My student gave an excellent presentation on Frida Kahlo and decoloniality, with a stellar explanation of Mignolo’s ideas. What the audience said: Student A: We are all becoming small versions of Professor Zero. Student B: Somos los hijos de la Z. Z: Ay, qué horror. Students: No es un horror, es bueno. #OccupyHE. Axé.
Actually heard: We cannot hire because anyone qualified would not come here unless they had severe emotional problems. #OccupyHE. Axé.
We are to see this. I have seen Muscle Shoals and Twelve Years a Slave and preferred the former, which makes me a lightweight. Axé.
1932. Axé.
I have not seen Twelve Years a Slave yet, but I am substituting it. Axé.
I do not know things, so I did not know about this by Borges, but I need it for my LASA piece. Mignolo discusses it on page 129 of La idea de América Latina. (Do you see that I am doing research again?) Axé.
When I know enough to truly understand this essay, I will consider myself educated. Think of the darkness and the great cold In this valley, which resounds with misery. – Brecht, Threepenny Opera Fustel de Coulanges recommended to the historian, that if he wished to reexperience an epoch, he should remove everything he knows about … More Afsnit syv
Look. My research interests are not out of date at all and there are grants in my home town for these — although I think they are limited to UC faculty. Still, I think I should find a way to go hang out in S.B. sometime. The next time I go to San Francisco, I … More Things I could do with a good vita
This conversation is surely worth watching. Axé.
I will submit paper #2 to that journal. I will finish paper #1 and send it somewhere. I will write that op-ed and send it to The Nation. I have two book reviews to finish. I must also write this paper, although I do not have complete control of the material yet. Finishing paper #1 … More L’écriture
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