Is it? I like this old article on exceptionalism by Lund. “The most implacable Latin American appropriation of Euro- centrism is a center/periphery discourse known as civilization and barbarism (civilización y barbarie).” Axé.
I Cortázar and “Viaje a la semilla” would be other stories to read; I read these in this course, which shows that it was avant-garde when I took it. I could make this iteration cohesive around a theme: stories of love and death. That would fit, if loosely, for almost all the writers I am … More That introduction to literature
These notes are or could be key for this paper but I do not have time to fully understand them, since I must finish it now. Mignolo 66: La idea de “América fue parte del “occidentalismo” y, más tarde, la idea de “América Latina” se volvió problemática cuando América del sur y el Caribe fueron … More A contradiction, because of time; I am rushed indeed
That was a sentence the younger professors in my graduate program reiterated quite often, as a pedagogical remark. They had apparently thought they were “the next Foucault” and discovered this was not the case, and had had a difficult adjustment to a more modest reality. Their point was that we should not imagine we were … More “I realized I was not the next Foucault”
Here is Alan Liu’s course in which I am interested more for the platform and organization of materials than for its course content. That is interesting as well, but then so are all courses. I like the plaform. I have a course on Piazza, which I like better than Moodle, but I like this (even) better. It … More Course platforms
This was from the Guadalajara LASA, in 1997. I am wondering now whether cultural exceptionalism is a “criollo symptom” — of the attempt to grapple with the fact of being in what Mignolo (and others) call “coloniality” when their imperative is to join the modernity (again Mignolo) from which they are barred by definition. This … More Síntomas criollos
“I will not speak to him/her or be on a committee with him/her because he/she once disagreed with disobeyed me!” Is this a Peninsular thing, or just a franquista thing, or what? Axé.
There was Spinoza, contra Descartes and perhaps contra Kant. Explain/explore the possibility of not having the mind/body split. There was the counter-Enlightenment but what about critiques of Enlightenment that are not dully postmodern? Modernity carries values like authenticity, and believes in foundations, whereas the postmodern does not. This is why I am far more modernist … More Other sides of modernity
This semester I will convert myself from a person attracted to some of the sentences in this essay, into a person who understands it. I It is well-known that an automaton once existed, which was so constructed that it could counter any move of a chess-player with a counter-move, and thereby assure itself of victory … More On the concept of history
The people raised in Christianity and to some extent the other religions of that Book have a psychology to which I do not relate. I do not understand it but it involves in part an exaggerated respect for, or or on the other hand scorn of authorities, instructions, and rules. This, I suppose, is patriarchal. … More Notes on the “Western” subject
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