1. Find abandoned Cecilia paper, and put it in Lyx. 2. Write Cottrol back. This is to be collegial so it is a formality but actually, what I have to say about his book I am going to also use as part of my text. 3. Go running or work out somehow. 4. Work on … More Plan for Tuesday
Our Mexico program did not make, so my summer in Mexico funded by three weeks of intensive teaching at the beginning is not going to take place in the planned form. I am disappointed because I want to make being in the DF a regular activity. I just lost a long post due to a … More Summer
This is just from Wikipedia but one could use the schedule and modernize it. A New Yorker might have: lemon juice and water, yoga, breakfast, a morning of writing, lunch, reading the news, an afternoon of research, the gym, dinner, a concert, relaxation, and sleep. The prince under consideration, better treated than Christian VII of … More A 15th century day of study
It is in the United States more than in Brazil that liberalism, or slavery, is a “misplaced idea.” Here the official national ideology was much more strongly liberal, and slavery was harder to buy one’s way out of. That is why the United States had to develop a much more hard-line form of racism in … More Cottrol
♦ Porque esta crisis estructural está acabando con las bases de una cultura material basada en el despilfarro del agua, de los alimentos, de los recursos naturales de todo tipo y en la producción masiva de desechos que la naturaleza no puede reciclar. ♦ One is complicit just by living here and may benefit personally … More On why just having one more reajuste will not cut it
I am moving this post up to work on the things in it. (The Espejo enterrado uses the Castro paradigm. One knows this but does not always remember it, so I have made this note.) I am rereading David Theo Goldberg’s 2002 book and it is my claim that with this tome, Balibar’s, Winant’s, and da … More David Theo Goldberg, and Lyx
If your conscience tells you one thing, and the Holy Father through the authority of the Magisterium has determined something else, then it is not your conscience against the hierarchy; there is actually, beneath what you think is your conscience, your real conscience which must, because you’re made by God, understand already, that you’re wrong. … More The Grand Inquisitor
I could do a series of interesting, mostly modernist paintings on this. One about being invaded, run over, chased across a field, cut down with a shovel (although in some dreams I make it across the border). A Cézanne, perhaps. Another about being in the Reeducation camp, perhaps by Klee (I would like to go … More On physical space
This is my last illumination for the night, from Wogglebug who has led us to a new consideration of verbal violence. From a certain point on (Reeducation, to be exact, which disallowed one from drawing a boundary around the violent world and putting it in its place, which is the best way to clear one’s … More On writing and verbal violence
So now, the water heater is also having difficulty. It never rains, but it pours. I have misplaced my ATM card somewhere in this house, and my driver’s license has disappeared — I am not sure where. I am nonetheless announcing an innovation: a moratorium on Reeducation posts. I reserve the right to revoke it … More A moratorium on “Reeducation” posts
