Author: Iansã

Rien n’est fini

03/12/2017

But it seems that my father is going to die. Here is something his accountant suggested as a mantra. In purest outpoured light, shimmers the godhead of the world… (it begins) this is a verse Rudolf Steiner wrote, so the godhead is many gods that have dwindled or died and live in the (ether-spiritual-other world, … More Rien n’est fini

Sur la linguistique

03/12/2017

Why was it that, back then when we were in Comparative Literature, we thought Linguistics was the other cool field? I think it had to do with not being a discipline that reproduced a nation-state or the Area Studies model, and that was theoretical, and that (we thought then) could begin to dismantle colonial arrangements … More Sur la linguistique

P.S.A.

30/11/2017

1. Catalan is a language, not a dialect. 2. All of Spanish America speaks Castilian. 3. There are very many literate Mexicans, including winners of the Nobel Prize in literature, and Mexicans are completely comprehensible to other Spanish speakers. 4. I, as a person who speaks educated Spanish and am really competent in it, can … More P.S.A.

David Harvey

24/11/2017

Concept: capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, established by the instrumentality of things. (Note: I really should have spent all the time I spent trying to understand Derridean coursework into trying to understand Marx, and I am fairly sure the reason we had to read so much Derrida and Foucault … More David Harvey

Je voulais dire

24/11/2017

I had meant to post some time ago that you should not tell your children they are inferior / defective / less than. We were told we were incompetent, although we could not see it (that was part of the incompetence). That was why we were to do things our parents liked. We would fail, … More Je voulais dire

The update

24/11/2017

It isn’t really a union fight, it is a struggle against patriarchal violence. Also, O union men, I am not sure how deeply conscious you are if the first solution you think of in difficult times is layoffs. Axé.

Travailler, c’est dur

24/11/2017

I cannot believe I am now in a union fight. Addison Schroeder IWW, great-uncle, stand me now in good stead. My slogans appear to come from the 60s and to be: Hey hey! Ho ho! ___ has got to go! and One, two, three, four, let’s walk ___ out the door! Axé.