography. Frank Rosengarten is professor emeritus of Italian and comparative literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Italian Anti-Fascist Press; The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): … More Frank Rosengarten
The journal issue I am recycling today is a boundary 2 from 1990. Specifically, boundary 2 17:2. It is of course available in JSTOR. I kept it because I always wanted to read all of it, and because I liked the way I had marked up Nancy Fraser’s article “The uses and abuses of French … More Nancy Fraser
A student gave me Adrienne Rich’s poem “Planetarium” on astronomer Caroline Hershel, because of feminist identification and because I had been an important professor. I did not know the poem and liked it because I take seriously the relationship between earth and sky. The reproductions I found were not laid out visually in the attractive … More “The skies are full of them”
Oficios menudos Considerando detenidamente la construcción moral de un gran pueblo se puede observar que lo que se llama «profesiones conocidas o carreras» no es lo que sostiene la gran muchedumbre; descártense los abogados y los médicos, cuyo oficio es vivir de los disparates y excesos de los demás; los curas, que fundan su vida … More Modos de vivir que no dan de vivir
Of Agamben, I was going to read the author as gesture. So I have remembered. I am looking through my files and finding my things. I once printed and wrote on this article by S. P. Guimarães, and kept the copy for years as I waited to work with it. I am going to take … More A modernidade negra
There is value in his prologue to the Ayacucho edition of Vallejo. I have a photocopy of this prologue in a file that I never look at, and the Chávez government (apparently) put all the Ayacucho books online for free, but I do not trust the permanence of that. I may buy a used copy … More Enrique Ballón Aguirre
