Eva Thompson compares Polish, Ukrainian and Russian literature. Book: Imperial Knowledge: Russian literature and Colonialism. Also, Troubadour Imperium: Pushkin to Solshenitsyn. Axel Gasquet – race and orientalism José Alvares Junos – Mater dolorosa, la idea de España en el XIX Routledge guide or anthology to the Iberian world in the colonial period – a view … More Things we were talking about in Lviv
Foucault, dealing with racism and its inscription in the mechanisms of the state and power, noted in this regard that “the modern State can scarcely function without becoming involved with racism at some point, within certain limits and subject to certain conditions.” Race or racism, “in a normalizing society,” he noted, “is the precondition that … More Mbembe on Foucault
The transnationalization of the Black condition was a constitutive moment for modernity, with the Atlantic serving as its incubator. After Independence, a class of Creole Whites asserted and consolidated their influence. Oldquestions of heterogeneity, difference, and liberty were once again posed, with new elites using the ideology of mestizaje to deny and disqualify the racial … More Reading Mbembe
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
Orwell, George, Animal Farm. I wanted to reread this, although it is very depressing. Perhaps I didn’t like the format of this edition, the pages were quite narrow. But mostly I cannot reread this because I cannot handle animal stories, they are always too sad. Granados, Pedro, Inkarrí. All right, I had bought this to … More Books destroyed in a small flood
I want this book but it is very expensive. Also, I never doubted Trilce was a dadaist book. Anyway, the author is doing other interesting work as well. Apparently Vallejo’s grandmothers weren’t full-blooded Chimú, they were mestizas, and Larrea might not have been accurate on those gallego priests he allegedly had as grandfathers, either. Axé.
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
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.
But so good. I have had some wonderful times in academia, actually. The papers of my 1989 or 1990 LASA panel in Miami, on race, with Josaphat Kubayanda, Howard Winant, Peter Wade. The most interesting to me now is Kubayanda’s work on maroon discourse. I guess I am keeping the Kubayanda, I am not sure … More Things too tattered to keep. Maroon discourse
