Quelqu’un nous a dit: Lund’s thesis is interesting, but its has some flaws because it understands liberalism in a XX century way. The contradiction between capitalism vs. liberalism (popular sovereignty vs. capitalist expansion) is just too reductive. During all the XIX century there were debates about popular sovereign and the legitimacy of politics and violent … More A comment on Lund
I woke up yesterday happy but terror grew as the day went on. The terror: If I do not show I am curbing my research orientation by cheerfully engaging in extra service, I will be killed. I am in a state of sin by not being oriented toward lower and intermediate level teaching and if … More Managing terror
“There is something very fundamentally wrong with you and the proof of it is that you do not see it.” That is the kernel version of the Reeducated message and it is why I became afraid to even move, and wanted to get to another planet entirely. At the same time the opposite cant was: … More Y la última gota
I cannot find the sketch I made for that course so I only know its (then) title. I will not order books now — one can always get books and I will create a reading list as I keep working on my project. I will give the class as an almost history class and it … More The latest version
As we move to the entrepreneurial model of the university and serve students as customers, some would excise them from committees where they traditionally sat as part of shared governance. Lacking professional expertise in the matters at hand they will not be able to enhance “effectiveness.” Axé.
State income tax Cell phone saga Make sure that payment got there Move funds from savings bank to regular bank (Monday) Telephone messages NEH + 1 e-mail AP Conference Vita 1 letter of recommendation Annual report — to include Honors Convocation & internal funding Books FA 2013 Grade Post to three course websites Read for … More Tonight through Monday night
What if it is not “I hurt them terribly, in ways it was not fair of me to do and that still cause them daily pain, by being research oriented” — as I have always said since I accepted this as truth and repented for having disbelieved it for so long ago — but the … More Internalization
My fall class is extravagantly called States of Ruin: Violence and Identity in Latin American Literature 1810-1930 and I cannot find the abstract or the reading list, so must reconstruct. It is being given under a culture rubric and I think it is being cross listed with several programs, such that it has to be … More Háblenme
…my overarching structure and thread. While others talk about mestizaje and nation (and hybrid cultures) I am interested in race and the state. Looking at the same works through this [prism] gives other readings, readings that do not paper over violence and disjunction as much as do the more conciliatory mestizaje/nation theories. These never really … More Voici
I do not yet fully understand this and do not have time now to figure it out but watch the situation with EOServe and Southern University. Axé.
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