I literally need shots for COVID, flu, and pneumonia, and should remember. In the meantime, there is also this, from a friend: “The state has gone all in on workforce preparation as their central model, and don’t agree that research or excellence do anything to help that. Universities as centers of innovation and economic development … More Inoculation
“The rural bars that played the music were not exactly accepting of all peoples. Living in New Iberia for over a decade now has really opened my eyes to the horrific inequality that exists. Both the poor and wealthy white here propagate violent white nationalism. The justice system (under a very religious Catholic majority) allows … More On Cajun culture, from a friend
…but is this too violent? Abuse and misogyny are endemic in Cajun culture. If you do not know this, it is because you are sheltered. That is why the idealization of this culture in the tourist literature—that many now take for academic history–is intolerable to me. Do not sing me one more damned song. * … More I want to say it on Facebook…
It’s something along those lines, the task I was set. Prove to us that you have not stolen from us and you do not look down on us! And the burden of guilt dogs me every day, and I must prove these things so as to earn decent working conditions. The important thing to realize … More That unpayable debt
So many of the problems I have and have had, have had to do with abusive techniques of enforcing misogyny that I didn’t recognize for what they were. So many of the solutions I have had recommended to me were solutions designed for privileged,. mediocre white men. [And the happiness industry depoliticizes completely, and decontextualizes … More Fragmentary
“First, workers are alienated from the product of their labour. What they create does not belong to them, but to the owners of capital. The products of work confront workers as something external and powerful, appearing in the form of commodities, profits, and wealth controlled by others. The more workers produce, the poorer they become … More Academic efficiency under capitalism
Politically, one of the things to which I most object to in the white grievance narrative that is cajunismo — and that interestingly, is deployed the most by older men and certain emotionally deprived teen-boys (and I will note that it is a masculinist narrative, you don’t hear women singing it) — is its appropriation … More Enemistad
These are disabling to contend with, and the energy they take makes it hard to move ahead, especially when the statement comes from someone in power and thus has effects on a collective reality. That is why they cannot be entertained or tolerated. Logistically, that’s difficult, but failure to do it leads to block. Axé.
“What is negative in ethics refers therefore less to a normative, moral injunction than to the effect of – moral and cognitive – paralysis and blockage that often comes as a result of a hurt, a shock, an act of violence, despair and disenchantment or just by intense tedium. Negative passions destroy the self’s capacity to act as they … More On Deleuze/Guattari
Coda on my Dec. 21 meltdown: the town is icky, there are icky people in it, one of their spawn (parents are in 70s, so kid is 40s now) is brought to my house and acts icky, I lose it at him, and then I feel I misbehaved? I feel I have made a major … More It is real
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