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On metrics, voice, and academic advice

21/02/2026

This is a draft/outline, and it will morph. This goes to the What is a Scholar posts. Axé.

Not on Facebook

16/02/2026

Now that I am speaking so openly, and feeling much more like a living person than a voice from beyond the grave, I might as well continue. The really difficult thing about being in Spanish in my department has been that French meets, so French knows what it is doing and knows what the university … More Not on Facebook

Daddy: on Cándido Gamboa and Epstein

16/02/2026

Read Melinda Cooper on Epstein and patriarchy. Cándido Gamboa, business and the family, owning all the women. This, too, is a place to start. There is also a connection to the university: capturing a resource, a state asset, to use for the family business. “Just as Epstein wanted to close off all escape routes to … More Daddy: on Cándido Gamboa and Epstein

Voice

07/02/2026

Today I yelped in pain all day on Facebook and it seems to have helped. It all comes down to: I can’t allow myself to serve infirm entities, or sacrifice identity for them (my mother, BJA, to some extent ISB, RSA, Xica, other minor instances, but my mother, Barry, and I guess Terry Mayers, come … More Voice

Today

05/02/2026

Clarifying even more: you’re an American, and you have a Ph.D., and you speak Spanish, and we hate all of that, and it hurts us personally, and you need to try to understand that. THIS was the message and I, sincere to a fault, tried to understand it, allow for it, heal it. In the … More Today

Sobre nacionalismos

03/02/2026

I need to develop thought on catalanisme, Catalan nationalism, its liberating and repressive dimensions. This, and the way brasilidade is articulated and sold (especially in Bahia), would be interesting points of comparison to cajunismo (by which I mean to indicate not Cajun culture tout court/altogether, but the fetishization of it that has been developed and … More Sobre nacionalismos

That astrological reading

31/01/2026

A reminder. A Capricorn life is work and doing heavy lifting for others, without gratitude. But love and esthetics are important and must be honored. With Gemini rising, it is important to choose the discomfort of concentration. Do not let other people dissipate your life, and do not allow them to interrupt work. Gemini rising … More That astrological reading

Inoculation

28/01/2026

I literally need shots for COVID, flu, and pneumonia, and should remember. In the meantime, there is also this, from a friend: “The state has gone all in on workforce preparation as their central model, and don’t agree that research or excellence do anything to help that. Universities as centers of innovation and economic development … More Inoculation

My research project

13/01/2026

That feeling when you realize everything around you is designed to align your perspective with that of authority. It’s what I realized this month about Cajun culture, how the attempt to be kind to it and enjoy it is wrongheaded, I cannot make peace with it and it can never include me, because it is … More My research project

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