Manuel Zapata Olivella, abridor de caminos
14/06/2013
Axé.
Author: Iansã
It’s so Spanish…
14/06/2013
Foods I have eaten since arriving in New Orleans are: – seafood gumbo – shrimp remoulade – trout with crabmeat Foods remaining to be eaten are: – sausage and rabbit jambalaya – seafood omelette po-boy – shrimp grillade If you are perceptive, you will see the Spanishness of all this. Axé.
En ville
14/06/2013
Hattie says the problem with academic advice is the either/or thinking. This is a very good analysis. Just because I am delivering the final blows to my enemy, academic anti-advice, don’t think I am not on vacation — I am. Now, I am on the back patio of this precise building. Can you place it? … More En ville
Categories of academic advice
14/06/2013
I really will have to write my manual since I have so much to say. The question on advice is, what are the motives of the advisor? 1/ Sharing, and money. They are willing to sell expertise. Fair enough. 2/ Things people wish they had known: they wish to share experience and views. Of interest. … More Categories of academic advice
Still more on academic advice
13/06/2013
Here is what Rob Brezsny has to say to me this week — fortunately since I am going on vacation for FOUR DAYS, during which I will only do teaching related activity and no research. Let the boundaries blur a bit. Don’t stick too rigidly to the strict definitions. Play around with some good old-fashioned … More Still more on academic advice
Modernity and the law
13/06/2013
“Yeah, it’s as though the law nominally exists for us, but is held from us at the same time.” There is something about this. It is my evoke-and-elide thesis again. Things exist yet do not, and this appears to be a characteristic of modern states. I do not understand it yet but much of what … More Modernity and the law
Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words
12/06/2013
The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as are their proclamations that the mestizo is superior rather than degraded. The mestizo nation of … More Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words
157 revised, and still not excellent words
12/06/2013
The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as is their reading of mixture to have produced a superior, and not degraded or derivative … More 157 revised, and still not excellent words
I do not like this paragraph after all, and must improve the prose
11/06/2013
It is in the twentieth century that this racialized discourse becomes cultural, and mestizaje becomes a trope for the nation. The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s through the 1960s and beyond, are derived from … More I do not like this paragraph after all, and must improve the prose
Total words today, 92 and continuing, as I procrastinate about taking the car to the shop…
11/06/2013
If mestizaje in the colonial period was a strategy supporting hispanization and European hegemony, the nineteenth century nation-states harnessed it to marginalize blackness and indigeneity yet more thoroughly than the colony had done (Mariátegui 1928, Lund). The mestizo as idealized citizen-subject supported, and did not contest elite hegemony; alliances were with the lighter, not the darker … More Total words today, 92 and continuing, as I procrastinate about taking the car to the shop…
