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Carmen
Carmen is on page 8 of 192 of La Petite Dernière
Estoy volviendo a releer el libro en francés... es como si pudiera escuchar el eco de mi primera lectura traducida, de cómo leer el texto original desplaza las primeras percepciones y que mi imaginación ha absorbido miles de voces, la musicalidad de mi cotidianeidad de estos 21 meses que llevo aquí, de poder imaginarme ciertas geografías, siento mayor intimidad por un mundo compartido aunque aún no me pertenezca...
Jan 13, 2025 08:45AM Add a comment
La Petite Dernière

Carmen
Carmen is on page 144 of 320 of Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
"The diasporic challenges the idea of whole, integral, traditionally unchanging cultural identities. No identities survive the diasporic process intact and unchanged."
Sep 19, 2024 04:00PM Add a comment
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)

Carmen
Carmen is on page 60 of 320 of Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
"Winning a scholarship to Oxford in the late 1940s was regarded by my parents' friends as representing the triunph of, and justification for, my upbringing. But I knew in my heartbof hearts that i was the beginning of a lifelong escape attempt. Did I believe that escape was possible? I suspect not. But I had no option but to proceed as if it were."
Sep 16, 2024 08:06AM Add a comment
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)

Carmen
Carmen is on page 16 of 320 of Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
"We tend to think of identity as taking us back to our roots, the part of us which remains essentially the same across time. In fact identity is always a never-completed process of becoming- a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being."
Sep 14, 2024 09:00AM Add a comment
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)

Carmen
Carmen is on page 252 of 261 of Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Me da pena terminarlo 😭
Sep 10, 2024 12:08PM Add a comment
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Carmen
Carmen is on page 249 of 261 of Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
"Cathy showed me that I was humanly fragile. I found in myself the heroine of every heartbreak song I have ever laughed at but played again. I was not completely calloused. My skin was as thin as anyone's."
Sep 10, 2024 08:44AM Add a comment
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Carmen
Carmen is on page 187 of 261 of Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Pienso en la complejidad de toda la mierda que interiorizamos, de lo difícil que es permitirse desear y Dorothy Allison no solo habla del deseo en el campo de sexualidad al que le presta gran importancia. Habla también del deseo en la política y del deseo en la literatura: de la búsqueda de la verdad. Pienso en todos los pequeños momentos que me estoy dando permiso, desde el sentir hasta el hacer, de la dificultad.
Sep 09, 2024 05:00AM Add a comment
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Carmen
Carmen is on page 181 of 261 of Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
"Some things never change. There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto (...) A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined".
Sep 07, 2024 03:51PM Add a comment
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Carmen
Carmen is on page 50 of 195 of This Blinding Absence of Light
"O my God, I have learned from You that a healthy body teaches us about the beauty of the world. It is echo of enchantment, produced by life and light. It is light. Light in life. When it is withdrawn from life, isolated and imprisoned in a black hole, it no longer echoes anything, it reflects nothing. Thanks to Your will, I shall never be extinguised."
Aug 10, 2024 01:40AM Add a comment
This Blinding Absence of Light

Carmen
Carmen is 16% done with This Blinding Absence of Light
Echaba en falta leer ficción que me enganchara de manera inmediata. Es un libro muy duro, trata sobre las condiciones materiales y psicológicas de ser prisionero político, pero las descripciones son muy humanas, la caracterización de los personajes suficientemente compleja con pocas pinceladas, y me hace pensar en cómo hablamos de la violencia política, sobre la resistencia, de la importancia de la literatura.
Aug 06, 2024 04:02AM Add a comment
This Blinding Absence of Light

Carmen
Carmen is on page 78 of 261 of Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Volviendo a Dorothy Allison, su prosa es impecable y ahora me siento con la suficiente claridad para sumergirme de nuevo en ella:

"I had no idea that book would change how I thought about fiction, how I thought about myself and the poverty into which I had been born. Then it would take hold of my imagination and shake me out the belief that there was no connection between my life and the lives of people in fiction."
Aug 02, 2024 02:57PM Add a comment
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Carmen
Carmen is 99% done with The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
Tengo que releerlo con más calma, después de indagar en perspectivas en las que indaga el libro con las que solo estoy familiarizada y también para repensar con otras referencias sobre cuestiones de reproducción social, derechos reproductivos, de qué manera las teorías postestructuralistas pueden tener una dimensión más material de lo que se critica en el libro y una visión más matizada del postcolonialismo.
May 02, 2024 10:57AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 260 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
Leyendo otras críticas, acercándome al final he podido ir articulando una sospecha ... La sospecha del dogma, la inconsistencia entre lo condicional y la teoría determinista... la llamada a un internacionalismo y desestimar el pensamiento decolonial crítico... la relación de condicionamiento entre lo material y lo social tiende a brillar por su ausencia y me gustaría más lecturas situadas de marx...
Apr 20, 2024 02:22PM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 260 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
Me gustaría que en algún momento se dijera que esta perspectiva tiene sus límites y no puede abarcar todo y nace de un contexto determinado y me gustaría que no se redujese las "disco wars" a que el capitalismo vendiese la idea del placer como algo malo 🫠 o que no se utilizase la crítica de la crítica y que aportase sus propias perspectivas del colonialismo, y la sección sobre la construcción de la razas...
Apr 20, 2024 01:19PM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 260 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
"Whiteness is presented in the same double way in liberal pluralist variants of privilege politics. In this account, racism is a property emanating from white minds; thus, ending racism means eradicating this mental tendency. (...) In other words, in the liberal pluralist view, ending racism is not a struggle aided by awareness, it is the awareness campaign itself."
Apr 20, 2024 04:21AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 227 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
En plan...100% "When the working class is invoked, or the Black family, or refugee crises, or an international confla-gration, it is generally imagined as a crisis of heterosexual people or a movement of heterosexual people. Gay people exist within the bubble of the gay problematic. They do not suffer economic crises, play video games, care for aging parents, or fight for the rights of fellow immigrants."
Apr 17, 2024 05:22AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 222 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
"Much of the classical Marxist tradition constructed a false choice between three political modalities: reactionary protection of the family from erosion by capitalism, liberal pluralism, and a vision of liberation connected to the good old days of yesteryear’s material conditions."
Apr 17, 2024 04:01AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 220 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
"Your parents might have disowned you, your neighbors might vote against your interests, but Apple supports you (...) this cynical display of corporate affection exists in a gap where genuine solidarity could be: the labor unions support you, the Black power movements support you, the immigrants’ rights groups support you, reproductive rights groups support you, the revolutionary Marxists support you."
Apr 17, 2024 03:58AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 202 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
"So, without economics, what can class be? Class becomes classism or discrimination based on class. Class oppression is reduced to having to endure the snobbishness of the upper classes. It does not explain how upper and lower classes are maintained. (..) Once again, the culprit of all social ills is power, privilege, and othering. The material relations of social production never enter the picture."
Apr 14, 2024 01:54PM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 193 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
Siento que a medida que avanzo, las lecturas se van haciendo múltiples y desde el cuerpo, y creo que apela a un sentido de la política en la práctica, sobretodo como crítica de gente como a mí que durante mucho tiempo he estado obsesionada con la indignación sin llegar a hacer nada.
Apr 13, 2024 04:55AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 163 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
"Having a job affirms that one creates value; being returned a piece of that value reaffirms personal worth; the fact that one can support oneself with wages suggests that one has social value. The fact that the economic system requires an enormous underclass supports the supposition that a certain cluster of behaviors, a certain way of genuflecting at the system, is how one achieves the financial stability one desires."
Apr 10, 2024 12:53AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 162 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
"Yet structural unemployment is a necessary feature of the free market system. The ability to discipline the labor force is necessary to extract profit from it. Te concepts of familial duty and personal responsibility form the moral orthodoxy that keeps the system afloat. Familial duty puts the onus on the labor force to provide for their own individual children regardless of how low wages fall."
Apr 10, 2024 12:36AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 101 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
"Capitalism gives us many things to choose from, but little agency. There is a difference between celebrating a market that produces things to choose from and promoting the right to make choices."
Apr 02, 2024 08:47PM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 67 of 352 of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
Esto es un poco meta pero no dejo de pensar en la necesidad de múltiples herramientas, libros, modos de aprehender las dinámicas estructurales que condicionan nuestra existencia material. Hay veces que se necesita un libro como este que haga perder el miedo a los 'grandes libros' secuestrados por el ego de algunos. Este libro me está ayudando a aproximarme al pensamiento de Marx sin ese temor y a mi propio ritmo.
Mar 30, 2024 05:35AM Add a comment
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Carmen
Carmen is on page 103 of 165 of Quem Tem Medo do Feminismo Negro?
Creo que voy a ser más escéptica en el futuro de leer un recopilatorio de artículos de opinión. Siento que un ensayo juega entre lo concreto y abre preguntas y reflexiones más allá de lo que trate de manera particular, mientras el artículo de opinión por su función tiene que cerrar el tema en cuestión y sacado de su contexto pierde un tanto, por no decir, bastante su sentido.
Mar 16, 2024 12:56PM Add a comment
Quem Tem Medo do Feminismo Negro?

Carmen
Carmen is 98% done with El Triangulo Funesto. Raza, etnia, nación
"(...) los sujetos de la diáspora hablan, cantan y escriben con tanta elocuencia en los lenguajes metafóricos del amor y la pérdida, la memoria y el deseo, la travesía, el viaje y el regreso. (...) Esos sujetos deben aprender a habitar más de una identidad (...), hablar en el inquietante espacio entre los idiomas significa negociar y traducir constantemente sus diferencias."
Mar 03, 2024 01:15PM Add a comment
El Triangulo Funesto. Raza, etnia, nación

Carmen
Carmen is on page 120 of 164 of El Triangulo Funesto. Raza, etnia, nación
"Tales operaciones discursivas en la creación de identidades culturales nacionales siempre están, por supuesto, estrechamente vinculadas al poder y a cómo funciona el poder en la sociedad. Debemos pensar en la nación no solo como una entidad política, sino también como algo que produce un significado y construye la identificación."
Mar 01, 2024 01:26PM Add a comment
El Triangulo Funesto. Raza, etnia, nación

Carmen
Carmen is on page 107 of 164 of El Triangulo Funesto. Raza, etnia, nación
La idea de que las periferias coloniales son espacios cerrados, étnicamente puros, siempre intactos, culturalmente tradicionales (...) no es más que una fantasía sobre la otredad, una fantasía colonial sobre la periferia mantenida por Occidente, que prefiere que sus nativos sean puros.
Mar 01, 2024 12:44PM Add a comment
El Triangulo Funesto. Raza, etnia, nación

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