We are no longer a university, we are a corporation. Evidence is in every detail: the bus no longer takes standing passengers; it is now forbidden to write in chalk on the sidewalk. The university will close in 15-20 years, based on the current rate of non-replacement of FTEs. Before the advent of e-mail, how … More Things students said, and asked today. Things I thought.
In the last NEH seminar I attended there was a Brazilian scholar who gave a talk about the African cultural origins of “our Negroes,” as she said. White Brazilian scholars and European scholars of Brazil are very concerned about the negative influence Black persons and movements from the United States and, to some extent, the … More Sobre la expresión “nuestros negros”
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Foods I have eaten since arriving in New Orleans are: – seafood gumbo – shrimp remoulade – trout with crabmeat Foods remaining to be eaten are: – sausage and rabbit jambalaya – seafood omelette po-boy – shrimp grillade If you are perceptive, you will see the Spanishness of all this. Axé.
Hattie says the problem with academic advice is the either/or thinking. This is a very good analysis. Just because I am delivering the final blows to my enemy, academic anti-advice, don’t think I am not on vacation — I am. Now, I am on the back patio of this precise building. Can you place it? … More En ville
I really will have to write my manual since I have so much to say. The question on advice is, what are the motives of the advisor? 1/ Sharing, and money. They are willing to sell expertise. Fair enough. 2/ Things people wish they had known: they wish to share experience and views. Of interest. … More Categories of academic advice
Here is what Rob Brezsny has to say to me this week — fortunately since I am going on vacation for FOUR DAYS, during which I will only do teaching related activity and no research. Let the boundaries blur a bit. Don’t stick too rigidly to the strict definitions. Play around with some good old-fashioned … More Still more on academic advice
“Yeah, it’s as though the law nominally exists for us, but is held from us at the same time.” There is something about this. It is my evoke-and-elide thesis again. Things exist yet do not, and this appears to be a characteristic of modern states. I do not understand it yet but much of what … More Modernity and the law
The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as are their proclamations that the mestizo is superior rather than degraded. The mestizo nation of … More Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words
The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as is their reading of mixture to have produced a superior, and not degraded or derivative … More 157 revised, and still not excellent words
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