These notes are or could be key for this paper but I do not have time to fully understand them, since I must finish it now. Mignolo 66: La idea de “América fue parte del “occidentalismo” y, más tarde, la idea de “América Latina” se volvió problemática cuando América del sur y el Caribe fueron … More A contradiction, because of time; I am rushed indeed
Today I was asked whether I knew of a university police officer who might take certain crimes against (usually) women seriously, so I went into the file on my former stalker to retrieve the name. In this process I glanced over part of the file, and saw things I had forgotten. For instance, my stalker … More C’est intéressant
That was a sentence the younger professors in my graduate program reiterated quite often, as a pedagogical remark. They had apparently thought they were “the next Foucault” and discovered this was not the case, and had had a difficult adjustment to a more modest reality. Their point was that we should not imagine we were … More “I realized I was not the next Foucault”
Mignolo 111: “En el continente americano, la raza se convirtió en un motivo endémico de la conciencia del Nuevo Mundo, y por eso las razas se ‘sienten’ en América como se ‘sienten’ las clases en Europa.” He is discussing Lewis Gordon, Existentia Africana, another book I should read. Also: Omi and Winant. Formation theory is … More For my book, and perhaps some of my current papers
♦ You may add further authors associated with the literary “boom” of the 1960s, but you may not allege that all the writers of this group, or all Latin American writers, are “magical realists.” ♦ If you choose to include José Vasconcelos, you must also add Fernando Ortiz and Gilberto Freyre. You may not cite … More Rules for the M.A. examination, and for the area examination for the Ph.D., that I have actually had instituted in writing
There is an article by Quijano and Wallerstein, Americanity as a concept; or the Americas in the modern world system: “La americanidad y la colonialidad estuvieron íntimamente ligadas desde un principio. La singularidad de América reside en los diversos borramientos que acompañaron la expansión colonial europea: el imaginario territorial indígena, y mucho más.” (Mignolo 2005: … More What are research and writing, and what is productivity?
Jonathan may not have one weird trick for being a successful academic but I do: make very limited plans for what you can say in any conference presentation. In order to be sure to get into the MLA and LASA, I used to write these paper proposals which were really book proposals. Then they were … More Tight
II “Among the most noteworthy characteristics of human beings,” says Lotze, “belongs… next to so much self-seeking in individuals, the general absence of envy of each present in relation to the future.” This reflection shows us that the picture of happiness which we harbor is steeped through and through in the time which the course … More Afsnit to (Benjamin)
Six-hand, seven-hand, eight-hand bunch! I have harvested bananas from my trees this afternoon, Cuban bananas in proliferation, in six-hand, seven-hand, and eight-hand bunches. This is literally true. Figuratively now, come mister tally-man, tally me banana. We have to reform our syllabi at this late date due to late directives from the dean, and I will … More Come, mister tally-man, tally me banana
But slowly I realized what the academy really is–v. what it claims to be such that I had mistakenly thought it was a less racist and sexist career path: a neoliberal corporation looking for the most docile workers (i.e. not ‘abrasive’, selfishly careerist, invested in benefiting from structural inequality and reproducing it–often unconsciously, for reasons … More Why I am not a liberal, reason #99
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