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Jon brought the hammer down on me during the England-Serbia football match earlier today. Reading my recently uploaded post, he remarked that I clearly had not been to the class on Mariategui – which was true, I was ill. In attacking his generalization of socialism, I was unaware that Mariategui highlighted forms of the Incan […] read full post >>

Jon brought the hammer down on me during the England-Serbia football match earlier today. Reading my recently uploaded post, he remarked that I clearly had not been to the class on Mariategui – which was true, I was ill. In attacking his generalization of socialism, I was unaware that Mariategui highlighted forms of the Incan […] read full post >>

This past week we made a visit to the Andean community that is affiliated with the Associacion Kusi Kawsay. Though I felt tired and weak, as I spent the previous night sick with food poisoning, I did not want to miss out on this experience. Most days of our journey thus far, we have been […] read full post >>

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Sitting in class this week, the one after the plague had moved through our group, someone—I believe it was Jasmine—mentioned that UBC has no sense of community, or no community at all, something along those lines. At first, I thought, yeah, she’s right. At least for me, being “28”, I am a lot older than […] read full post >>

“Not surprisingly, many condemned to burn at the stake had ‘revocante’ added to their list of crimes. (p.73)” In Silverblatt’s chapter on the inquisition as bureaucracy, she examines the regular use of torture to obtain confessions of religious crimes. Torture yielded notoriously unreliable confessions, and suspects who subsequently go against their own word gained the […] read full post >>

week4—a Cat inspired me to write; animals of Peru interrupting, grounding, and fleeting— experience blog #4 — I am enticed by how community works here. As I am writing this, I have been graced—and interrupted—with the presence of a stinky, cuddly, inefficient, and adorable cat. This sentence alone has taken me 20 minutes to write. […] read full post >>

Per Jon’s recommendation, Caroline and I visited a chicheria. They’re marked by upside down brooms covered in red plastic, and are active in the afternoon. There’s no lights on, and usually are they are frequented with a few older men. I get the sense that chicherias are a macho thing, but the particular crowd we […] read full post >>

“Weber placed the birth of modern bureaucracies in the nineteenth century, and Foucault and Bourdieu placed that birth two centuries before.” says Irene Silverblatt. I love Weber and Foucault, just like every other queer political philosopher enthusiast, but I’m a baby and I don’t think I understand Weber and Foucault deep enough to know why it matters. read full post >>