The “state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death,” as Gilmore defines racism, has often intensified alongside the institutionalization of past social movements. I would like to get to the bottom of this. Axé.
There are large screen televisions everywhere and they report incessantly on the mass shooting of the day. I am reminded of the constant war reporting in 1984. By electronic mail on the home front, we are warned daily about a black man with an automatic pistol who has attempted an armed robbery at the edge … More The news in Oceania
The student said the school mascot was wimpy. “It is not a local symbol, and it is not even an animal, it is just a piece of fruit. What can a piece of fruit intimidate? Nothing.” The university spends money on such things, he went on, “but not on education.” The new sculpture in the … More Vignette
Vallejo read Baudelaire more assiduously than we even realize, and did this before getting to Paris although he refers to him most obviously there. “Anywhere out of the world” Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit. Celui-ci voudrait souffrir en face du poêle, et celui-là croit … More Paris Spleen 48
Et une semaine de bonté, peut-être. Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté. Axé.
¡Cima de la delicia! Todo en el aire es pájaro. Se cierne lo inmediato Resuelto en lejanía. ¡Hueste de esbeltas fuerzas! ¡Qué alacridad de mozo En el espacio airoso, Henchido de presencia! El mundo tiene cándida Profundidad de espejo. Las más claras distancias Sueñan lo verdadero. ¡Dulzura de los años Irreparables! ¡Bodas Tardías con la … More Primaveral
I am plagiarizing this post from the Facebook page of a colleague, and hope that is all right. Look: Correspondences: Adorno on Benjamin: “Despite extreme individuation […] Benjamin seems empirically hardly to have been a person at all, rather an arena of movement in which content forced its way, through him, into language.” Jim Siegel … More On subjectivity, language and the body
From my dialogues elsewhere. Person A, quoting Pessoa: Whether we write or speak or do but look Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will … More Vallejo Lorca Spicer Stein Pessoa Drummond
I will get hold of it. Axé.
Roland Barthes in Image–Music–Text, here. I was reminded of it because of a piece on Stuart Hall by Homi Bhabha in Critical Inquiry, and I miss reading Critical Inquiry and some other things. The grain is the voice in the body as it sings, and this is one more road leading to or from Vallejo. Bhabha … More “The ‘grain’ is the voice in the body as it sings”
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