I still want my degrees in economics and law, for practical reasons, but I am now joining the view that the social sciences are superficial — and I am including certain branches of Linguistics in the social sciences. I would never be in English, French or German, since in Spanish or Arabic you get to … More On fields
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?
Yo tenía un hijo que también se llamaba Juan Juan como mi abuelo paterno que construía casas de madera para el verano lo vi jugar alrededor de una mañana fría frente a la iglesia del sur cerca al camino de hojalata por donde paseamos haciendo bulla con nuestros pies He golpeado los ataúdes hasta despertar … More Yo tenía un hijo
Mignolo 70: “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. . . .” This also uses the word singularity, so one could consider it in relation to the question of cultural exceptionalism. First, … More For current paper #1 and my book
Beaches in Florida and California are so expensive to get to and be at that I think of Mexico and Central America, at which point one might as well also consider beaches yet further south. Look at this one. Axé.
All I really want to do now is study Sarmiento. I had read Cien años de soledad in English when it came out, before I was literate in Spanish, but Facundo was the first Latin American book I read in Spanish and there is no better one, as it is completely wild. There is so … More Another trick for a successful year
Here is Alan Liu’s course in which I am interested more for the platform and organization of materials than for its course content. That is interesting as well, but then so are all courses. I like the plaform. I have a course on Piazza, which I like better than Moodle, but I like this (even) better. It … More Course platforms
She has a smart book on civilization and barbarism that I found out about from the Spanish Professor and am now using to teach Facundo. Here is a snippet from my simplifying notes for class: Con la Revolución Francesa se introduce la idea de que la barbarie se halla también en el interior del continente … More Maristella Svampa
This was from the Guadalajara LASA, in 1997. I am wondering now whether cultural exceptionalism is a “criollo symptom” — of the attempt to grapple with the fact of being in what Mignolo (and others) call “coloniality” when their imperative is to join the modernity (again Mignolo) from which they are barred by definition. This … More Síntomas criollos
“I will not speak to him/her or be on a committee with him/her because he/she once disagreed with disobeyed me!” Is this a Peninsular thing, or just a franquista thing, or what? Axé.
