A comment on Lund

Quelqu’un nous a dit: Lund’s thesis is interesting, but its has some flaws because it understands liberalism in a XX century way. The contradiction between capitalism vs. liberalism (popular sovereignty vs. capitalist expansion) is just too reductive. During all the XIX century there were debates about popular sovereign and the legitimacy of politics and violent … More A comment on Lund

Managing terror

I woke up yesterday happy but terror grew as the day went on. The terror: If I do not show I am curbing my research orientation by cheerfully engaging in extra service, I will be killed. I am in a state of sin by not being oriented toward lower and intermediate level teaching and if … More Managing terror

Voici

…my overarching structure and thread. While others talk about mestizaje and nation (and hybrid cultures) I am interested in race and the state. Looking at the same works through this [prism] gives other readings, readings that do not paper over violence and disjunction as much as do the more conciliatory mestizaje/nation theories. These never really … More Voici

That discerning eye

This article is turning into a discussion of several theorists, mostly not in literature, who say race is constitutive of modernity. If race is constitutive of modernity, there are definite limits to the liberal critique of racism, and hierarchies based on race may be made invisible but will not go away. If Latin America is … More That discerning eye

Freakish religion

Educated in Rome and New York, he is known for his semiorthodox views on the use of condoms, saying that married couples could possibly use them to prevent infection when one partner is H.I.V.-positive, although he has also defended Pope Benedict’s remark that condom use increases the risk of AIDS spreading. Axé.