El yo no existe. Schopenhauer, que parece arrimarse muchas veces a esa opinión la desmiente tácitamente, otras tantas, no sé si adrede o si forzado a ello por esa basta y zafia metafísica -o más bien ametafísica-, que acecha en los principios mismos del lenguaje. Empero, y pese a tal disparidad, hay un lugar en … More Further nadería
Tension physical pain headache fatigue sorrow regret anger nostalgia depression desire claustrophobia frustration oppression … these were some of my feelings last night and this morning. Then there is this: When I was teaching — especially at the University of Oregon and the University of Texas — my experience was always defined by limits. How … More Mejoré, but this morning…
A través de un análisis genealógico de los términos mestizo y mestizaje, este artículo revela que dichos vocablos son doblemente híbridos. Por un lado, ellos albergan la hibridez empírica construida sobre taxonomías raciales de los siglos XVIII y XIX, según las cuales los «mestizos» son individuos no indígenas, resultado de la mezcla biológica o cultural. … More Hybridity in the word mestizaje
Mérida: my favorite city in Spain and also Mexico, and perhaps one day in Venezuela. Octavio Paz wrote a beautiful essay on it in 1937 and I would like to read this discussion of it on paper. Paz: Mérida, la ciudad moderna, dulce y clara, es el henequén. La vida. La muerte de los campesinos. … More Henequén as social actor: dos lunas en Yucatán
Axé.
I have removed everything I have from the cumbersome Endnote and placed it in the virtuous Zotero, and that is how things will be. I will place things from the Seminario there, and from Evernote. I have become quite serious and will become moreso. I have not yet discovered whether I like Scrivener but I … More Zotero
I must renounce fretting over my participation in our foreign language program for Lent at least, and ideally forever. In relation to my distress over this, however, I had a strange conversation today. I am told that most faculty became faculty because they loved their professors as undergraduates and wanted to be just like them, … More A curious conversation
DE UN CAMINANTE ENFERMO QUE SE ENAMORÓ DONDE FUE HOSPEDADO Descaminado, enfermo, peregrino en tenebrosa noche, con pie incierto la confusión pisando del desierto, voces en vano dio, pasos sin tino. Repetido latir, si no vecino, distinto, oyó de can siempre despierto, y en pastoral albergue mal cubierto piedad halló, si no halló camino. Salió … More Góngora 1594
I will study this. Axé.
I cannot update system software because third party repositories are interfering — my package system is broken. I must also say sudo apt-get install-f in the terminal, and have it understand and act on this, which it is not doing. I will resolve these things when I return from the tropics — I am going … More My OS is terribly corrupted
