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When Hemingway is remembered today, 50 years after his death, one usually thinks of the Old World: his time in Paris rubbing shoulders with Joyce, Pound, and the American expats of the so-called “Lost Generation”; his participation in three European wars; his love of Spanish bullfighting and African big-game hunting. Nabokov’s pithy dismissal of [...] Voy a Lubbock, Texas a finales de septiembre para presentar sobre la obra de Myriam Laurini. El congreso es la Conferencia Internacional de Literatura Detectivesca en Español (CILDE) y tiene buena pinta. Presento en una mesa titulada “Poder, conocimiento y control en el neopolicial.”
He aquí el sumario de mi ponencia:
This is an English version of a paper presented in Portuguese in Campinas, Brazil, on September 16, 2010. Introduction Occupy everything! Dieser Hörshaal ist besetzt! ¡Huelga! Greve! These and many other slogans have been shouted on university campuses during this last year, a tumultuous one for many universities throughout the world, as students, workers, [...] This is a slightly modified version of a short talk I gave on March 1, 2010, at the Center for Latin American Studies in Berkeley, California. Introduction This paper is an early attempt to show how Ena Lucía Portela’s El pájaro: pincel y tinta china contains formal features grounded in a kind of postmodern [...] Paper presented April 10, 2008 in Flagstaff, Arizona. EXTRACT: “Mi análisis se centra en la relación de Papel picado con el género policial o, más bien, con la estética o el ambiente “noir”, asociado con la variante “hard-boiled” del género. La tesis que sustento tiene dos partes. La primera es que en Papel picado [...] Paper presented April 4, 2009 at the University of California, Irvine. EXTRACT: Wertkritik focuses its analysis on abstract value as a “real abstraction” that constitutes an end in itself and that generates capital’s overall dynamic. Anticapitalist movements have all failed because they have been unable to alter this dynamic, which would entail truly [...] Paper presented June 19, 2009 at Portland State University. EXTRACT: “In an essay written against Thorstein Veblen’s theory of ‘conspicuous consumption,’ Adorno expressed disagreement with Veblen’s characterization of luxury consumption as an unequivocal manifestation of bad faith, because the consumer does, in fact, derive real satisfaction from the object consumed. This negative appraisal [...] |
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