My book explores how certain human rights narratives (in literature and film) from Guatemala and Colombia foreground empathy in their plots, characters, and interpretations of history, social movements, and human rights reports. Here is a preview of its main themes and works examined.

Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo@cgrbravo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mi libro «Empatía reflexiva. Narrativas latinoamericanas sobre derechos humanos, memoria y trauma del siglo XXI» ya tiene fecha de publicación (julio 2) y portadas. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

I know why the author isn't catching flack! "As this resounding speech echoed in my ears, it occurred to me that it sounds nothing like the heroes of Homer—who, after all, gleefully vaunt over the mutilated bodies of their slaughtered enemies—but a lot like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies."

Artful Weaving | Daniel Mendelsohn

The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.

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infinite vindication for emily wilson

She has a whole section on this in her intro to The Odyssey and I disagree with her conclusions about how to handle it but she’s right that the shift away from “slave” is a softening of the political and social reality of the language. & it matters for example when discussing sex/consent.

I went back to Emily Wilson's piece to see if I could find where she, presumably, criticizes Nolan's film for its unfaithfulness to the original text, and got four paragraphs in before finding the exact opposite.

Much of the call for Wilson to be more "respectful" are demands for her to be less bluntly critical Nolan. Also, I find the Oates response particularly egregious. By her logic, anything that MAGA disagrees with must be supported even if the reason for disagreement is fundamentally different.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

Not personal: e.g. IMO, this work is incoherent, superficial and badly-written. Personal: e.g. You're ugly. You're hideous. Your tattoos are ugly. You're a bitter old woman. You're jealous. You're evil. You're ungrateful. You should shut up forever. I hope you die. I hope this helps!

Not personal: e.g. IMO, this work is incoherent, superficial and badly-written. Personal: e.g. You're ugly. You're hideous. Your tattoos are ugly. You're a bitter old woman. You're jealous. You're evil. You're ungrateful. You should shut up forever. I hope you die. I hope this helps!

Odysseus repeatedly tells lies about coming from Crete. Crete is a land of a past that never happened. The Cretan cover says: As you read this Odyssey, think about lying, identity, story-telling, myth, and whether the past can ever be truly recaptured.

Lmao notice how it erases & delegitimises her (gendered) expertise as a translator, while his remains unimpeachable. It’s the double standard she mentions: the author is expected to attempt fidelity to the source material; the translator is judged on fidelity to both the source AND author’s vision.

WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...

An Odyssey Through Testimonial Injustice

On reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properly

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last wk.

Don’t make me write a newsletter about how Emily Wilson is allowed to be an expert, you guys

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.

AndaliteBandit@andalitebandit.bsky.social · last wk.

Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.

12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.

5. Adaptations are often most successful when they make clear, courageous choices about what to leave out - so, for instance, the movie "The Return" seems to me both a much more radical departure from the original source, and also a more successful film.

Incredible

This isn’t a ‘roast’, a ‘hatchet job’, or ‘unfair’. Emily Wilson has spent 16yrs dedicated to the specific challenge of adapting Homer. She is among the most qualified people alive for the task of evaluating the *choices* made in this one. The movie will make $1b this week; it’ll be just fine.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

People dismissing Emily Wilson's entire academic career because she criticized Nolan.... You can defend the film without attacking Wilson's academic career and repeating talking points from X about her translation

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

She just gave a really interesting interview about how they omitted the world “slave” and used “servant”, and she argues about the importance and significance of that word. I think she’s brilliant. Haven’t seen the movie but this discourse makes me want to hurry up and go to the movies.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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"What the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads."

America’s Death Squads Are Real

Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.

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The manosphere and Christian Nationalist roots of Hegseth’s “low-T” fixation

The manosphere and Christian Nationalist roots of Hegseth’s “Low-T” fixation

"We're keeping you on the leading edge of lethality.”

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We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says

The Interior secretary said Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, wants foreign investment in the country's mining sector.

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OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?" "How do you like the performance?" An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!