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Now in @aeonmag, my attempt to reckon with the complicated legacy of Walter Mignolo and his brand of decoloniality.
Federico Perelmuter
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Federico Perelmuter
@cementeriocc
contributing writer @southwestreview
- rewatched recently and it might be the most reactionary film i’ve seen in a long timefresh out of the anniversary screening on IMAX, some loose thoughts on Interstellar, a Great American Novel of a film, and for my money the greatest space movie ever made
- this is *literally* not trueReading about Javier Milei — paragraphs like this should be internalized by every public policymaker in the west
- i think a lot of why substack writing mostly sucks/has 0 impact intellectually is that people confuse a decent observation—the very beginning of an essay—with an actual thought-out piece
- this is so unbelievably untrue and incorrectGood literature has historically been produced by poor students of literature — those who misunderstood what was good about the works that preceded them, imitated them poorly, focusing on all the wrong things, and produced something original.
- Replying to @set__piecethankfully i am not a child and therefore can do multiple things at once with my brain
- ah yes nobody has ever discussed thisnobody ever seems to notice what year the duchamp piece is from
- Replying to @cementerioccthis dude is so fucking nostalgic for the new deal/1930s it’s crazy
- a young Fred Jameson from the Haverford College yearbook of 1954 (cc @majortominor, @coolsandstorm, @businessgoth)
- tenet is perfect because it doesn’t make Any Fucking Sense
- genuinely fact-checking is about to cost magazines like 25% more lolis libgen actually permanently shutting down…this is my 9/11
- i’m sorry did they call margaret atwood postcolonial? also this is dogshit why don’t you read latin american criticism of magical realism/etc instead?
- sorry but it's not because they audience doesn't know better, it's because they ENJOY that shit. that's what they want. they're not being bamboozled.I dislike Andrea Long Chu’s style of review very much but she pinpoints the stupidity and performance of many diasporic writers who get away with talking about their homeland, mother language, and ancestors like magical primitives because a white audience doesn’t know better
