Self-limitation“Heroic” self-sacrifice–one of my self-limiting habits is staying up too late, so as to feel exhausted–You are too much / too challenging / we do not love you / we wanted a different kind of child / find a way to diminish yourself or we will put you out on the street“You don’t know yourself, … More Where’s the trauma?

“I could roll out a sad old list of ‘things that can help’. Absorb yourself in a really engrossing hobby. Go out with your friends. Switch off. Try to sleep better and longer. But that doesn’t help much in the toils of the big forces in play, which is why so many people became so … More My CUU article

I am shedding old paper issues of Critical Inquiry that contain articles from which I could surely learn. Benedict Anderson talks about nationalism as being born from exile. In the colonies there are non-English, English-identifying people and non-Spanish Spaniards. And “home” is always mediated, and remember, empires were polyglottal; nations were supposed to resolve hybridity. … More On nationalism, and on paper journals

Un matrimonio como muchos actually takes a couple from Havana to New Orleans to New York.And off topic but on work, integrity is the keyword for Murcia.

The friendly town of extroverts The man with the Treme coffee house T shirt, and the call from Joe: I am from down South The deli on Bleeker Street, the chess players MoMA. Union Square. Film Forum. More of the Village. Strolling. Axé.

What was diabolical about that aspect of Reeducation was how closely it replicated my first education. I have said this before, but I see it so clearly now. There are deep common elements, authoritarianism, narcissism, and a faulty logic that I think is some kind of fash psyop, really. I remember puzzling over these contradictions … More Diabolical

Axé.

So, in the Spanish original: i) There is a blank page on 38. ii) The note you wrote under Poems Separated… is not there in the Spanish. iii) (1938-1939) is missing in the Indice in [Cartas]. In the English translation: i) In actual Letter VII, there are no brackets around VII. ii) Also, the title page for … More Manuscript revision

Austin says I work too hard. I’m not commenting on this, just noting it. Axé.

Salaita, on another topic: “I used to think that the failure to let go was an emotional condition, some type of compulsion or maybe a form of nostalgia, but I’ve come to understand that it’s a starkly intellectual choice, one I make every day in conjunction with millions of sisters and brothers around the world, … More It’s a political choice