And in fact I did little, but I did: Decide I have done enough research for this paper, even if there are blind spots in my work, and I will just write it up and that is it, the heck with everything. Definitively decide about my hedge: all I need for now are three Green … More Today I thought I did nothing
Inviting a consul can go beyond a reception. It can be a community event with the Consul and her or his staff speaking to students and faculty, the local business community, immigrant organizations, and so on. A Consul can explain international trade, education abroad opportunities, food, and cultural exchanges … give a great deal of … More That consular visit
I thought I was just puttering around, rereading Adrienne Rich because someone sent me that essay, and reading about Oswaldo Costa because this article popped up, but actually: they are for my paper. Anzaldúa is a lesbian writer and following Rich, that is more important than her just being a defender of all supposedly “marginal” … More Compulsory heterosexuality and alternative anthropophagy
Here’s a good list of things people undertaking research, need and should do: 1. have knowledge of what a research question is; 2. have basic subject knowledge in a chosen topic area, e.g., its major research questions; 3. develop a capacity for being interested in questions where the answer is nonobvious; 4. have the ability to … More Undergraduate and other research
This book is open access and I am in love with that. And I’ve got a co-translator now for that project, a powerful one, and a press says they’ll take the book. We have not yet seen the contract, but I suppose we will get one. I got really mad at the university and envious … More World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality
(According to Reeducation, your baseline should be that you are too unhappy to function and your goal should be to function minimally nonetheless, or attain feelings of happiness, just for the day. Before Reeducation I did not think a great deal about happiness, although I was happy most of the time. If your baseline is … More An earlier work plan
If I think it should be a junior level course, it should be senior / early graduate. This one would be on monuments. Each monument studied would lead to the study of many related things, and one would study their processes of fetichization (I have not worked this out very well yet). Some of the … More Para una clase de cultura más avanzada
That is a class one could give, and discuss modernity. Or it could be a broader course, with Baudelaire in Paris, and more: writers in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Petrograd. Maybe I can make all my courses like this now. Axé.
I was only there for 8 hours. It was a bright fall day on a pretty campus, where people are present and energetic. I want to read Poétique de la relation and find out what a dépassement is. I had an illuminating discussion with someone at a parallel institution in a state next door. She … More Things I learned at a conference
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