Sublime

Esse colonialismo está impregnado na cabeça do vereador, do prefeito, do governador, de tudo quanto é gente que tem o status de apertar algum botão, de abrir algum portão. Esses caras continuam a serviço da invasão.

For years now, when I cannot sleep, I rise from bed and watch Jacques Derrida talk. I watch what he said sometime in the late 1990s. Each time that I write something, he said, and it feels like I’m advancing into new territory (he demonstrates “advance” with his left hand), somewhere I haven’t been before, and this type of advance often demands cer

Modernes. Avec eux, il fallait toujours choisir entre l’ancien et le neuf qu’un couperet avait irréversiblement tranchés. Le passé n’était plus ce qui permettait le passage mais ce qui était simplement dépassé.

the promise of postapartheid South Africa has not been realized. For its part, Nigeria was a British colony for a century before gaining its independence in 1960. The country’s subsequent history can only be described as deeply troubled; its initial decades were marked by civil war, secessionist challenges, and military rule. Its politics seem to h

Here the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre perceives a shift from communal ethics to a world order in which the individual has apparently become the norm. In his magnum opus After Virtue, MacIntyre explodes, among other things, the myth of modern moral freedom. Yes, we have been liberated from priests and the morality they imposed on us; but,

A key realization for me, which came in a flash, was the idea that neoliberalism is not a total worldview. Many people believe it is, but in fact it is a political-economic project that can articulate with several different and even competing projects of recognition—including progressive ones.

Matzinger challenged the idea that the human body is as interested in “the self” as nineteenth-century

Lasch emphasizes the nexus between the decline of nations and the collapse of the middle class, which is linked to the forces of globalization, capitalism and technology.

Uma de suas teses é que a descolonização inaugurou o tempo da bifurcação na direção de futuros inumeráveis. Esses futuros eram, por definição, contingentes. As trajetórias seguidas pelas nações recém-libertas foram, em parte, consequência de lutas internas às sociedades em questão5. Essas lutas foram moldadas pelas formas sociais antigas e as estru