Here is some of something I said on e-mail today: I am trying to understand how two circuits of signification, despite disarticulation at some levels, connect (and connect they do): (a) different definitions of race and the racial, different formations of racial meaning in different places, and (b) race and the world system, where things … More El público
I keep working, but everything takes longer than planned and I am behind. There is a lot to do still today and a long day tomorrow. THURSDAY Early: Write Charles and Chris; change cell phone service. 9-6: Meeting, then prepare and teach, half an hour for lunch. Late: Finish and distribute minutes from meeting; finally … More Thursday and Friday plans, and beyond
I wrote this about six weeks ago and programmed it to come up today in case I still wanted to hear it. I cannot believe I actually wrote this so recently, but I did. Here is a hilarious critique of The Artist’s Way. I agree in substance although at the moment the excessive coddling Cameron recommends … More Protegerse
He should have done better. His case is one of the most egregious Vichy State has had. The Federal government also appears to have complained that Raymond Seed and his team did not cooperate well enough in the Katrina cover-up and threatened to pull funding from Berkeley, but Berkeley was a better jouster. Axé.
For the rain there is nothing like huaynos. If I were to be in Mexico City this summer, which I now apparently am not, I would go Sunday mornings to the market in Santa María la Ribera. I would have herbs and shrimp and wine and blast charango music through the courtyard while cooking, impressing … More La magia del vinyl
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This article is turning into a discussion of several theorists, mostly not in literature, who say race is constitutive of modernity. If race is constitutive of modernity, there are definite limits to the liberal critique of racism, and hierarchies based on race may be made invisible but will not go away. If Latin America is … More That discerning eye
The writing group has talked for two weeks, first about failure and then about success. Upon reflection I notice that I was tracked for failure — it was a foregone conclusion that one would not get an academic job; in graduate school one could see that only white men in certain fields got fellowships, and … More Coda on success and failure
I am looking for and at my old abstracts and unfinished and abandoned articles and chapters. I do not like to do this because of the circumstances under which I abandoned each one; I do not want to be reminded. Now, however, under a mandate not to succumb to recriminations, “why did you not,” and … More How (and how not) to work
Educated in Rome and New York, he is known for his semiorthodox views on the use of condoms, saying that married couples could possibly use them to prevent infection when one partner is H.I.V.-positive, although he has also defended Pope Benedict’s remark that condom use increases the risk of AIDS spreading. Axé.
