Visit Art Attack. Go swimming. Visit museums. See friends. Look for Scandinavian things. Axé.

In the last 24 hours: 1/ The one who put a symposium together all with hard to get contacts that I had gotten for him, and at it, did not mention this. Thanked the Provost for the funding, but not me for putting him in touch with the speakers. 2/ The one who took all … More Sexism among friends

Central do Brasil O auto da compadecida Que horas ela volta Bacurau Bye Bye Brasil (2 votes) Things by Alberto Cavalcanti (ancient film, I have never seen his work, interesting, this is who my conservative friend recommends) Discussion: https://journals.openedition.org/cinelatino/597 Dizem: Tem 2 curtas que eu gosto: O Nóia Um dia no limite cujo roteiro é … More Brazilian film list

This is important to read. In my words: faux-anarchical anti-formations like hybridity, dissolution, and so on are part of the language of neoliberalism, not of something “subversive.” This was always my view, but it was not a permitted view when I was in formation myself, and not being allowed to say it was a large … More Anna Kornbluh

Notes toward my next piece of public writing (this was the last). People think Spanish in Mexico is a separate and inferior language and that “Castilian” is a rarefied, literary thing. Really, what we call “Spanish” is all Castilian, and it can be spoken in different dialects and speech registers, like English. It became “Spanish” … More On “Castilian”

I have to teach the modern Peninsular survey and I am redesigning it entirely. This isn’t exactly what I am doing now but I’d like to do it again, keep working on this. One could start with Unamuno, Niebla. I am starting with the vanguardia: the idea of the new, and the Peter Bürger idea … More My Bolshevik megaclass

Who is this person and what have they written? This is their syllabus, and I want to take the course. Axé.

Read all about it, in this interview and this discussion. Points for my papers: Da Silva: postcolonialism and decoloniality reify Europe. This is my problem with her. Magical realism: what the postcolonialists see in it (the representation of views of colonizer and colonized at once, as though there were only two elements) fits Latin America … More The Radical Spanish Empire: Petitions and the Creation of the New World

On Haiti, important. Axé.

Go to campus and deal with mail. Fill out a W-9 form for AP. Reserve a rental car. See about acupuncture. See if I have overpaid Best Buy. AND: It appears I could fly one way to Reno on American, early enough in the morning and stopping only once. I would then not have to … More I will