L’imaginaire néolibéral se révèle comme un dispositif de production de peur et de généralisation de l’impuissance, voué à corseter les imaginaires au prétexte de l’absence d’alternative. On y observe une métamorphose de la violence du régime d’accumulation, présentée comme inévitable, absolue, et dépolitisée. Il s’appuie sur une spacialisation et une culturalisation des rapports sociaux. Qu’il … More Imaginaires du néoliberalisme
Scholars of Latin American and Caribbean history have recently given a great deal of thought to both “race-making” and “nation-building.” [End Page 331] Many embrace the premise that race is a historical construct—a product of interactions among state policy, individual actions, and local politics—and elaborate compelling analyses of the racial dynamics on that basis. At … More Mais, find this article or book
Avant-garde antidiets and futurist cooking. I want to own this book but it is very expensive; I can get it at LSU or Tulane. I need it for possible future work on Oswald. Guide for the Mexican migrant. Rethinking the Spanish Empire through its archives. Taming PARES, or how to actually use the Spanish Archives … More Summer reading
Savage and barbarian were, I am told (and must find out), categories in nineteenth century international law. Friend: There is a stunning passage in Foucault’s book Society Must be Defended (1975-76) that compares the figure of the “savage” with that of the “barbarian” as these emerged in 17thc. historical writing in France. His description of … More Sarmiento encore
Δ This blog has few readers but me. It is a reason why I should merge it with my research blog, and work more on my research blog. Or spend more time organizing research notes in other platforms. Δ In any case, Mary Niall Mitchell at the University of New Orleans has this important project … More Mary Niall Mitchell, Akala, and more
I should have read, and should still read, Alberto Flores Galindo, Utopía en los Andes and Buscando un Inca. I was reminded of these reading an old review essay on views and representations of the Andean past and future. These things are important and I need to get cracking. I do not like working in … More Books I should have read: Alberto Flores Galindo
As a summer project, let’s compile a bibliography here. Are you joining me? Adaeseño Gregory, H.F., on adaeseño, 1996. Isleño MacCurdy, Raymond R. The Spanish Dialect in St. Bernard Parish. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1950. Axé.
The institution of “the other slavery” — the thinking behind it, the ways in which laws were passed and interpreted, how the practice of slavery itself took on many different guises — is alive today and in a world where the richest people exercise so much authority (in the form of political influence, economic power, … More La otra esclavitud
The “good” father is thus not the one who helps one find one’s own self but he who spares one inner conflict. He is the father who gives one permission to vent destructiveness, who releases one from struggling with one’s own conscience. in other words, the “good” father is the bad father, who completely destroys … More Arno Gruen
The Scandal of the Speaking Body must be an update of The Literary Speech Act. Amazingly, we have the latter book in our library so I can recycle my old photocopy of it. My notes in the margins, from the old days, say that promising turns out to be a big part of language (the … More Shoshana Felman
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