Writing published by Frederick Luis Aldama http://www.humanitiesretooled.org Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:56:24 +0000 FeedCreator 1.4 http://www.humanitiesretooled.org/index.php?sm=hrt_editorial.php&modCMS_cidd=77 I read with great enthusiasm Timothy Brennan's timely, and informative essay, "The Empire's New Clothes" (Critical Inquiry. Vol. 29, no. 2, 2003). First, Brennan's essay on Negri and Hardt's academic best-selling Empire leaves almost no stone unturned. He shows how these two alchemists use their best rhetorical shots to persuade their readers that the fight against capitalism and all its monstrous consequences is no longer necessary because capitalism--as Brennan phrases it--has already provided us with an "inchoate communism." Frederick Luis Aldama Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:53:24 +0000 http://www.humanitiesretooled.org/index.php?sm=hrt_editorial.php&modCMS_cidd=78 With the publication of eleven beautifully crafted, stylistically varied novels, five collections of poetry, several works of criticism on Shakespeare and writing, and an autobiography, Zulfikar Ghose is one of our late-twentieth century's great and prolific writers. Frederick Luis Aldama Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:56:38 +0000 http://www.humanitiesretooled.org/index.php?sm=hrt_editorial.php&modCMS_cidd=79 Frederick Luis Aldama: Tell me about the photograph used on the cover of A Place to Stand. [Image of a lone, thick-trunk tree in the foreground, a distant horizon, and an overcast sky that threatens climatic change.] Frederick Luis Aldama Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:57:38 +0000 http://www.humanitiesretooled.org/index.php?sm=hrt_editorial.php&modCMS_cidd=80 After receiving an interesting, though not very constructive review of my essay, "Frontera Musicscapes: Grinding Up a Bad Edge in Borderland Studies", I take the opportunity to think about the purpose of studying music (borderland or otherwise). Frederick Luis Aldama Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:54:38 +0000 http://www.humanitiesretooled.org/index.php?sm=hrt_editorial.php&modCMS_cidd=98 ON CONCEPTS. A concept is a mental representation of a class of objects in the world. It is the "glue that holds our mental world together", according to Gregory L. Murphy. Frederick Luis Aldama Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:22:46 +0000