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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.

You should really know this site. They have everything: a hijacked journal tracker, retractions by Nobel Prize winners, and much more. You also should know this article against the use of AI for writing, it is important and very intelligent. Axé.

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

Paraguayan Radio

11/11/2024

“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

09/11/2024

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

My emotions around work

02/11/2024

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

A strange interaction

01/11/2024

There was just something so unsettling about it, I assume maturity and good will as a rule and I am always surprised not to find it. One should be more suspicious, perhaps, but I don’t know. There’s been something deep about this interaction though, somehow related to my mother asking for so much effort and … More A strange interaction

Mignolo, el orientalista

28/10/2024

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