Keywords for the modern subject
21/07/2015
I am interested in this piece. Axé.
Author: Iansã
Thomas Brudholm
19/07/2015
Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a … More Thomas Brudholm
New Orleans Then
19/07/2015
“The campaign on Dryades was calculated to start just before Easter because that’s when people bought lots of clothes,” Elie said. Black students from Xavier, Southern University of New Orleans and Dillard, along with a few white students from Tulane and University of New Orleans, joined picketers on Dryades. In mid-1960, former Xavier student-body head … More New Orleans Then
Bruce Cockburn
14/07/2015
This is The trouble with normal, a 1981 song lyric I did not know. I notice that Cockburn had the same insight I did, then. Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it’s repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic … More Bruce Cockburn
Teresa Buchanan
14/07/2015
Read about her, about Louisiana, and about LSU. Axé.
A line
13/07/2015
This is my line in the sand: I can read online for work if I must — even long documents –, and I can read short news articles, but I am not interested in reading books or magazines online for pleasure. Axé.
Notes on my notes, perhaps poetic
12/07/2015
The word “offender” What the older white guard said about the roads and Louisiana: that they say there is construction, and that there is the inconvenience of construction, yet there is no actual construction, “is Louisiana” The use of vocabulary that depersonalizes, changes our relationship to ourselves and to reality The only interaction not reduced … More Notes on my notes, perhaps poetic
Foucault, encore
09/07/2015
Our present age of austerity requires of us resilience as a psychological characteristic. University counseling centers now have resilience training, and psychology professors receive major grants to study resilience. But “resilience” studies are not science. We have here, then, one of the examples of commercial activity replacing research in the entrepreneurial university. Foucault appears to … More Foucault, encore
Le chant des oiseaux
09/07/2015
Definitely listen to this. When I get my turntable, I will buy it on vinyl. Axé.
Des mots
09/07/2015
When I was a child, I would read fairy tales in which most characters were either royalty or peasants. I did not know the word peasant and misread it as “pheasant.” So I would visualize these tales, in which many characters were pheasants that spoke and lived like people. I imagined the pheasants’ wives and … More Des mots
