Literary bondage
19/10/2018
I have to check out and reread this book. Axé.
Author: Iansã
Películas
19/10/2018
An unscientific survey of students revealed these as their favorite films in Spanish. I haven’t seen them all, and some of those I have, I have not seen in a long time. But it is a rather good list. 21 gramos Azul y no tan rosa Babel Biútiful Hable con ella María llena de gracia … More Películas
Race, the floating signifier (1996) — the beginning of a handout for class
19/10/2018
It is by Stuart Hall and it is a key text. I find myself caring about structuralism and poststructuralism as never before. But this is a q/d handout for the students. Floating signifier in Oxford Reference: A signifier without a specific signified (see sign). Also known as an ‘empty signifier’, it is a signifier that … More Race, the floating signifier (1996) — the beginning of a handout for class
Diferenciando
14/10/2018
Remember our football players, saying rude things about a political candidate in the locker room when they did not know they could be heard? That is what I would call free speech in the first place, and youthful high jinks at worst. Yet they did not get away with it, and it is possible some … More Diferenciando
On the corporatization
12/10/2018
…and adjunctification. Part-time faculty and academic values. Patrick O’Donnell’s bibliography (very comprehensive, with many important-sounding titles I did not know of or am not familiar enough with). KEY is that the institutions are not OK (note how the Wall Street Journal has endorsed torture supporter and Amazon Basin destroyer Bolsonaro for President of Brazil, for … More On the corporatization
“Opportunity cost?”
09/10/2018
So I have a truly major speaker coming, a project I did not think would be a good use of my time but that others wanted done, and they have now quit their roles in making the event truly happen well. On the other hand, I am being told I am doing a wonderful job … More “Opportunity cost?”
Plus jamais
08/10/2018
Something I really dislike that men do at work is go into hysterical fits about how the institution is dying and only I can help save it, beg me to help them with a major institution-saving project, convince me to commit to it 50%, and then forget about their 50% … and THEN act irritated … More Plus jamais
Emotions around this project and related ones
06/10/2018
…that make me want to avoid it. Shame, which causes lethargy and withdrawal, which causes avoidance. Meanwhile, more interestingly: …trauma, anger, repression, self-recrimination, rebellion, claustrophobia, impatience, restlessness, desire to explore, desire to live, desire not to be entombed …I really need to unpack all of this. Axé.
Podem-me prender, and so on
06/10/2018
Here are 45 pages on Trump’s tax fraud case in New York. Meanwhile, I am trying to work on my much more mundane activism cases. I have these notes: The AAUP, if it goes into a “death spiral,” will not do so for lack of money but because people leading it do not admit how … More Podem-me prender, and so on
C’était quoi?
05/10/2018
Kavanaugh and his friends say it doesn’t matter, these things don’t matter, they’re rites of passage for men, and they say this while, in some cases, also defending rights of rapists to prevent their victims from aborting. It’s the whole package that has people disgusted. I do tend to agree that K.’s record, and the … More C’était quoi?
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