Glissant’s book also has much more in it on the psychology of domination than I had realized, and is in general much more thoroughgoing and serious than it had ever seemed to me the various times I had tried to work with it in a rushed way (the academic way). I am reading slowly which is what makes it possible to read all day.
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But in academic culture that is not allowed. Whatever you are doing, you must do it faster — or so say the professors, at any rate. Speed is this abstract paradigm of virtue; safety is defined as whatever speed causes pain and inefficiency; failure to maintain such levels of safety at all times equals death.
If you did anything well, it was foolhardy because people will be envious; in any case, you must have spent an amount of time upon it that will destroy your career because you must have neglected other things to do this. You have to set more alarm clocks, rush more, “cut corners” more, buy an egg timer for each room, rush, rush, rush.
I do not know why people spent so much time saying these things to me — to me, who was never behind. In any case not rushing is what has made it possible to understand Glissant and move ahead.
One day I will no longer be interested in crushing the skulls of all the professors and graduate students who preached so endlessly at me about rushing and rushing, but now, still surprised every time I use my own methods and see how well they work, I am still very interested in doing this.
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It is said that people do not want to start working because it is work, but I think it is because they have been taught that to start working means to start rushing, goading oneself on, increasing pain levels, rush, rush, rush.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
The Glissant book is really good and I had never really figured it out.
And I seem to have experienced a whole lot of emotional violence from academics; look at the violence of my feelings about them.