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.
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
I’ll talk about the work of Jessica Marie Johnson, documentation, print culture per the AAS workshop, and the possibility of archival work here. Axé.
That is a trope, too. Axé.
Years ago I was to write an article on Veloso and I could not finish it, partly because of what my work responsibilities were here and partly because of the emotions I have attached to that music (it was used to advertise Bahia as paradisiacal when I was there and miserable, and it agitates me). … More My BRASA paper
That is a trope, too, and it has been discussed/critiqued. Axé.
Yes, I am slow. But I’m getting rid of papers and looking at them. That means I am moving ahead. I’m even working on my vita. Axé.
His critique of Bourdieu and Wacquant in Nepantla (2003) is key, although his other article, where he defends Hanchard against their accusation that he has “imposed” a U.S. model on Brazilian scholars, is fierier and more fun. Here Bourdieu and Wacquant have again claimed that intellectual exchange from the U.S. to Brazil “flows in one … More John D. French
I have this as a journal article, in an issue I am recycling, but it’s available as part of Miller’s book Subject to Change, which can still be acquired. It’s a 1986 piece, from when I was worried about this question: was the decentering/death of the subject revolutionary if the subject to be killed, fragmented, … More Nancy K. Miller’s “Changing the Subject,” Vallejo, and the (il)legibility of Cecilia Valdés
The notes are good and I’ve been thinking about all of this far too intermittently for far too long. Some of them I don’t think I will write down because – I know them by heart, really. But Cecilia, the character, is ILLEGIBLE and the novel keeps telling you you have to read her, and … More Cecilia from ancient notes
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