I woke up this morning realizing it was the King holiday and that in my life, this holiday is more important than traditional holidays like Christmas. I woke up thinking about real life. I woke up this morning thinking about real life and how we can reach out and touch it now. This is the … More La vida real
This post follows the discussion on competition and I came up with it as I tried to figure out how to reorganize my files so as to work better, and considered programs like Scrivener. I saw that Scrivener is a wiki, which is why I find it attractive; it has a sidebar that you can … More You and your career as a wiki
People talk about liberating themselves by recycling their paper files, but what about computer files? It is not just that I have half of mine in one cloud and half in the other. It is that several times, due to computer emergencies, I have transferred files chaotically over the years. For example: within Dropbox there … More On files
My problem is not that I am not using Scrivener, or that half my files are in the Ubuntu cloud and the other half in Dropbox. My problem is that I am acting in it the way I have been taught to act by Reeducation, of which one part is daily life at my current … More How to organize my manuscript
I woke up this morning thinking of a friend I made in college. We were friendly in classes but became friends one day when we coincided at the pool and fell into conversation about other things. That was so long ago. It was when university gyms still issued their faded swimsuits. Really skilful women could … More Hoy es domingo, y por eso
1. I was always warned in graduate school that if I got an academic job I would not get to teach foreign languages because the T.A.’s would do it, and also that I should not construct myself as someone who likes it, anyway, because to get a tenure track job you had to construct yourself … More On militant Hispanism
I used to give the culture class as an issues-in-culture class and it was good, but now I am giving it as a true cultural studies class and it is outright exciting, partly because it is so theoretically precise. Here is the issue: I have a curriculum. The administration now says that since it is … More On disciplines
It is said that everyone is competing but I think they are competing down, not up. They are competing for towel space on a crowded beach, as it were. But if you go out past the bathers and through the waves, there are only a few swimmers in the clear water. There is space for … More On competition
Incarcerated as it were, imprisoned in images from long ago, I have been trying to think my way out of it. As children we were not allowed to develop any skills seriously — we should perform well for others, yes, but only as long as we remained amateurs. As adults, can we not go further? … More Fabrication defect
I woke up this morning thinking how ridiculous it is that I still devour my own flesh like the vulture that eats Prometheus’ liver each day, and noticing that it is now just within my power not to do it. Of course if I did not spend as much time virtually murdering myself and then … More Time time time
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