Reading whole house, not Placidus. Sun / Mercury 8H in Capricorn: likes depth and extremes and doesn’t do surface level very well. Not afraid to explore the taboo. Very practical way of speaking and likely good with business and money. Ascendant in Gemini: comes across as talkative and intelligent, especially that your ascendant is at … More Horoscope 2023
I want/need this book but of course I cannot afford it. Well I mean, I could buy it, I spent $100 on clothes and I could have bought this instead. But $110 for a book is a lot. It is $40 to have it electronically, without page numbers. I will ILL it although I really … More Poetics of Race
This is my ACLA seminar. I should start working on it by reading the Shohat and Stam book. Axé.
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
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
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. Martí confronted a capitalist modernity that disarticulated the institutions that theretofore had … More Literature and the state: Julio Ramos, Desencuentros de la modernidad
For that paper, I can use the What is a scholar series. I am so cooking. Axé.
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: Race is constitutive of modernity and the modern subject; F d S works at the symbolic level so … More Intentions for the new year
…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
… from the review essay, due to lack of space, but that I would like to use or think about somewhere else. Axé. Cut: Almost 150 years later circumstances are different, but broader structures and the tools used to discern and reproduce them have not changed. Cut: See the work on Benedict Anderson and national … More Thoughts and sentences cut
