I taught four classes in a row today, on four topics as I always do Tuesdays and Thursdays this semester, after getting up at 5:30 AM to finish grading and updating WebCT. A job candidate is landing in exactly 34 minutes. I expect to be bleary eyed for some time. In the fourth class, I … More On Absolutism and Enlightenment
This is the fourth installment of our mysterious text. Once again, what I present here is a very rough draft. It could use comments. In the cathedral people were celebrating the solemn novena to the human eyes of St. Lucy. The exterior of things was being glorified, the clean, well ventilated beauty of the skin, … More St. Lucy and St. Lazarus IV
I never read the newsletter of California Prison Focus as closely as I might, but an item in the current edition caught my eye – Robin Levi and Vanessa Huang’s “Prison Proposal is Disturbingly Akin to Eugenics” (rpt. from L. A. Daily Journal, 8 January 2007), on p. 25. Apparently, sterilization is again being foisted … More Eugenics News
1. We understand ‘modernism’ by reference to its focus on authenticity and originality, and ‘post-modernism’ by a reactive emphasis on repetition and derivativeness. 2. If modernism ignores the role of discourse in shaping social representations, the post-modernist emphasis on discursive construction has tended to employ a socially unlocatable model of discourse. On 1. Is this … More Modernism and Avant-Garde
“But if subjectively the intention of rupture, of ‘beginning from zero’ (which if it does not absolutely negate the past, at least questions and attacks it) predominates, we understand, then, that all avant-garde movements propose a strategy – a word that, in order to return to a previous point, not only implies a disruption but … More Version Z
Did you know Joan and Mimi could sing cuecas, and that they sang this Bolivian anthem at the 1972 concert with B. B. King at Sing Sing? I discovered it while looking for Peruvian cuecas. Here is some commentary on the song by Rockoblogia: De la canción escrita por Apolinar Camacho: El boliviano tocó las … More Viva mi patria Bolivia
This translation is getting harder, and it needs annotation as well. Here, however, is the third section. It could use comments. I started doing the translation because I was not sure I understood the original. I then found that in order to make the text marginally readable in English, I must also stray on purpose … More St. Lucy and St. Lazarus III
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