Hi, I'm Gabriela. I write and record essays about literature, philosophy, and the history of ideas, a.k.a. the records of the enduring human effort to understand reality through words.
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Wittgenstein as Poet
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world” (Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 5.6). I tend to believe that austere Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is right.
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Language is the only means by which...
Things (and People) Fall Apart: Boundaries between Self and Other in Parable of the Sower and District 9
Photo by John Cardamone on Unsplash
Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower recount science-fictional narratives in versions of Johannesburg, South Africa and California, USA, respectively. Their protagonists h...
Franz Kafka and the Anxiety of Judgment
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I. Introduction
“I am a cage in search of a bird,” wrote Franz Kafka, one of the most iconic figures of modern world literature and Gen Z’s literary heartthrob. Wha...
On The Fear of False and Fading Memories
Some of the story I am about to tell you is made up.
A lot of the things about my father have to be made up. If his life were a coloring book, there would be a lot of tones outside the lines because I’m the one who’s been drawing the pictu...
Seeing Trees and Magic Carpets: On Nabokov (From the Archives)
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sun, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.”
Those three sentences are, in my opinion, some of the best opening...
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