Academia will not love you back, one is told, but it does give some people a lot of love. Their writing is liked and rewarded, people admire them, they get raises and sabbaticals, their lectures draw large audiences, they have interesting fellowships and good dissertation students. I would like to experience love like that although … More The seer
1: Toda ciência tem princípios, de que deriva o seu sistema. Um dos princípios da Economia Política é o trabalho livre. Ora, no Brasil domina o fato impolítico e abominável da escravidão. BRAZIL IS NOT UNIQUE in this, though. And if slavery is not only essential to but constitutive of modernity, the quoted pamphlet may … More Schwarz
24: 107 words. Remembered Black Spartacus and started rereading Schwarz. 25: More Schwarz. 26: More Schwarz, and reached 134 words–finishing the paragraph. 27: Some more drafting, da Silva and Schwarz-thinking. Total finished word count is 2,026 now.I need to understand or articulate more about the short-circuits. 28: A bit of editing. Also, Dad died today. … More Log starting June 24
Is it safe to consider the possibility of love? is the question the Tarot reader said I had been testing out in this psychic space. Could it become safe to be a person, the subject of one’s own acts? What if accepting love did not imply imprisonment and servitude? “Everything looks dangerous to you, everything … More Tarot
Tuesday, May 10: Read Grüner, thought.Wednesday, May 11: Worked on text, also read de Castro, Rama. I have 1345 polished words not including the footnotes, and some of my unpolished ones are more polished. I am comfortably into the piece now, and fascinated–and could drop my irrational work habits, I do not need them because … More Log May 10-15
Saturday: Touched the text. Just a few minutes.Sunday: Worried it, changed it, for an hour or so. Resolved: this week I read and organize notes.Monday: Looked briefly at some notes, touched the text.Tuesday: Edited briefly, made some progress.Wednesday: Missed.Thursday: Edited, thought, made some progress. There is a lot to do.Friday: Missed.Saturday: Edited some. There 1,134 … More Log April 23-May 9
This famous article is on JSTOR so I am recycling the marked-up copy from 1989, when it came out. That was 33 years ago. The piece is old but it’s classic, and the points it makes, even though no longer new, still apply. Some things I liked in it back then:– identity is not an … More Hall: Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation
I am declutterinng and it means trying to decipher pieces of paper upon which I wrote important things. One of them is the title of this post–the idea that there ARE infrastructures of race. And there’s a book about it, that I have to get. The point is that processes of racialization begin sooner than … More Infrastructures of race
Saturday, April 16. One hour. I edited another sentence and came up to a total of 1051 words, that is to say, I added 54 words. 800 of these words are firm and very good.Sunday, April 17. Discovered that I don’t like my photocopy of Desde Europa and discovered you can get the whole book … More Yet another log
Sunday, April 10: Edited 49 words. My total is now 722. I put in a footnote on Mignolo and I see I will have to deal with him somewhat seriously. 30 minutesMonday, April 11: Edited 47 words. My total is now 748. I think what I wrote today was original philosophy and that I was … More Another log
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