Thomaz Amancio
@thomazamancio.bsky.social
A fool abroad. Working on how fieldwork in the plantation shaped Brazilian literature and social science. Teaching fellow UChicago.
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Escrevi sobre Guerra - I, primeiro volume da trilogia de Beatriz Bracher sobre a Guerra do Paraguai, e minhas frustrações com esse projeto que parecia promissor.
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Amei a referência a The Rehearsal no segundo episódio de Pluribus.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Amei a referência a The Rehearsal no segundo episódio de Pluribus.
O álbum da Rosalía é realmente incrível.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
O álbum da Rosalía é realmente incrível.
Vi O Último Azul ontem e depois li um comentário tão ruim no letterboxd que quase me fez desgostar do filme. Culpa minha, claro.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Vi O Último Azul ontem e depois li um comentário tão ruim no letterboxd que quase me fez desgostar do filme. Culpa minha, claro.
Alegria enorme de compartilhar o livro novo de Marília Floôr Kosby, desmontadas: epopeia sem_taura na província dos filhos de uma égua, publicado pela Coragem. Kosby é uma das poetas que mais admiro. Imaginem a honra quando ela me convidou, faz uns meses, para fazer a curadoria do texto desse livro.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Alegria enorme de compartilhar o livro novo de Marília Floôr Kosby, desmontadas: epopeia sem_taura na província dos filhos de uma égua, publicado pela Coragem. Kosby é uma das poetas que mais admiro. Imaginem a honra quando ela me convidou, faz uns meses, para fazer a curadoria do texto desse livro.
Haddad deu entrevista pro Denvir no The Dig
New Dig ep w/ Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination/unequal exchange. How the left must navigate contradictions of governance. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/braz...
Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad
Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister...
www.thedigradio.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Haddad deu entrevista pro Denvir no The Dig
Muito triste ainda. Mal consegui ouvir as músicas ontem.
Lô Borges tinha vinte anos e cantava como quem lembra do futuro, de vidas passadas, e sabe que hoje também já é outrora. Voa, bicho.
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Muito triste ainda. Mal consegui ouvir as músicas ontem.
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imagine calling it "The Mushroom at the End of the World" and not "The Morel Economy of the Crowd," SMDH
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
imagine calling it "The Mushroom at the End of the World" and not "The Morel Economy of the Crowd," SMDH
Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production is on pre-order at UP Florida website. I have a chapter on this volume, on animal voices in the literature of Guimarães Rosa and Marília Kosby. Use code 31SAVE for a 20% discount: upf.com/book.asp?id=...
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production is on pre-order at UP Florida website. I have a chapter on this volume, on animal voices in the literature of Guimarães Rosa and Marília Kosby. Use code 31SAVE for a 20% discount: upf.com/book.asp?id=...
Another note: it's curious that The English Understand Wool was a kind of manifesto against autofiction, or at least against the commodification of autobiography, and this is very much an experiment in autofiction, albeit heavily mediated by postmodern self-awareness.
Not to be a contrarian, but I'm actually more excited about this one than the Pynchon.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Another note: it's curious that The English Understand Wool was a kind of manifesto against autofiction, or at least against the commodification of autobiography, and this is very much an experiment in autofiction, albeit heavily mediated by postmodern self-awareness.
Lô Borges tinha vinte anos e cantava como quem lembra do futuro, de vidas passadas, e sabe que hoje também já é outrora. Voa, bicho.
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Lô Borges tinha vinte anos e cantava como quem lembra do futuro, de vidas passadas, e sabe que hoje também já é outrora. Voa, bicho.
Ah não, bicho
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ah não, bicho
Among other things, this book is a very weird artifact in the history of orientalism.
Not to be a contrarian, but I'm actually more excited about this one than the Pynchon.
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Among other things, this book is a very weird artifact in the history of orientalism.
O anjo da história acordou zonzo hoje.
Cemitério encontrado em estacionamento de Salvador abriga corpos de mais de 100 mil escravizados, aponta pesquisa ==> glo.bo/48SMYi5 #g1
Cemitério encontrado em Salvador abriga corpos de mais de 100 mil escravizados
Cemitério fica em estacionamento no Centro da cidade. De acordo com o MP-BA, os resultados da escavação foram apresentados em reunião com o Iphan.
glo.bo
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
O anjo da história acordou zonzo hoje.
There's this scene in Haddawy's translation of the 1001 Nights that's literally Nathan for You's "I hope you're hungry... for nothing" moment:
"When the demon heard the fisherman, he said, 'Be glad!' The fisherman cried, 'O happy day!' The demon added, 'Be glad that you will soon be put to death.'"
"When the demon heard the fisherman, he said, 'Be glad!' The fisherman cried, 'O happy day!' The demon added, 'Be glad that you will soon be put to death.'"
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
There's this scene in Haddawy's translation of the 1001 Nights that's literally Nathan for You's "I hope you're hungry... for nothing" moment:
"When the demon heard the fisherman, he said, 'Be glad!' The fisherman cried, 'O happy day!' The demon added, 'Be glad that you will soon be put to death.'"
"When the demon heard the fisherman, he said, 'Be glad!' The fisherman cried, 'O happy day!' The demon added, 'Be glad that you will soon be put to death.'"
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amigos, acaba de ser publicado meu artigo na revista o eixo e a roda da ufmg sobre o cruising noturno na poesia do roberto piva
O caçador da noite: O cruising noturno na poesia urbana de Roberto Piva
| O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira
periodicos.ufmg.br
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
amigos, acaba de ser publicado meu artigo na revista o eixo e a roda da ufmg sobre o cruising noturno na poesia do roberto piva
"You would say, Ovid's Metamorphoses is really
good. I respond to you: Ovid is a crazy teller of tales!"
Savonarola would have been a poster.
good. I respond to you: Ovid is a crazy teller of tales!"
Savonarola would have been a poster.
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"You would say, Ovid's Metamorphoses is really
good. I respond to you: Ovid is a crazy teller of tales!"
Savonarola would have been a poster.
good. I respond to you: Ovid is a crazy teller of tales!"
Savonarola would have been a poster.
Not to be a contrarian, but I'm actually more excited about this one than the Pynchon.
October 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not to be a contrarian, but I'm actually more excited about this one than the Pynchon.
Ensaio da Garapa desse mês, provando mais uma vez o que eu disse abaixo:
open.substack.com/pub/garapa/p...
open.substack.com/pub/garapa/p...
October 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ensaio da Garapa desse mês, provando mais uma vez o que eu disse abaixo:
open.substack.com/pub/garapa/p...
open.substack.com/pub/garapa/p...
This one got here just in time to offer some support in this quarter's Humanities core teaching.
October 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This one got here just in time to offer some support in this quarter's Humanities core teaching.
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It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press
Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...
www.oupress.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
Teaching Ovid in the core I always go back to Herbert's "Apollo and Marsyas," a poem that I could never shake since I first read it many years ago:
www.kencraftauthor.com/apollo-and-m...
www.kencraftauthor.com/apollo-and-m...
“Apollo and Marsyas” by Zbigniew Herbert – Ken Craft
www.kencraftauthor.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Teaching Ovid in the core I always go back to Herbert's "Apollo and Marsyas," a poem that I could never shake since I first read it many years ago:
www.kencraftauthor.com/apollo-and-m...
www.kencraftauthor.com/apollo-and-m...
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If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen
www.bookforum.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Tendo em vista as indicações que o livro recebeu nos prêmios literários, reposto aqui minha resenha.
Escrevi sobre Guerra - I, primeiro volume da trilogia de Beatriz Bracher sobre a Guerra do Paraguai, e minhas frustrações com esse projeto que parecia promissor.
apartedoscriticos.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/g...
apartedoscriticos.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/g...
apartedoscriticos.wordpress.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Tendo em vista as indicações que o livro recebeu nos prêmios literários, reposto aqui minha resenha.
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It's funny when you are reading an Inquisition trial and realize that the witness is the most famous Brazilian poet of the age, Gregório de Matos Guerra (1636-96). It was a pretty anodyne statement: he was friends with the accused but seemed to want no trouble with the Inquisition...
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's funny when you are reading an Inquisition trial and realize that the witness is the most famous Brazilian poet of the age, Gregório de Matos Guerra (1636-96). It was a pretty anodyne statement: he was friends with the accused but seemed to want no trouble with the Inquisition...