It is in the United States more than in Brazil that liberalism, or slavery, is a “misplaced idea.” Here the official national ideology was much more strongly liberal, and slavery was harder to buy one’s way out of. That is why the United States had to develop a much more hard-line form of racism in … More Cottrol
♦ Porque esta crisis estructural está acabando con las bases de una cultura material basada en el despilfarro del agua, de los alimentos, de los recursos naturales de todo tipo y en la producción masiva de desechos que la naturaleza no puede reciclar. ♦ One is complicit just by living here and may benefit personally … More On why just having one more reajuste will not cut it
I am moving this post up to work on the things in it. (The Espejo enterrado uses the Castro paradigm. One knows this but does not always remember it, so I have made this note.) I am rereading David Theo Goldberg’s 2002 book and it is my claim that with this tome, Balibar’s, Winant’s, and da … More David Theo Goldberg, and Lyx
If your conscience tells you one thing, and the Holy Father through the authority of the Magisterium has determined something else, then it is not your conscience against the hierarchy; there is actually, beneath what you think is your conscience, your real conscience which must, because you’re made by God, understand already, that you’re wrong. … More The Grand Inquisitor
I could do a series of interesting, mostly modernist paintings on this. One about being invaded, run over, chased across a field, cut down with a shovel (although in some dreams I make it across the border). A Cézanne, perhaps. Another about being in the Reeducation camp, perhaps by Klee (I would like to go … More On physical space
This is my last illumination for the night, from Wogglebug who has led us to a new consideration of verbal violence. From a certain point on (Reeducation, to be exact, which disallowed one from drawing a boundary around the violent world and putting it in its place, which is the best way to clear one’s … More On writing and verbal violence
So now, the water heater is also having difficulty. It never rains, but it pours. I have misplaced my ATM card somewhere in this house, and my driver’s license has disappeared — I am not sure where. I am nonetheless announcing an innovation: a moratorium on Reeducation posts. I reserve the right to revoke it … More A moratorium on “Reeducation” posts
Invisibility suggests a hidden dimension, sometimes unknowing or inadvertent but more than likely planned, or at least ordered, structurally arranged, deeply embedded. So, institutionally, it is not that race has been made ‘absent’ but that its presence has been rendered invisible and silenced (save to the sensitive eye and ear), purged of explicit terms of … More The sensitive eye and ear
I have misplaced my cellular telephone and a new one would cost money I do not have, so I have cancelled it. I am under contract to it so I still have to pay the bill until the contract is over, but I do not have a cellular telephone. It is wonderful. I would pay … More La libertad
Because they are terrified preachers: fire and brimstone, how bad the world is; because they are grand inquisitors. Because they are unrelenting torture victims; because they are lying in vats of burning oil, and stretching out their hands to pull us in. Because they will not be satisfied until we join them in death and … More I dislike professors…
