To begin again
10/01/2023
This is my ACLA seminar. I should start working on it by reading the Shohat and Stam book. Axé.
Programação São Paulo
04/01/2023
Friday or Saturday: Livraria Megafuna (ed. Copan) Any afternoon or night: Cineclubes. There are also Belas Artes and Reserva Cultural but I am not that attracted by their programming. I wish for Cine Bijou and Teatro Oficina. Oficinas culturais. There is a lot of theatre and other cool stuff. Livraria Tapera Tapera Pinacoteca and note, … More Programação São Paulo
Jacques Rancière
04/01/2023
1) “Es el explicador quien necesita del incapaz y no a la inversa”. 2) El principio de la explicación “es el principio del embrutecimiento.” 3) El saber no se “transmite”… es como la libertad… nadie se la da a uno; uno se la tiene que apropiar y al tomársela hacerla nueva; producir la libertad en … More Jacques Rancière
Literature and the state: Julio Ramos, Desencuentros de la modernidad
23/12/2022
That’s a now old and famous book, but I have some old notes of mine on a page of an old review whose author I don’t know. So we will write them here before I recycle this piece of paper, to stimulate thought. My notes were that this is then the beginning of that literature-nation-state … More Literature and the state: Julio Ramos, Desencuentros de la modernidad
What Is a Scholar? Language and the Entrepreneurial University
23/12/2022
For that paper, I can use the What is a scholar series. I am so cooking. Axé.
Intentions for the new year
23/12/2022
Amo escrever. To plan the March presentation I should perhaps think in terms of pages like a few disparate slides. I can write them separately, starting anywhere, and give each one bullet points, with quotations. Something like: We will see. But I love to do research and to write, and I love theory. I want … More Intentions for the new year
Haroldo de Campos: Da razão antropofágica
22/12/2022
…diálogo e diferença na cultura brasileira. It’s Haroldo de Campos and it was originally published in the Boletim Bibiliográfico, I think of Mario de Andrade vol. 44 n. 1/4 S. Paul, Jan.-Dez. 1983. 106-27. It is a classic article and I am recycling my photocopy, nostalgic though that is. I’m sure I can find it … More Haroldo de Campos: Da razão antropofágica
Thoughts and sentences cut
20/12/2022
… from the review essay, due to lack of space, but that I would like to use or think about somewhere else. Axé.
Materials for Russian, and more
17/12/2022
RussianPod on Facebook is one grammar/vocabulary/pronunciation method. Boston University has a great Russian poetry site for learning. I’ll start with Daniil Kharms. That’s Даниил Хармс, of course. And I learned about the Red Line Podcasts. Day 2. хуй мне, а не метро – slang. “What I got was dick, not metro.” Обморок – faint (n.) … More Materials for Russian, and more
Alexander Veniaminovich
17/12/2022
At first there was an apartment in the Polytechnic Museum, then they lived on Myasnitskaya (there is also a construction office), then they rented a house near the Kursk Way, in 1901 they bought their own house in Arkhangelsky Lane. Axé.
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