J. E. Pacheco, Morirás lejos. On James Mill, progressive versus traditional education, and charter schools. The other Foucault — what led him to politics? Crackeros, novelists I should read. I want to read but first I need to calm down. I don’t feel calm in small towns. I’d also like to live somewhere with bookstores, … More Things to read
It is important to read this. Axé.
I’ve stopped categorizing posts or posting enough, and it has to do with a family crisis. I’ve considered announcing a hiatus or even declaring an end to the blog! But I haven’t decided yet. If you’ve followed my posts on Facebook you’ll know about the crisis, and about how it is forcing me to cure … More Des idées, yeah
I recycled my tattered copy of Atala but found in it these yellowed notes, that I will transcribe and decipher later. I see that I have always been interested in the same things. Atala: le récit. 1. LES CHASSEURS. Chactas and his father are allied with Spaniards against Muscogles (Indians). Chactas is a prisoner of … More Atala
Writings. Axé.
And we will read about these Andean avant-gardes. There is so much I am interested in. Axé.
This was an issue of the journal I liked quite a lot at the time and always kept to reread, but that has yellowed. Yet we can still read it. Axé.
Here is a book we definitely need to get. Axé.
I do not agree with everything in this Appiah article on primitivism but there are some very interesting references in it. ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ I have been in Utrecht for a week and it has changed me greatly. I want to live here. I looked at some notes I made the first day and I know so … More On primitivism and aristocracy
Joan Didion, again. “Writing is an aggressive, hostile act.” Trysh Travis: [In] graduate teaching, this means helping students figure out what they are arguing about complex and multifaceted topics with which they tend to have, in clinical mental health terms, deeply codependent relationships. . . . . . . bell hooks calls the process “coming … More Writing is the act of saying I
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