Blogs

gratitude and questioning

cloudy sun-day

Inca communism; a slight revision of my last 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 […]

Discomfort in Andean Community

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 […]

communal shitstorms (only the literal part) and real life

no more ceviche until lima

week4—a Cat inspired me to write; animals of Peru interrupting, grounding, and fleeting—

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. […]

how old is modern bureaucracy (does age matter?)

“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.