I As of today I am hiding in Mexico for two whole weeks. There are posts coming up, but they have been written ahead of time! Where I really wanted to be this summer, of course, was the Faroes first and Brazil second, and also several interesting places in the United States. But I am … More Des Voitures. Sobre los hombres y el feminismo.
La Changeseeker explica por qué tenemos todos que leer a Marjane Satrapi. A continuación reproducimos unos trozos de la entrevista con Satrapi que cita la Changeseeker: Satrapi: If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, ‘This is normal.’ Every day, wake up with this idea that you have … More Marjane Satrapi
En el blog de Lisa, supe del escritor noruego Per Petterson, quien dice: “If you consider it, what you say has less importance in your life compared to what you think. The words you say are also outnumbered by your thoughts.” Per Petterson “I wanted to do what the good writers did, and I knew … More Per Petterson
I Another book I would like to reread is Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo. I think of it now because I have realized that academic writing is easier than blogging. I started blogging to jump-start academic writing, but their relationship seems to have reversed itself. This might be a sign of success. My scholarly texts would … More Jazz Poem, Voodoo Aesthetics
Ralph Ellison and Octavio Paz? I am not sure this would work, but it occurs to me. Read this and think about it: Ralph Ellison and alienation: It would seem an obvious pairing. After all, he won his initial acclaim for extending the most fashionable affectation of the 1950s onto black America. Yet he may … More Dissertation Topic
Thanks to Antrobiótica we have learned of a marvelous book: The Zombie of Greater Peru, or, The Countess of Cockaigne, by Pierre-Corneille Blessebois (1646-~1700). It has 145 pages, and was published in Rouen in 1697; its existence indicates that zombies were already being discussed in Europe then. The book is catalogued in the French National … More Des livres
According to Stephen Gregory in The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic (U of California P, 2006), citizenship is a “technology of power” that enables the tourism police to enforce a kind of social hygiene on the behalf of tourists, who do not want to be irritated by vendors or … More Illegal at Home
1. The French Revolution did not give rise to the contemporary human rights movement, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man was as puny as Oswald de Andrade said it was. Hunt pays homage to the soft power of humanity. Toussaint, for his part, found it necessary to resort to weapons. 2. Newly discovered … More Des livres pour les vacances
I thought encyclopedias were a comparatively modern invention, but there is the Suda: (Σοῦδα or alternatively Suidas Σουΐδας) is a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopædia of the ancient Mediterranean world. It is an encyclopædic lexicon with 30,000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost. The derivation is from the … More Esoterica
A new, and I project very interesting book is Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Toward a Global Idea of Race (Minnesota, 2007). From the publisher (emphasis added): [W]hy, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of … More Toward a Global Idea of Race
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