Werner Herzog eats his shoe
14/03/2015
This is worth seeing every little once in a while. Axé.
Month: March 2015
Good and bad news: evaluations
12/03/2015
“Takes pride in teaching well, and makes it a point to meet students where they are. This is good; unfortunately, it is rare.” I am not sure what to think. Can this really be so rare? Axé.
Further nadería
11/03/2015
El yo no existe. Schopenhauer, que parece arrimarse muchas veces a esa opinión la desmiente tácitamente, otras tantas, no sé si adrede o si forzado a ello por esa basta y zafia metafísica -o más bien ametafísica-, que acecha en los principios mismos del lenguaje. Empero, y pese a tal disparidad, hay un lugar en … More Further nadería
Mejoré, but this morning…
10/03/2015
Tension physical pain headache fatigue sorrow regret anger nostalgia depression desire claustrophobia frustration oppression … these were some of my feelings last night and this morning. Then there is this: When I was teaching — especially at the University of Oregon and the University of Texas — my experience was always defined by limits. How … More Mejoré, but this morning…
Hybridity in the word mestizaje
09/03/2015
A través de un análisis genealógico de los términos mestizo y mestizaje, este artículo revela que dichos vocablos son doblemente híbridos. Por un lado, ellos albergan la hibridez empírica construida sobre taxonomías raciales de los siglos XVIII y XIX, según las cuales los «mestizos» son individuos no indígenas, resultado de la mezcla biológica o cultural. … More Hybridity in the word mestizaje
Henequén as social actor: dos lunas en Yucatán
07/03/2015
Mérida: my favorite city in Spain and also Mexico, and perhaps one day in Venezuela. Octavio Paz wrote a beautiful essay on it in 1937 and I would like to read this discussion of it on paper. Paz: Mérida, la ciudad moderna, dulce y clara, es el henequén. La vida. La muerte de los campesinos. … More Henequén as social actor: dos lunas en Yucatán
Diego, Frida, and Leon in Mexico, 1938
05/03/2015
Axé.
Zotero
04/03/2015
I have removed everything I have from the cumbersome Endnote and placed it in the virtuous Zotero, and that is how things will be. I will place things from the Seminario there, and from Evernote. I have become quite serious and will become moreso. I have not yet discovered whether I like Scrivener but I … More Zotero
A curious conversation
04/03/2015
I must renounce fretting over my participation in our foreign language program for Lent at least, and ideally forever. In relation to my distress over this, however, I had a strange conversation today. I am told that most faculty became faculty because they loved their professors as undergraduates and wanted to be just like them, … More A curious conversation
Góngora 1594
02/03/2015
DE UN CAMINANTE ENFERMO QUE SE ENAMORÓ DONDE FUE HOSPEDADO Descaminado, enfermo, peregrino en tenebrosa noche, con pie incierto la confusión pisando del desierto, voces en vano dio, pasos sin tino. Repetido latir, si no vecino, distinto, oyó de can siempre despierto, y en pastoral albergue mal cubierto piedad halló, si no halló camino. Salió … More Góngora 1594
coldhearted scientist وداد 