El otro elusivo: la teoría racial de Denise Ferreira da Silva Abstracto original This paper will discuss some implications of Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work for the analysis of discourses of mestizaje and exceptionalism in modern Latin American literature, focusing on her concepts of transcendental poesis and the scene of engulfment in Toward a global … More How did I say it then
Here is the poster for my cousin Alexei Aizenman’s centenary exhibit at the Pushkin House-Museum on Arbat, in Moscow. You should really go if you are in town. In other news Gukira is a good blogger with an interesting post on Freire; I am told he is also the author of the best piece on … More Pushkin House-Musuem 23.VIII-16.IX
I have started paying $30/year for this site, to get the ads off it, and I am going to clean it up. I will be one of the last bloggers. I have discovered this poet, Silvia Goldman, who turns out to be the author of this piece I read some time ago and liked, as … More Novedades
They will next read translation manuscripts in the summer of 2019. Axé.
Giroux: “The great philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was one of the first Marxist theoreticians who understood that almost every act of politics is a pedagogical practice, wrote a brilliant essay in 1916 on why he hates the indifferent. What he understood was that indifference, my term, was not an action that existed in a void … More Gramsci
The blurb: Rejecting the view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Denise Ferreira da Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Silva proposes that the notion of racial difference governs the global power configuration because … More This book
The rhetorical and narrative move I have been referring to, to myself, as “evoke and elide” all this time, is also, or is parallel to another which is “assimilate and erase.” Axé.
I can look at Piedra for my text. (My favorite article ever is this one.) And if I have trouble writing, I can consider using Scrivener. Axé.
I will start studying Russian at breakfast instead of looking at Facebook, I think. And Filipino food sounds great. There is a good article about race and representation in that region said to be Acadian. Chomsky has an article on the death of universities. On organizing, he says “Don’t be intimidated, don’t be frightened, and … More De bonnes choses
We will see this film! I don’t know whether to submit these poems to The Nation or to Two Lines. I am thinking Two Lines is a good place to send this author, although they want a longer set than what I was about to send off. There are other journals: Latin American Literature Today, … More World on a Wire
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