Alice has reminded me of some advice to new faculty I gave her. I had forgotten it and seeing it again now, I realize it really is good advice and it is not covered in most advice books, which as I keep saying are largely about time and task management. I will repeat it here, … More Underground advice to new faculty
Note to self: I must find and set up in Scrivener all my most recently abandoned essays. The two I have been working on are the oldest and are the origins of my present project, and there are many in the middle. But before I go to those or compose any new material I should … More Rusia en 1928
I. 40 HOUR SCHEDULE I am allowed to work more, but not to displace any of the research or exercise time set out here. My book, whose focus has been wavering between race and the state and which is about the intertwining of these of course, but does not want to look at literature just … More Twelfth Night
The 2010 poverty rate of Peru was 31.3% according to census authorities there. The US Census reports a 19.2 rate for Louisiana in the same year. Alaska is at 7% and Denmark, 13%. These figures may mean less than they appear to do. It is a dark and stormy night, and silent too. After this … More Peru
At my university the work week is traditionally 60 hours. When I got here there were still TIME CLOCKS as relics; now we are not thinking of things in terms of time spent as much. Part of the 60 hours was working on your broader formation. Time spent reading things related to field but not … More The 40 hour week
While I was walking over to pick up the car I realized how I became phobic over writing as an act: in Reeducation we had to write things out over and over again, making long confessions of flaws and past errors, reinterpreting ourselves to a certain paradigm. I did not want to do this because … More Reyes
“There is nothing like having risked your life with people over something immensely important to you.” —Guyot I am obsessed with civil rights because I associated it with school. It was the big event of the day when I started. School was freedom in itself, and freedom was also taking place. This is the feeling … More Lawrence Guyot
The list does keep changing slightly but the number keeps being four. 1. The present book, on race. 2. Cane Cultures. 3. Vallejo — intellectual and cultural biography. 4. Vallejo — fractured subjectivity. When I think about these in a practical sense there are more, since every essay in the present book leads to other … More Books for me to write
Today I will track down the car and pick up the vegetables, and I will also choose at least one thing from this list. My writing group has started and I have to work 25 minutes on research. I also get to work 2 hours on syllabi, although since it is the weekend I am … More Saturday
On the idea that you should not have done your degree if you are not willing to take just any academic job, so long as it is on the tenure track, even a great sacrificer and penitent like César Vallejo did not stay in Lima but went to Paris. This was a career move for … More On some things that are not true
