Raza y vanguardia. El sujeto “mestizo” en César Vallejo

Abstracto La ambigüedad y el misterio, la insistencia en la raíz doble, el yo dividido, la sensación de ser otro, juntos con cierto indigenismo visible en Los heraldos negros y el creciente interés en la cultura autóctona de los años treinta, han motivado lecturas “mestizas” de Vallejo desde Mariátegui (1928) hasta Jorge Guzmán (1991). Al … More Raza y vanguardia. El sujeto “mestizo” en César Vallejo

A light post

I might need a present. One of the beds, which I bought in late graduate school and was wonderful, is having some trouble with the slats and has no headboard. I could repair the slats if I got the right burlap and staples but it would still have no headboard. I am shopping. I have … More A light post

Salò

We will have to re-watch this now that society has become so sadistic. I don’t think I realized when I saw it, when it was new, that Salò was the Italian Social Republic, and that it was real. Axé.

La grande bellezza

It may not be possible for all to see the epoch-making Hockney exhibit at the DeYoung Museum, as I have done, but more can perhaps see this film, which exists in a similar vein, the next generation of realizations and images. Seriously. Axé.