Exceso de vida, instinto de muerte
19/10/2025
I’ve always liked the title of this piece – it’s worthy of Bataille – and I like Sarmiento’s writing, and enjoy his ravings. … More Exceso de vida, instinto de muerte
Category: Borderlands
España postimperial
17/11/2024
Imperio restaurativo is the ideology the elites of the Spanish state articulate to resolve the crises they generate. It proposes that the state as an institution is the solution to these crises, because it can restore us to a former condition – an imperial one. So we promote a political fantasy of constant and open … More España postimperial
Flores Magón and anarchist farmworkers in California
11/05/2024
This is very important. Axé.
Carne y arena
30/09/2020
In my study group we read an interesting paper about this that said it was reformist and not revolutionary. Axé.
Guerra neoliberal
30/07/2020
Desaparición y búsqueda en el norte de México. The complete book. Axé.
Jorge Klor, “evoke-and-elide,” and the colonial difference
17/06/2020
I had a footnote using Jorge Klor de Alva . . . something smart from, I think, 1995 . . . and I am going to have to resurrect this in a next paper. What is the “colonial difference” (Mignolo)? In theory I know, but there is more to know about it. Is evoke-and-elide the … More Jorge Klor, “evoke-and-elide,” and the colonial difference
The last juicy footnote
16/06/2020
The text: I would add and emphasize that the literary construction of a national subject with indigenous roots, modern-democratic feeling, and transnational potential has been an elite, not a subaltern project in Latin America for over two hundred years. This subject is a product of colonialism, and it could be argued that it was crafted … More The last juicy footnote
Not footnoted.
16/06/2020
This paragraph: Whether “border” identities are necessarily radical ones is another pertinent question here. Though Anzaldúa’s book is based on the notion of radicalizing experience, it does not address the failure of experience to provide radical consciousness. For example, when Anzaldúa asserts a type of natural bond between the gay and the mestiza, she denies the existence … More Not footnoted.
More juicy footnotes — being excised, this is too complicated and has to be for another paper
16/06/2020
These questions–raised by Medina, on whether you really can just take from a culture what you want and leave the rest, and by me [following others], on the distance between giving voice to the subaltern subject [that may be you, although the subaltern cannot speak] and creating a new, liberated subject–lead back to issues of … More More juicy footnotes — being excised, this is too complicated and has to be for another paper
Excised from footnotes
15/06/2020
Every footnote could become part of a new paper, and perhaps should. I cut from one footnote: Scholars like Peter Wade note that mestizaje as ideology has worked as a uniting force in some communities, but Bolivia is now a plurinational state and Ecuador’s most recent constitution gives indigenous peoples their own cultural rights. There … More Excised from footnotes
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