“There is something very fundamentally wrong with you and the proof of it is that you do not see it.” That is the kernel version of the Reeducated message and it is why I became afraid to even move, and wanted to get to another planet entirely. At the same time the opposite cant was: … More Y la última gota
I cannot find the sketch I made for that course so I only know its (then) title. I will not order books now — one can always get books and I will create a reading list as I keep working on my project. I will give the class as an almost history class and it … More The latest version
As we move to the entrepreneurial model of the university and serve students as customers, some would excise them from committees where they traditionally sat as part of shared governance. Lacking professional expertise in the matters at hand they will not be able to enhance “effectiveness.” Axé.
State income tax Cell phone saga Make sure that payment got there Move funds from savings bank to regular bank (Monday) Telephone messages NEH + 1 e-mail AP Conference Vita 1 letter of recommendation Annual report — to include Honors Convocation & internal funding Books FA 2013 Grade Post to three course websites Read for … More Tonight through Monday night
What if it is not “I hurt them terribly, in ways it was not fair of me to do and that still cause them daily pain, by being research oriented” — as I have always said since I accepted this as truth and repented for having disbelieved it for so long ago — but the … More Internalization
My fall class is extravagantly called States of Ruin: Violence and Identity in Latin American Literature 1810-1930 and I cannot find the abstract or the reading list, so must reconstruct. It is being given under a culture rubric and I think it is being cross listed with several programs, such that it has to be … More Háblenme
…my overarching structure and thread. While others talk about mestizaje and nation (and hybrid cultures) I am interested in race and the state. Looking at the same works through this [prism] gives other readings, readings that do not paper over violence and disjunction as much as do the more conciliatory mestizaje/nation theories. These never really … More Voici
I do not yet fully understand this and do not have time now to figure it out but watch the situation with EOServe and Southern University. Axé.
San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, photo from Wikitravel. It was so bright today here that I thought of SS-Donostia. Axé.
En medio de esta decadencia aparente del carácter nacional, se descubren de cuando en cuando ciertas señales de antiguo espíritu; ni puede ser de otro modo: querer que una nación se quede con solas sus propias virtudes y se despoje de sus defectos propios para adquirir en su lugar las virtudes de las extrañas, es … More Carta de Ben-Beley a Nuño
