Moro: planned the translation and translated two lines. Learned about Aldo Pellegrini. Tried to contact Marco Rivera for a joint reading at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. I could invite him to NOPF, and Guillermo Parra. I must get in touch with Jesús. And I should write the Moro article. LASA 2026: worked … More What I did today
Now I will read some articles from Social Discourse, a journal issue I have been carrying around and not reading since 1989. It was my contention that writers of the teens and twenties were saying interesting things about subjectivity way before Foucault and others got into it, and we know this since the later 20th … More Sobre el sujeto…toward Moro and LASA
“El gran Marcelo Bielsa dejó explicado que no hay nada peor que el éxito de un mal ejemplo: no hay problema si un buen proceso fracasa, porque es algo habitual; el problema aparece cuando un proceso mal planteado es exitoso y lanza el mensaje de que un atajo puede llevarte a un buen lugar. Porque … More Paraguayan Radio
The Enchantress of Florence. The mob went after Machiavelli when he lost power “These people were good people, thought il Machia, these few people of his own, but in general the people of Florence were traitors. It was the people who had betrayed the republic and invited the Medici back. The people whom he had … More The enchantress of Florence
Feeling coerced, rushed. Disbelieved, mistrusted. Many mundane demands, many destructive people to satisfy. Many with needs greater than my own, many people hurt by luminosity. I must self-mutilate to fit in or I will not be safe. Joy and optimism are crushed and called insane or hurtful here. I feel Irritation, boredom, anger, fear, regret, … More My emotions around work
That was a title of an old student paper, the first page of one copy of which I came across while cleaning the office files. It’s intriguing. They said that Mignolo was ultimately reinscribing a Western view of things, although he intends otherwise. I forget which Mignolo text I had assigned, but the title is … More Mignolo, el orientalista
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.
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