Beatriz Preciado

¿Y qué aportan esos ‘detritus del sistema’, como usted los llama? Inventan nuevas formas de relación personal y política que se salen de una coordenada que engancha con las políticas coloniales del siglo XV y que tienen que ver con la familia, la nación, la raza. Esa línea se ha agotado, hay que abrirse a … More Beatriz Preciado

She is Cuba

I have to get this book at Tulane. It is so tempting to just click “buy,” but no. Ideally, I not even check the book out: I will go there, read, and leave having actually conducted research. Or I will become very serious and use interlibrary loan, despite not liking to do this online. I … More She is Cuba

The sacrifice zone

Nowhere is the abuse as frightening as in Louisiana—with the exception, perhaps, of its neighbor to the east (“Thank God for Mississippi!” is the unofficial state motto). Louisiana is the second-poorest state and second-to-last in human development, which is a measure of individual freedom. The state’s rate of fatal cancers is about 30 percent higher … More The sacrifice zone

Frank Rosengarten

I was looking for a good translation of Gramsci and discovered this professor. Look at the fascinating, brief bio-bibliography. Frank Rosengarten is professor emeritus of Italian and comparative literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Italian Anti-Fascist Press; The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): … More Frank Rosengarten

Nancy Fraser

The journal issue I am recycling today is a boundary 2 from 1990. Specifically, boundary 2 17:2. It is of course available in JSTOR. I kept it because I always wanted to read all of it, and because I liked the way I had marked up Nancy Fraser’s article “The uses and abuses of French … More Nancy Fraser