Author: Iansã

Things

23/10/2022

I will change my ACLA title to Denise Ferreira da Silva, Globality, and Social Death. And I should withdraw and resubmit my IILI abstra For Spanish 442 I need those Cambridge Core volumes, Latin America in Transition, and MGM’s article on Martí. Also, Rama 1982. It’s a very good discussion of the rejection of Spain … More Things

Опричник

18/10/2022

Word for today: Опричник, oprichnik. I will learn the suffix -nik, ник, and apply it in English. I will learn to spell: noodnik, refusenik, vatnik, and other -nik words. I will discover the relation of -ik (Bolshevik, etc.) to -nik. Inspiration: Sorokin, Day of the Oprichnik. And there is also мобик, mobik. In other news … More Опричник

October 14-31

15/10/2022

14. Got to 7620. This is from 7474, so that is146 new words. I could go on but I have other things I must do. But I’ve gotten so far into this paper that it doesn’t take work to get back into it if I stop, and I can stop if I’m working because I’m … More October 14-31

Vallejo excursus

10/10/2022

I’m writing something else but want to have Vallejo footnotes. They’re distracting, poorly researched and poorly written, but I’ll put one here. Should I expand on it–should I write an article on that poem? His poem “Voy a hablar de la esperanza” (1928) detaches pain from identity or self: “Yo no sufro este dolor como … More Vallejo excursus

September log

03/09/2022

1 and 2: Nothing. Other work and also, staying up too late, which I want to stop doing. I started with 3556 words.3: 219 words. It took a long time and it took ignoring practical tasks. If I stop staying up so late, so I feel stronger, will this help me be more efficient or … More September log

Omi and Winant

14/08/2022

Typing lifted from Wikipedia, but good choice of quotation: “Becoming a citizen of this society is the process of learning to see race – that is, to ascribe social meanings and qualities to otherwise meaningless biological features. And in turn, race consciousness figures centrally in the building of a collective body of knowledge without which … More Omi and Winant

August log

01/08/2022

I’ll go back to July’s log and take notes from it, but I essentially struggled the whole time when I did try to work and could not figure out my transitional sentence. I did that today, August 1, and polished it. It wasn’t a writing problem, it was a thought problem. I think that, except … More August log