Joseba Gabilondo
12/10/2025
España postimperial is available for free in PDF on the author’s website. It is worth reading. Axé.
Said
12/10/2025
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
Juan Fló: Acerca de unos borradores de Vallejo
20/09/2025
An article I photocopied before there were online databases, and now I don’t need the photocopy because it is available in PDF via Project Muse. It’s in Nuevo Texto Crítico VIII:16/17 (Julio 1995-Junio 1996). Axé.
Vanguardia y cosmopolitismo
12/09/2025
I’m taking a chance on this book remaining available. My copy, a Portuguese translation, was bought in São Paulo in 1985, and it is nostalgic for that reason. But it’s so yellowed and dog-eared, it looks like a corpse on my shelf, so it’s something I can shed. I remember Jorge Schwarz’ classes, and everything, … More Vanguardia y cosmopolitismo
Comment vivre
15/08/2025
Recently, I’ve had some days where I felt well here, bringing summer relaxation from Europe and keeping the bubble around me. Not all days, and right now I am not doing well. All of this is to say I shouldn’t prevent myself from feeling well, don’t need to transfer pain onto work, don’t need to … More Comment vivre
More Mbembe
24/07/2025
I’m right: race is at the center (of the colonial drama). Of course one knows this but my questions all started out with these novels being taught as examples of literary movements, the issues they raise not addressed at all, and with the fact that I assumed, from my education, that racism was something we’d … More More Mbembe
Mbembe on vision (and more)
23/07/2025
You see, I am right. Discerning race is something you must do to maintain the colonial gaze. It is really quite simple. Page 111:For the Black Man to be seen and for him to be identified as such, a veil must have already been placed over his face, making it a face “bereft of all … More Mbembe on vision (and more)
Things we were talking about in Lviv
22/07/2025
Eva Thompson compares Polish, Ukrainian and Russian literature. Book: Imperial Knowledge: Russian literature and Colonialism. Also, Troubadour Imperium: Pushkin to Solshenitsyn. Axel Gasquet – race and orientalism José Alvares Junos – Mater dolorosa, la idea de España en el XIX Routledge guide or anthology to the Iberian world in the colonial period – a view … More Things we were talking about in Lviv
Mbembe on Foucault
22/07/2025
Foucault, dealing with racism and its inscription in the mechanisms of the state and power, noted in this regard that “the modern State can scarcely function without becoming involved with racism at some point, within certain limits and subject to certain conditions.” Race or racism, “in a normalizing society,” he noted, “is the precondition that … More Mbembe on Foucault
Reading Mbembe
20/07/2025
The transnationalization of the Black condition was a constitutive moment for modernity, with the Atlantic serving as its incubator. After Independence, a class of Creole Whites asserted and consolidated their influence. Oldquestions of heterogeneity, difference, and liberty were once again posed, with new elites using the ideology of mestizaje to deny and disqualify the racial … More Reading Mbembe
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