1/ That AAUP grant report. Evans’ flight was $628 and his hotel was $349. We had planned on $943 and spent $977. That is what I think it was. I need to make this grant report.
2/ These headaches. I think they are repressed anger, frustration, lack of support, and also ANTI-SUPPORT, and from not being definite in my support of self. That last is important. I want a disciplined life so I can be a goddess, not an oppressed one that makes me a worm, and I think what I should do is tell my department I am a fucking goddess and they should shut up.
3/ Antenor Orrego on Vallejo. He has this whole book, Hacia un humanismo americano, where you can see where Larrea got a lot of his ideas. It actually reminds me a lot of Vasconcelos. My MLA paper could be about these ethno-nationalisms, yes! [And for another paper, think about Moro, Molina, Westphalen, Cardoza y Aragón, there’s a lot to say here, with a side of Paz and Pellegrini]
4/ About accreditation: state-run accreditation is not independent of politics in the state, and dropping an agency is a risk to the reputatin of the university. Accreditation reform is to foment curriculum reform, and CPHE is not a good actor. It’s important to get the word out before a new agency takes on a new client, and institutional autonomy is the key.
5/ This prologue to Nebrija’s prologue, in a 2016 PMLA, is worth rereading, and it would fit with the MLA abstract.
6/ Chávez on what the US hates: communities of care and the demanding of rights. The six pillars (of the free academy) are DEI, the CRT that allegedly undergirds it, tenure, shared governance, student protestors, and the federal funding infrastructure. Also, compact agreements and accreditation are both really important. One should meet with one’s president’s governmental relations officer and understand their strategy, and build relationships with staff in local offices of each legislator. We need very clear, brief talking points. In general, AAUP shuld identify its principles and values, what it is willing to do; then it should get a media and PR strategy, and it should write op-eds. Reach out to place these.
7/ For teaching, Aira, El congreso literario. Actually, Anthony presented on this, it was interesting.
8/ On incarceration: criminal justice is a racialized system of control, said Bill Quigley one day. The domestic war on crime is part of the global war on drugs and terror. It is a technology of domination for capture, immobilization, dehumanization, and liquidation. This system must be uprooted, not reformed. The state defines crime, and the criminal code is [what binds? I need the right term here] the public and the state. (The criminal code is itself a technology of control, I discern.)
9/ There’s a film by Christine Lahti, maybe this one (on justice), although I am not sure. I should see films by or with her in general, I have seen none.
10/ On gaslighting, “This is what a pretend life looks like, and if you are not living a pretend life, your life is not real.”
11/ Cancel Atresmedia for sure, and maybe MUBI (I’m ambivalent).
12/ Do I do at work what my mother said about marriage? Put up with too much, because it is supporting you?
13/ I need an air compressor, a jack, a trailer hitch, and a kayak trailer.
14/ Leslie Harris also said something about how to find out whether or not quadroon balls were real. Did they really happen? Not as we were told. There’s more to say about it (the thing is that they weren’t real in the plaçage sense.)
15/ On Mignolo.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 