As we know, the things I dislike about academic advice is that it always involves going faster and faster, to do more and more. Do this for 15 minutes! Then go on to do another thing for 15 minutes! Switch ever faster from one task to the next! Never polish anything to completion, just call … More Almost the last post on academic advice
Poniatowska on the earthquake, and more Marta Lamas García Manríquez on Mexican cultural institutions Karen Villeda César Aira (the literary conference novella is short enough) Bolaño, short things at least Alaíde Foppa And for research, The Counter-Revolution of 1776, this is absolutely epoch-making. …and I’d love to have Sergio Chejfec, and read more of him, … More Books and authors I want to remember to teach
I think I am over Reeducation. At least very close. I like my name Coldhearted Scientist but wonder whether I should get a new one for this phase. Axé.
The Fantasy Economy. The post-liberal university does more than redefine education as a private, rather than a public good (Newfield). It is a partisan good, beneficial only to some people. On the Reproduction of Capitalism. This is the Althusser book containing the famous essay about ISAs. One could read the whole thing. New Yorker article … More Things to read
I don’t have time to write the post now but I was thinking earlier about Reeducation. I understood from my mother I should marry for food, and accept abuse in exchange for food. I did not do that but I realized today I can be made to accept that kind of relationship with work, and … More New Planctus
I’ve always liked the title of this piece – it’s worthy of Bataille – and I like Sarmiento’s writing, and enjoy his ravings. … More Exceso de vida, instinto de muerte
Mejía Baca published this in 1966. Antenor Orrego died in 1960. I still have my Vallejo project to do. I am not one of those who believes Vallejo was arguing as an Inca or anything like that, but there were all of these americanist projects at the time he was writing and Vallejo is in … More Orrego: Hacia un humanismo americano
These were very old notes too, that I kept. Let’s see what is in them. This Burns I was taking notes on must have been E. Bradford Burns. Brazil became independent because it had become a kingdom. Dom João feared it would ask for independence and told Dom Pedro to declare it. That way, it … More Burns on Brazilian Modernism
España postimperial is available for free in PDF on the author’s website. It is worth reading. Axé.
There was a New Yorker article from 2021 on Said and Aijaz Ahmad I ripped a page out of, and here it is. It’s page 86. I remember reading the Ahmad critiques of many things and liking it. The New Yorker writer reminds us that Said was not aware of Asian, African, or Latin American … More Said
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