Javier Padilla
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Javier Padilla's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
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Javier Padilla wrote a new post, On Outka’s Viral Modernism, on the site Javier Padilla on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
I would like to start this brief meditation with a phrase from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. There, Fanon describes the colonial situation as one characterized by what he calls “atmospheric vio […]
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Javier Padilla wrote a new post, Recapitulation: Sediments of a Potential System (ΦΨω), on the site Javier Padilla on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
I. Substratum
(1) The singular fear/feat is the approximation to the object.
(2) The concepts flow, sperm-like, towards the singularity.
(3) The singularity is approached in a slo […]
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Javier Padilla wrote a new post, Loose Notes, on the site Javier Padilla on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
While teaching during this fractured semester–via Zoom to be sure–I found myself taking notes in loose white pages. I would steal them from my printer and write down my thoughts as I got ready to teach my […]
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Javier Padilla's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
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Javier Padilla wrote a new post, Control Group, on the site Javier Padilla on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
Finding the full record of a life in the poet’s studio the day after they die, this is the literary critic’s imagined space. This attempt to find the writer’s body, his peculiar rhythm, (“a certain drive, h […]
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Javier Padilla deposited The Gothic Third World: Photography and the Poetics of Exclusion on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
A series of constellated readings that both reflect and displace Benjamin and Kracauer’s critical treatment of modernity. While their ideas are usually understood as symptoms of the catastrophic historical situation in Weimar Germany, this essay re-inscribes their theories upon the accelerated processes of modernisation which took place in the T…[Read more]
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Javier Padilla wrote a new post, On Adorno’s “Lyric Poetry and Society”, on the site Javier Padilla on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
In their introductory remarks to a volume dedicated to a re-assessment of the work of Theodor Adorno and “the American dimensions of his thought” (Telos 149, Winter 2009), Russell A. Berman, Ulrich Plass, and Jos […]
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Javier Padilla wrote a new post, Aesthetic Redeption, on the site Javier Padilla on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
It’s hard to believe but another year is over, another decade, and in the case of academics and pedagogues in the increasingly shrinking humanities, the end of another semester.
Originally, I wanted to use this […]
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Javier Padilla deposited Yeats’s Meditative Spaces in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe twentieth-century debate between modernist and postcolonial scholars around the figure of W.B. Yeats should move beyond purely modern or postcolonial frameworks. Yeats’s poems can be read as meditations through which the Irish poet both anticipates the promise of a postcolonial, modern world, and yet remains attached to the lasting structures…[Read more]
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Javier Padilla deposited Yeats’s Meditative Spaces in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe twentieth-century debate between modernist and postcolonial scholars around the figure of W.B. Yeats should move beyond purely modern or postcolonial frameworks. Yeats’s poems can be read as meditations through which the Irish poet both anticipates the promise of a postcolonial, modern world, and yet remains attached to the lasting structures…[Read more]
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The twentieth-century debate between modernist and postcolonial scholars around the figure of W.B. Yeats should move beyond purely modern or postcolonial frameworks. Yeats’s poems can be read as meditations through which the Irish poet both anticipates the promise of a postcolonial, modern world, and yet remains attached to the lasting structures…[Read more]
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Javier Padilla's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
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Javier Padilla created the site Javier Padilla on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
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Javier Padilla deposited The Rhythmic Course: A Trajectory in Four Movements on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Experimental piece on Accelerationism.
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Javier Padilla's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago