1/ Lott: hairsplitting accounting for differences is not interesting if these differences are not politically charged. Hollinger: racial mixture will fix racism! He replicates Myrdal’s liberalism: US is democratic but flawed, can be fixed, have progress. Guimarães: racial democracy is an incomplete project. Me: postethnic projects substitute normative mestizaje for the earlier normative whiteness. Hollinger … More More from that notebook
I am going to go through a long, very old, hand written notebook, take a few notes here from it, and then recycle it. One must rid oneself of things if one is to think. 1/ Republic should mean equality, but modernity is exclusionist: this is a problem. 2/ An article worth reading, on manners … More For this article
Meeting What is his agenda? What did we say about ourselves in our self-study (can we see our self-study)? Password for that organization [Almamater1!] Abstract — things one cannot say Is everything the fault of modernity, and if so, is it specifically the fault of Descartes? What are the exact problems, regarding this issue, with … More The next meeting, and abstract
Sufficient for 5 to 7 pounds of beef: 1/3 cup soy sauce, 1/3 cup rice wine or Mirim (can be found in Korean groceries, usually in the same aisle as vinegar and soy sauce), 1/3 cup honey, maple syrup or sweetener of choice (I use 1/4 cup turbinado sugar), one medium onion, a large handful … More Marinade for Korean steak
“In my own work I have argued that, rather than marking a rejection (as the hegemonic writers of the nation advocated) or the denial (as their critics insist) of race (i.e. racial difference), miscegenation institutes a mode of racial subjection predicated upon the necessary obliteration of the racial subaltern subject.” (ca. 2005) That sentence is … More Ferreira da Silva
These are two different things and they don’t go together. That is important to note. I was going to write a blog post on that, as applied to the university. 1/ Where are we now? My university is one of the most neoliberalized (I think) although it mixes that with a certain homespun quality. We … More Republican and economic modernity
1/ Martha Washington is related to the Fitzhughs my grandfather is related to, and one of these famously had children with slaves (I am assuming all the Washingtons did, but this was more famous/verified). See https://www.csmonitor.com/…/George-Washington-s-African-Ame… 2/ Now even the NYT has a 1619 Project and is talking about the plantation as the foundation of the … More La rentrée
I truly resent Chrome and Firefox demanding your phone number or other information if you try to open e-mail at the public library; I have never given them my number nor do I feel they are justified in expecting me to even have a telephone. I do not believe their requirements exist for my own … More Google
“It is well-known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery.” Axé.
The July 29 New Yorker has a beautiful article about Natalia Ginzburg, who is wonderful, and a fascinating one about Melville. Ginzburg: imagination is stronger when you are happy – suffering makes the imagination weak and lazy – drowning in emotions, and in particular, in pain is NOT what women writers should do. This is … More Ginzburg, Melville
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