T.S. Eliot and the Birth of the Modern Poet
18/12/2015
With Christopher Ricks. This is really worth listening to. Axé.
Reading Vallejo Against the Grain of Identity
16/12/2015
I like my abstract better than anything longer I have written on this matter. Taking as its point of departure not only the poetic subject in Vallejo as primordially fractured but the intimations in his prose works that like his contemporary J. L. Borges (“La nadería de la personalidad,” 1925) he eschewed the idea of … More Reading Vallejo Against the Grain of Identity
T-frère
08/12/2015
Here is our youngest brother, just after defending his dissertation today. Axé.
Wendy Brown
05/12/2015
The supreme triumph of corporate power in the world requires that liberal democracy be undermined. This means that political autonomy is jettisoned. Formal rights, private property and voting are retained, but civil liberties are re-cast as useful only for the enjoyment of private autonomy. Social problems are de-politicized and converted into therapeutic, individualistic solutions (mostly … More Wendy Brown
That Mediterranean schedule
04/12/2015
I rarely get to do it but today I was up at six, got ready and worked until one-thirty, went to lunch until five-thirty, went home and rested, and now I am going back to the office, where I plan to stay until midnight. This will have been a total of about ten hours of … More That Mediterranean schedule
Chico Buarque
29/11/2015
This is in cinemas in Brazil now, and although I will be seeing Caetano Veloso live (again) in Austin I would be more thrilled to see this film on the big screen. Axé.
Emmanuel Lubeski
29/11/2015
Some reading and some more. Axé.
Sabían que estaban atacando a los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa
27/11/2015
Look at this interactive exercise. Axé.
C’est moi
24/11/2015
I keep not posting, so I am sending myself instead. This was on Maple Street in New Orleans, 20 November 2015. Axé.
Slavoj Žižek
17/11/2015
Global capitalism has no problem in accommodating itself to a plurality of local religions, cultures and traditions. So the irony of anti-Eurocentrism is that, on behalf of anti-colonialism, one criticizes the West at the very historical moment when global capitalism no longer needs Western cultural values in order to smoothly function. In short, one tends … More Slavoj Žižek
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