There are people, things and books I only get to know about because I read of them in the news. (I cannot afford to go to national conferences now, for example. When the university stopped funding these a few years ago I filled up a credit card for a while. Now I am paying on … More Oblivion: A Memoir
Where even the shadow has light, there summer is spoken. Where darkness speaks you– a word– you still say light. Where the body is, you say convocation, absolute sun. –Andrés Sánchez Robyana, trans. J. Mayhew, in The Nation 295:16 (15.X.2012): 32. Axé.
Et voilà, now we know. Once again, that is what I would have said, at eleven, seventeen, twenty-four, thirty-one, until I met professors. Namely, assistant professors who had been protégés of famous people at famous schools, and had jobs for this reason. Also, associate and full professors who had attained these ranks by pleasing the … More What is a scholar?
“For much of human history, systems of virtual money were designed and regulated to ensure that nothing like capitalism could ever emerge to begin with – at least not as it appears in its present form, with most of the world’s population placed in a condition that would in many other periods of history be … More David Graeber
Check this out, it is quite interesting. Axé.
El vendedor de agua Canción Autor: Francisco Repilado Muñoz y Lorenzo Hierrezuelo Caserita vendo agua Un cubito para ti Caserita vendo agua Un cubito para ti. La traigo barata y limpia Cómprame el agua a mí El aguador caserita ya llegó Agua para limpiar y tomar También para cocinar La traigo pura y limpita El … More El vendedor de agua
Now that I have decided to actively make foreign language classes a space of relaxation and anti-tension, I have also decided to care about the textbook. I do not like foreign language textbooks because they are not in black and white. They are very busy, filled with all of these distracting boxes and drawings. I … More Foreign Language Textbooks (a crabby post)
“You are not like other faculty,” I have always heard, and I never understood what it meant except that I am not the type to have a minivan. But now I am starting to see. They loved to read, and then they fell in love with a particular foreign culture, or with something in their … More The difference between me and some others
“I have coined the term post-fascism to describe a cluster of policies, practices, routines and ideologies which can be observed everywhere in the contemporary world. Without ever resorting to a coup d’etat, these practices are threatening our communities. They find their niche easily in the new global capitalism, without upsetting the dominant political forms of … More Gáspár Miklós Tamás
In my graduate program, which was quite rigorous, there were people more advanced than I who knew older languages and older professors, and who said the unusual breadth combined with depth of this program, which made it so long, was Alain Renoir’s fault. This Renoir was the son of the filmmaker and the grandson of … More Alain Renoir
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