“It does seem to make some pointed analyses of contemporary culture. I’d say teach it, along with something like Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes by Jacques Ellul or maybe something a little more recent by Chomsky. You could add another book or short selections by Neil Postman or more contemporary media theorists, and then … More Teaching los detectives salvajes
I put in a funding request for the speaker, and a room reservation request. As a result, I must now find and fill out five different forms (so far). I must also make parking and food/lunch arrangements, and make flyers and send them all around. There are numerous other bureaucratic tasks like this this week, … More A lovely new log
I saw this poem in The Nation and was impressed. This is the author and he’s not even from abroad, I thought he would be some fancy person from abroad but he’s U.S. and younger. I learned in that issue about an Egyptian poet, Iman Mersal. In the end that is why I still subscribe … More Hanif Abudurraquib
We have to get this book. I discovered it by procrastinating while trying to think about Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and it does have directly to do with Cortés, even though I did not find it through a search on him but while avoiding doing one. It’s synchronicity, serendipitous. I discovered it via this article. … More On Savage Shores
Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are something I actually want to read. They fit my projects, too, but that is secondary. I’ve had a very interesting adventure with this book. I discovered a photocopy of part of it, made when it was new, in connection with an article on television and traditional narrative I should have finished. … More Prison Notebooks, and Michael Roemer
1/ Twice in graduate school, on papers where it wasn’t really I who had chosen the topic, and I had serious trouble making the topics I had work 2/ The same thing, with that book manuscript 3/ From trying to “manage time” when time management was not the issue (and note: “managing time” means not … More Times I have difficulty with schoolwork
Here is an interesting piece by Kristeva. I’ve not seriously read Proust, have never had the time, or relaxation, or patience, or freedom he requires. Perhaps I will change. Reading Proust is like all projects at the beginning. They seem opaque, amorphous. Language are like that. Clay is. Music is. I am only just learning … More Proust
The things I’m recycling are things for work from long ago, when I couldn’t work. I couldn’t look at them for a long time because they brought me face to face with what was happening then and because I so missed the person I had been before. Now that I am partly revived I can … More Signs of Love
In fact, this bedroom would be a pleasant office. I would turn the desk inward, to face the sunroom And I would not line the walls with books. Perhaps Turkish hangings I could use the red office chair And place a couch along the wall, perhaps. I. That wistfulness. I still wish for any one … More Red Wheelbarrow
Cha-ching! Unbelievably, our library gives us access to The Veil of Moses: Jewish Themes in Russian Literature of the Romantic Era. I was even going to check into the possibility of buying it (although I wouldn’t have, it’s 211 USD). The chapter on Russian Jews in the 1840s brought me to the book, but the … More The Veil of Moses
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