Still, if we are slipping from liberalism to fascism, and if radical democracy or socialism is nowhere on the political horizon, don’t we have to defend liberal democratic institutions and values? Isn’t this the lesson of Weimar? I have labored to suggest that this is not the right diagnosis of our predicament: it does not … More Wendy Brown
I am plagiarizing this post from the Facebook page of a colleague, and hope that is all right. Look: Correspondences: Adorno on Benjamin: “Despite extreme individuation […] Benjamin seems empirically hardly to have been a person at all, rather an arena of movement in which content forced its way, through him, into language.” Jim Siegel … More On subjectivity, language and the body
From my dialogues elsewhere. Person A, quoting Pessoa: Whether we write or speak or do but look Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will … More Vallejo Lorca Spicer Stein Pessoa Drummond
I will get hold of it. Axé.
Roland Barthes in Image–Music–Text, here. I was reminded of it because of a piece on Stuart Hall by Homi Bhabha in Critical Inquiry, and I miss reading Critical Inquiry and some other things. The grain is the voice in the body as it sings, and this is one more road leading to or from Vallejo. Bhabha … More “The ‘grain’ is the voice in the body as it sings”
Instructions for writing and life. Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no more new material to ‘Black Spring.’ Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you … More Henry Miller and me
Every evening, a hideously painful spasm in the ribs. I read, for a long time, sitting up in bed – the only position I can endure. I’m a poor old wounded Don Quixote, sitting on his arse in his armour at the foot of a tree. Armour is exactly what it feels like, a hoop … More Alphonse Daudet’s house of pain
Note: “El escritor argentino y la tradición” is next, so no, you are not free. And it appears that being only seems to exist because time seems to pass. No hay tal yo de conjunto. Grimm, en una excelente declaración del budismo (Die Lehre des Buddha, München, 1917), narra el procedimiento eliminador mediante el cual … More Final nadería
El yo no existe. Schopenhauer, que parece arrimarse muchas veces a esa opinión la desmiente tácitamente, otras tantas, no sé si adrede o si forzado a ello por esa basta y zafia metafísica -o más bien ametafísica-, que acecha en los principios mismos del lenguaje. Empero, y pese a tal disparidad, hay un lugar en … More Further nadería
A través de un análisis genealógico de los términos mestizo y mestizaje, este artículo revela que dichos vocablos son doblemente híbridos. Por un lado, ellos albergan la hibridez empírica construida sobre taxonomías raciales de los siglos XVIII y XIX, según las cuales los «mestizos» son individuos no indígenas, resultado de la mezcla biológica o cultural. … More Hybridity in the word mestizaje
coldhearted scientist وداد 