I am sure people do not believe it but I really am pouring out las últimas gotas not just of Reeducation but of all related traumas. This blog is about to go straight-up academic and merge with the Seminario Permanente. Acabaremos but I do have one more comment on things people say about work: “Life … More On the fallacy of “life invading”
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
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
I cannot find the sketch I made for that course so I only know its (then) title. I will not order books now — one can always get books and I will create a reading list as I keep working on my project. I will give the class as an almost history class and it … More The latest version
…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
I do not yet fully understand this and do not have time now to figure it out but watch the situation with EOServe and Southern University. Axé.
En medio de esta decadencia aparente del carácter nacional, se descubren de cuando en cuando ciertas señales de antiguo espíritu; ni puede ser de otro modo: querer que una nación se quede con solas sus propias virtudes y se despoje de sus defectos propios para adquirir en su lugar las virtudes de las extrañas, es … More Carta de Ben-Beley a Nuño
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
I am looking for and at my old abstracts and unfinished and abandoned articles and chapters. I do not like to do this because of the circumstances under which I abandoned each one; I do not want to be reminded. Now, however, under a mandate not to succumb to recriminations, “why did you not,” and … More How (and how not) to work
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.
coldhearted scientist وداد 