Joseba Gabilondo
12/10/2025
España postimperial is available for free in PDF on the author’s website. It is worth reading. Axé.
Category: Race book
Said
12/10/2025
There was a New Yorker article from 2021 on Said and Aijaz Ahmad I ripped a page out of, and here it is. It’s page 86. I remember reading the Ahmad critiques of many things and liking it. The New Yorker writer reminds us that Said was not aware of Asian, African, or Latin American … More Said
More Mbembe
24/07/2025
I’m right: race is at the center (of the colonial drama). Of course one knows this but my questions all started out with these novels being taught as examples of literary movements, the issues they raise not addressed at all, and with the fact that I assumed, from my education, that racism was something we’d … More More Mbembe
Mbembe on vision (and more)
23/07/2025
You see, I am right. Discerning race is something you must do to maintain the colonial gaze. It is really quite simple. Page 111:For the Black Man to be seen and for him to be identified as such, a veil must have already been placed over his face, making it a face “bereft of all … More Mbembe on vision (and more)
Mbembe on Foucault
22/07/2025
Foucault, dealing with racism and its inscription in the mechanisms of the state and power, noted in this regard that “the modern State can scarcely function without becoming involved with racism at some point, within certain limits and subject to certain conditions.” Race or racism, “in a normalizing society,” he noted, “is the precondition that … More Mbembe on Foucault
Reading Mbembe
20/07/2025
The transnationalization of the Black condition was a constitutive moment for modernity, with the Atlantic serving as its incubator. After Independence, a class of Creole Whites asserted and consolidated their influence. Oldquestions of heterogeneity, difference, and liberty were once again posed, with new elites using the ideology of mestizaje to deny and disqualify the racial … More Reading Mbembe
Books destroyed in a small flood
28/04/2025
Orwell, George, Animal Farm. I wanted to reread this, although it is very depressing. Perhaps I didn’t like the format of this edition, the pages were quite narrow. But mostly I cannot reread this because I cannot handle animal stories, they are always too sad. Granados, Pedro, Inkarrí. All right, I had bought this to … More Books destroyed in a small flood
The Machiavellian Moment
25/12/2024
I must read this book and the university even has it, in paper and e-versions. Among other things, it will explain more about the contradictory nature of all these post-imperial nation-states. Axé.
Things too tattered to keep. Maroon discourse
19/11/2024
But so good. I have had some wonderful times in academia, actually. Actually, I have to keep this Kubayanda manuscript because I don’t think he ever published it, and it’s important. Axé.
España postimperial
17/11/2024
Imperio restaurativo is the ideology the elites of the Spanish state articulate to resolve the crises they generate. It proposes that the state as an institution is the solution to these crises, because it can restore us to a former condition – an imperial one. So we promote a political fantasy of constant and open … More España postimperial
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