If, when I was having all these problems with Vallejo in the 1990s and even the early 2000s, I had gotten in touch with the Peruvians, they would have taken care of it all. I should also have gotten in touch in the late 1980s, when I had different problems. But especially when I had … More The Internet
He is an archipelago. Trilce is filled with, even structured by fragments of the myth of Inkarrí. From Los heraldos negros we know that a huaco is …el pichón de cóndor desplumado por latino arcabuz but also [u]n fermento de Sol; ¡levadura de sombra y corazón! The poetic subject is a solar being, latent but … More Additional gossip on César Vallejo
When I return from Peru I will set up course books on the web for spring, contact the high schools, and start building my course websites. I will call the handyman. I will be in a position to write every day, and do things like yoga. ∅ On authority and authoritarianism My colleagues refuse to … More Quand je reviendrai
On standing up for oneself, I did it seriously a few days ago and it has made a difference, or meant a shift. Key words from meditation are disturbing and set adrift. There are many perceptions to record and many things to say, but my next long meditation will be on Maringouin, our strange lives … More Quelque chose a changé
It is time to actually read Anti-Oedipus and the discussions of it from those days, in places like this. Here is my Vallejo problem: my issue is psychic invasion, and I have a visceral reaction to the idea of subject shattering. “Then that is a non-liberatory, but binding, shattering,” someone said. What is fractured subjectivity … More Sur Deleuze, et sur le sujet
…torture, is what is self-imposed, that is to say, is what I have a choice not to do, now. I have great difficulty distinguishing between depression … laziness … incompetence … refusal to use good strategies … self sabotage that is bad … and activities that may look like self sabotage but are not, because … More The self-imposed… And the chance discovery
From the dirty old mess hall, you march to the brick wall Too weary to talk and too tired to sing And it’s all afternoon you remember your home town All inside the walls, the walls of Red Wing –B. Dylan Those are often my sentiments and the feeling of incarceration and longing for home … More On shame and defeat
“The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology–between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality–is fully investigated as a source of both national tension and competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice.” This is interesting. Meanwhile, in addition to everything else, I must remember to read online homework. I am very busy and I … More Sur Cuba (et la nuit)
Just when I thought I would never be able to work on this topic without being so engulfed in various aspects of panic and claustrophobia that I would always be forced two steps back for each one forward, the panic stopped. It used to be that I would be panicked already, and the panic would … More Très nouveau
I am a late discoverer of Cuéntame como pasó and watching it, I realize I am Spanish. I, too, remember the things this program remembers, and feel interpellated by the “nosotros” in the theme song. The show speaks to everyone, and is light as it must be, for television. The episode here embedded is heavy, … More Cuéntame como pasó
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