2021
31/12/2020
The blog will turn 15 this year, and I can hardly believe it. In 2021 remember to imagine: no religion, no countries, more justice, more love. Axé.
Month: December 2020
Christmas
24/12/2020
How many countries have you spent Christmas in, besides the United States? I am thinking of this. Let me try to see: Spain (once), Denmark (once), Morocco (once), Mexico (once), Brazil (three times), Guatemala (once), and Chile (once). I think this is all. Axé.
Things I’ll do
22/12/2020
Nathaniel – MLA – ILLI – New Year’s cards Vallejo poem for Pedro Revise that paragraph, putting Felber earlier Everything involving university e-mail and back gmail ODL 200 and the other annual trainings Post office: get a huge envelope, and mail those materials to that guy I won’t necessarily work on classes, but I will … More Things I’ll do
The contact zone
22/12/2020
Something I didn’t take on in this long article I just published was Mary L. Pratt’s concept of the “contact zone,” which I also don’t like. I think it’s too abstract, too totalizing, too asceptic, too fuzzy, and above all, it assumes the existence of no-contact zones. I know, languages in contact, cultures in contact. … More The contact zone
Neoliberal or postmodern things, and the past of the present
21/12/2020
It was in 1964 that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled to allow prisoners to sue on prison conditions. The nation-state cannot tolerate multi-ethnic populations, and this is why there is so much effort toward homogenization. Empires, on the other hand, are easily multi-ethnic. We are currently supposed to say that online courses … More Neoliberal or postmodern things, and the past of the present
Adding to That Prison Paper
20/12/2020
Felber says prison activism was central to the black liberation struggles after the second world war and was MUCH MORE than a result of civil rights workers being held at Parchman; it was not derivative of the civil rights movement. Also, the modern carceral state wasn’t just conservative backlash; it was built in negotiation with … More Adding to That Prison Paper
Bezhat
18/12/2020
This is the most interesting comment I have found on the show. “Behzat Ç. is a not a kind of TV serials which you are familiar with. Its on its best when it makes a balance between your realities and your illusions. A routine story of life goes parallel with the story of pressure which … More Bezhat
Irish Insults
18/12/2020
Luí fada gan faoilte air! Seacht n-aicíd déag agus fiche na hÁirce air! Calcadh fíodáin agus stopainn air! Camroillig agus goile treasna air! An ceas naon air! An Bhuí Chonaill air! Pláigh Lasaras air! Eagnach Job air! Calar na muc air! Snadhm ar bundún air! Galra trua, bios brún, péarsalaí, sioráin, maotháin agus magag air! … More Irish Insults
Standards based grading
18/12/2020
“Standards based grading, gave each of the 5 course objectives 10/100 pts, and said they needed a 70% in each of those to pass. So you could get 100% in all objectives but one, have technically an 80% but if you don’t master documentation and citation, its not happening. It was more fair for me … More Standards based grading
Turkish letters in Unicode
15/12/2020
I have to figure out how to do these on the Macintosh, but: Â ALT 0194 Latin capital letter A with circumflex â ALT 131 or ALT 0226 Latin small letter a with circumflex Ç ALT 128 or ALT 0199 Latin capital letter C with cedilla ç ALT 135 or ALT 0231 Latin small letter … More Turkish letters in Unicode
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