I am glad to be able to travel so much but I wish it took less thought. Since getting back from California it has taken a whole day to fully figure out how to do a weekend of professional travel to Washington, and another to Atlanta. It takes thought because it has to be done … More 1er. monde
1/ All institutions need more tenure track hires. That doesn’t mean everyone has to emphasize research to the exclusion of everything else; it means everyone deserves to be on some form of tenure track. 2/ If you have your NTT people on FTE, with benefits, pensions, offices, telephones, and representation in shared governance, that is … More An argument I will not have again
Clearly, I worked too hard too late yesterday. I knew I was exhausting myself, and I am exhausted. This morning I have lolled about, reading news and e-mail. Today I will make three phone calls and work out, and work for fifteen minutes. This should put me in shape again. Axé.
After sleeping late and reading news, I worked on travel plans for a conference and wrote 150 words of a proposal. I wrote two letters that needed writing, and I will make two phone calls and work out tonight. Update: what I really did was add 580 words to the proposal and hit submit. Moral … More And so
The book Campo de guerra. Sergio González Rodríguez. Corporate curricula. Puerto Rico. Territories in resistance. Axé.
I’d like to read this McGuigan book, but I do not want to buy it, and we do not have it, and the next university only has it in e-format, and only for its own faculty and students, so the following university is the place. Note that that university is also the richest. Don’t let … More Neoliberal culture
Clarissa is posting on Wendy Brown who, as we know, is a major critic of the privatization of the University of California as well as one who shows what neoliberal values have done to everything. Newfield, and my colleagues, want to reclaim the idea of the public good, and the public for that matter, and … More After neoliberalism?
These keywords and key phrases: violation of academic freedom, discrimination, and inadequate consideration of case. Axé.
1996, F. Unzueta, and I need to see it. It is not here, and it would cost $40 to buy used, so I will actually use interlibrary loan. I had forgotten I was looking for this article by Lee Skinner several years ago and that I had it; now I have read it. National identities … More La imaginación histórica y el romance nacional; Martyrs of Miscegenation
I keep not doing all I hope to, but I do hope to go and get this book from the library, Freedom Time. Axé.
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