Sunday, April 10: Edited 49 words. My total is now 722. I put in a footnote on Mignolo and I see I will have to deal with him somewhat seriously. 30 minutesMonday, April 11: Edited 47 words. My total is now 748. I think what I wrote today was original philosophy and that I was … More Another log
Zelenskyy and Palestine: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-zelensky-ukrainian-jewish-role-dispossession Russian disinformation and The Nation (among many others): https://www.boundary2.org/2019/11/alexander-reid-ross-fooling-the-nation-extremism-and-the-pro-russia-disinformation-ecosystem/ Kremlin influence in the Canadian Green Party platform: https://web.archive.org/web/20201130232237/https://www.teamdimitri.ca/team_dimitri_releases_foreign_policy_platform Selective anti-imperialism: https://danhanrahan-45285.medium.com/understanding-the-selectively-anti-imperialist-or-selectively-imperialist-left-f8ef1c072ed0 Axé.
I really need to do one thing a day, not break the chain except maybe 1 day a week. Monday 3/28: 30 minutes. Write a sentence, write a note. Came back a little later and did a little more. I am up to 721 words, of which 484 have been edited. Something I can do … More Another writing log.
Friday 5-7: Lisa Cacho discovery and informal writing, that will go to the review essay and also the book proposal. More is needed but this was a kind of breakthrough. Also to note: what Richard did was humiliating. And I explained it to him and he was defensive and egocentric, and said he did not … More Research/writing log this week
Social Death. It is in our library! JV6456 .C33 2012 There is a chapter in it, “The violence of value,” on the concept of unpayable debt. REM is another of the books that raises the idea of race and drops it. A form of evoke-and-elide is described at the link above: “Yet, the U.S., to … More Lisa Marie Cacho
Denise da Silva’s work, as her commentator points out, is rough going because it is “dense” and also reference-laden. Who is so familiar with Kant et al, and Hartman et al, etc.? And da Silva is not just explaining them, she is doing something with them, so it is hard not to feel one is … More The essay — really bad first draft
GGM’s Nobel Prize lecture. One of the things it says its that Lat Am needs a literature as fabulous as its history. It also says the solitude of 100 años is Europe’s lack of solidarity and comprehension. It is an odd discourse overall. Gerald Martin: MR is an ideological strategem to collapse many kinds of … More Magical realism and things
Goodnight Moon is part of them. This article is very interesting. Axé.
This is one of the things to read. Axé.
With P, over that translation With N, over that organization With O, over the other organization Were there more? Axé.
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