Monthly Archives: April 2012

Posdata: Truth as transgression

Posted on 29 April, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

Extract from the Guatemalan “Military Diary,” a military intelligence register of detained individuals, most of whom were disappeared.  The code “-300-” is interpreted to mean that the individual depicted was executed. P.D. The most disturbing scene recounted in Bolaño’s Estrella distante … Continue reading →

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Exhibits from Bolaño: Culture and atrocity

Posted on 29 April, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

Posters showing the faces of people disappeared and killed by the Guatemalan state alongside graffiti depicting Salvador Dali, Guatemala City Primary readings: Estrella Distante (1996) and Nocturno de Chile (2000), Roberto Bolaño I knew while reading that Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes (The Savage … Continue reading →

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Inspiration is challenge

Posted on 9 April, 2012 by cascadiasolidaria

∞ Is it abundance, or freedom of some sort which fails me?  It must be rage.  Not a certain kind of amorous rage.  Just simple, violent rage.  The more violent, the better.  The rage of those who don’t know anything. … Continue reading →

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