I am not sure where to put this but it was on paper / in a dream and it seemed important at the time I wrote it because I could at least think about it clearly. It isn’t new at all. It said: Vallejo is hard to read because there is no centered subject to … More My old dissertation/book
This was part II of the first organizing workshop, and it was on positive messaging. [Avoid getting caught in manipulative tactics because you are trying to understand (and also trying to create bridges, get along).] Get a good marketing firm, they said, and know what messages you want to put out. Create a site like … More Old notes on another topic
…I’ll get into really good shape and have a camera. Things I know I don’t own are a tent and a mat. Things I now realize I should own are a hat and more of the right kinds of hiking pants and shirts. And bento boxes. And poles. I am not going to acquire all … More La montagne
Situate F da S in CRS and decolonialidad (and other currents). Useful: scene of engulfment / transcendental poesis – explains creation of L.A. subject but also – more interestingly – repetition of EVOKE AND ELIDE [does this have other contributing factors?] Problems: blaming the enlightenment, vague decoloniality as solution. Advantages: global problem, global analysis, with … More Free write for that next version
1/ Lott: hairsplitting accounting for differences is not interesting if these differences are not politically charged. Hollinger: racial mixture will fix racism! He replicates Myrdal’s liberalism: US is democratic but flawed, can be fixed, have progress. Guimarães: racial democracy is an incomplete project. Me: postethnic projects substitute normative mestizaje for the earlier normative whiteness. Hollinger … More More from that notebook
I am going to go through a long, very old, hand written notebook, take a few notes here from it, and then recycle it. One must rid oneself of things if one is to think. 1/ Republic should mean equality, but modernity is exclusionist: this is a problem. 2/ An article worth reading, on manners … More For this article
Meeting What is his agenda? What did we say about ourselves in our self-study (can we see our self-study)? Password for that organization [Almamater1!] Abstract — things one cannot say Is everything the fault of modernity, and if so, is it specifically the fault of Descartes? What are the exact problems, regarding this issue, with … More The next meeting, and abstract
Sufficient for 5 to 7 pounds of beef: 1/3 cup soy sauce, 1/3 cup rice wine or Mirim (can be found in Korean groceries, usually in the same aisle as vinegar and soy sauce), 1/3 cup honey, maple syrup or sweetener of choice (I use 1/4 cup turbinado sugar), one medium onion, a large handful … More Marinade for Korean steak
“In my own work I have argued that, rather than marking a rejection (as the hegemonic writers of the nation advocated) or the denial (as their critics insist) of race (i.e. racial difference), miscegenation institutes a mode of racial subjection predicated upon the necessary obliteration of the racial subaltern subject.” (ca. 2005) That sentence is … More Ferreira da Silva
These are two different things and they don’t go together. That is important to note. I was going to write a blog post on that, as applied to the university. 1/ Where are we now? My university is one of the most neoliberalized (I think) although it mixes that with a certain homespun quality. We … More Republican and economic modernity
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