It's forty years since the events that led to the murder of the Chilean singer, songwriter, theatre director and activist Víctor Jara (1932-1073). Here is a PDF of an article I wrote about Jara (and the Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez) while researching my doctoral thesis. I was, and remain, as interested in Jara's posthumous career… Continue reading Víctor Jara: 40 years
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little holes in grief
I’ve always felt that there is that moment in your life, when you forget about something that is really terrible. For five minutes the sun is shining and everything is beautiful. Then all of a sudden you realize that the person you cared about is gone, and it all comes back. It is one of… Continue reading little holes in grief
the quanta of the past
Grass has been growing over the entire past, which sudenly appears now to be leveled, no longer having any time value at all. Until - one usually discovers it with a blow - the displacement of the quanta of the past, which has continued to take place under the grass, becomes manifest: then the time… Continue reading the quanta of the past
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