As we move to the entrepreneurial model of the university and serve students as customers, some would excise them from committees where they traditionally sat as part of shared governance. Lacking professional expertise in the matters at hand they will not be able to enhance “effectiveness.” Axé.
What if it is not “I hurt them terribly, in ways it was not fair of me to do and that still cause them daily pain, by being research oriented” — as I have always said since I accepted this as truth and repented for having disbelieved it for so long ago — but the … More Internalization
I do not yet fully understand this and do not have time now to figure it out but watch the situation with EOServe and Southern University. Axé.
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
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
If your conscience tells you one thing, and the Holy Father through the authority of the Magisterium has determined something else, then it is not your conscience against the hierarchy; there is actually, beneath what you think is your conscience, your real conscience which must, because you’re made by God, understand already, that you’re wrong. … More The Grand Inquisitor
I could do a series of interesting, mostly modernist paintings on this. One about being invaded, run over, chased across a field, cut down with a shovel (although in some dreams I make it across the border). A Cézanne, perhaps. Another about being in the Reeducation camp, perhaps by Klee (I would like to go … More On physical space
This is my last illumination for the night, from Wogglebug who has led us to a new consideration of verbal violence. From a certain point on (Reeducation, to be exact, which disallowed one from drawing a boundary around the violent world and putting it in its place, which is the best way to clear one’s … More On writing and verbal violence
Because they are terrified preachers: fire and brimstone, how bad the world is; because they are grand inquisitors. Because they are unrelenting torture victims; because they are lying in vats of burning oil, and stretching out their hands to pull us in. Because they will not be satisfied until we join them in death and … More I dislike professors…
