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.
Category: Race book
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
Nachitoches 2025
05/05/2024
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.
Belle Créole
30/04/2024
That is a trope, too. Axé.
My BRASA paper
10/04/2024
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
Belle Créole
29/03/2024
That is a trope, too, and it has been discussed/critiqued. Axé.
Notes from a 2010 Conference
11/03/2024
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.
John D. French
09/03/2024
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
Nancy K. Miller’s “Changing the Subject,” Vallejo, and the (il)legibility of Cecilia Valdés
06/03/2024
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
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