I am here again, with this event. Trujillo seems beachy and bright as always, with flags snapping in the breeze, as on a ship. On the Jirón San Martín there are letter-writers for hire on the sidewalk, with manual typewriters and carbon paper. I want to take their picture. Peru is one of the countries … More Trujillo
If, when I was having all these problems with Vallejo in the 1990s and even the early 2000s, I had gotten in touch with the Peruvians, they would have taken care of it all. I should also have gotten in touch in the late 1980s, when I had different problems. But especially when I had … More The Internet
He is an archipelago. Trilce is filled with, even structured by fragments of the myth of Inkarrí. From Los heraldos negros we know that a huaco is …el pichón de cóndor desplumado por latino arcabuz but also [u]n fermento de Sol; ¡levadura de sombra y corazón! The poetic subject is a solar being, latent but … More Additional gossip on César Vallejo
When I return from Peru I will set up course books on the web for spring, contact the high schools, and start building my course websites. I will call the handyman. I will be in a position to write every day, and do things like yoga. ∅ On authority and authoritarianism My colleagues refuse to … More Quand je reviendrai
I am thinking of having a flamenco unit in one of my spring courses, and this is an interesting collection of lyrics. What do you recommend? Axé.
On standing up for oneself, I did it seriously a few days ago and it has made a difference, or meant a shift. Key words from meditation are disturbing and set adrift. There are many perceptions to record and many things to say, but my next long meditation will be on Maringouin, our strange lives … More Quelque chose a changé
It is time to actually read Anti-Oedipus and the discussions of it from those days, in places like this. Here is my Vallejo problem: my issue is psychic invasion, and I have a visceral reaction to the idea of subject shattering. “Then that is a non-liberatory, but binding, shattering,” someone said. What is fractured subjectivity … More Sur Deleuze, et sur le sujet
…torture, is what is self-imposed, that is to say, is what I have a choice not to do, now. I have great difficulty distinguishing between depression … laziness … incompetence … refusal to use good strategies … self sabotage that is bad … and activities that may look like self sabotage but are not, because … More The self-imposed… And the chance discovery
So it is the splitting I experience. Last week’s exercise on shame (and the shame I feel comes from this) made it perfectly clear that the problem is splitting. I always have done it to some minor extent. Graduate school cured me of most of it, and Reeducation brought it back in a much more … More Splitting
Someone pointed this out to me once; I was surprised because I tend to think I do not put enough pressure. The academic advisors say we are lazy and inefficient as well; we should be jumping around. Tú te pones mucha presión. I think my mother did this as well. It may be why she … More “Tú te pones mucha presión”
