Elizabeth Monasterios
And we will read about these Andean avant-gardes. There is so much I am interested in. 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
Here we have a very important article on the neoliberal university, that I will study, called “Contingent No More.” Related to it is the infantilization entailed in reducing citizens to consumers. This post mentions a book on advertising and persuasion, which according to Cliff Arroyo emphasizes infantilization as a key to coercion. This journal Transmodernidad, … More Mundos neoliberales
I want to read Bauman’s Social Europe book. Perhaps, since the book comes in non-traditional forms, this is something I will do while traveling. I submitted something to my writing group but must not forget to do something with it once I get it back. It has potential to be overshadowed but should not. After … More A chronicle of crisis
You have to order the version I want from France, it seems. Do you think I could get it in New York? And look, look at this film. Axé.
There are all these books, new books, amazing South American anthropology and theory books, that you can download from the Antropologías del sur site. There is also a really smart post about writing productivity. ♦ I keep forgetting that I am slightly dissociative, or slightly withdrawn. I forget because it is almost imperceptible, and then … More Antropologías del sur
The March 2006 PMLA (121:2) is one of those I kept, to study, and am no longer because those articles are now available online and: you must clear out bookshelves if you are to see what you have. I kept it because it had articles about the body and corporeality, including one on Descartes and … More Sur le corps