Check out WashiWara Planet. The music starts after the singer-hero arrives by magical car. In this next double dose from Cameroun the singer-hero arrives by spaceship – must be the Mothership – and opposes corruption. “It sounds like the words flow.” I wish I could do an act like this in class. I will aspire … More Avant-Goût of WashiWara – Docta Musica
Sunday’s NYT Magazine had a number of essays on higher education and university level teaching. I am going to read it. I have heard it is very good. I know I should want to read the Chronicle of Higher Education but am I the only one who finds it – well, goody-goody? Axé.
I might vote for Cynthia McKinney just for the sake of voting closer to my actual views, if I thought Obama really couldn’t win Louisiana. But call me an Obamaholic, Field Negro. I won’t mind, I was a Kucinich voter originally. Now, however, I am in enough denial about the possibility of a McCain victory … More Probability and Statistics: Louisiana for Obama?
This is the first day of Fall, the best season. I always liked Fall but in Louisiana it is truly stellar because there is a day in early Fall when the humidity leaves the air. This lowers the heat index greatly and it becomes possible to go outdoors. The month of October is as cool … More World Traffic Survey, and AIDESEP
IN WHICH A YANKEE IMPERIALIST IS UNABLE TO RESIST THE CHARMS OF BARACK OBAMA. This post, which had taken a certain amount of work and thought, got too baroque. I was trying therefore to break it into three posts. In the process of that I destroyed it, and it is the weekend, and there are … More Go Tell Mama, I’m for Obama
As the assiduous reader will know, this weblog exists so that I can extirpate from myself that whiteman’s voice and rediscover my own. It is, in other words, a playground in which I am learning for the second or third time in life not to be cruel to myself. One of the ways I am … More Mountains, Winds, and Seas
I clearly do not know myself at all. A student whose pedagogical project I am supervising says I have a strong interest in pedagogy. I have always denied this, originally out of the fear of being designated for a pink collar job, but I see his point. This is quite interesting. Perhaps I have not … More Station Break
A. I was taught that in academia, you had to do things halfheartedly to survive. You must just walk through teaching, since you will not get credit for it; you must write a great deal, but always acceptably bland things, so as to have a form and type of production conventional enough to pass; you … More Full On
I have now finished writing a series of texts which could become a manuscript. They are not yet a manuscript, and may not be suitable as an academic manuscript, but they are what I have been writing since I got back from Peru. I started this file long ago and worked on it occasionally, but … More Pour-soi
I wrote this post long before the recent Wall Street news came out. That only makes it more interesting. * Look closely at this chart. My 1981 research insight was that we were, via internal colonialism, deindustrialization and planned underdevelopment, beginning the project of concentrating wealth in the hands of the transnationals and a few … More Our Colonial Economy
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