Henry Giroux
30/10/2013
Resistance is no longer an option, it is a necessity. That is the last line of a very good essay you should read slowly. #OccupyHE. Axé.
Category: Movement
Los puntos negros de la academia
23/10/2013
Otro tema que el estudio del FCCT revela es la pérdida de solidaridad entre colegas y el surgimiento del individualismo como valor dominante entre los investigadores. Esto se debe en buena medida a la exacerbación del elitismo y del sentido de privilegio particularmente en las universidades con la aceptación de puntismo, que ha generado una … More Los puntos negros de la academia
Academy Fight Song
22/10/2013
“There is zero solidarity in a meritocracy, even a fake one, as the anthropologist Sarah Kendzior demonstrates in a recent series of hard-hitting articles on the adjunct situation. Just about everyone in academia believes that they were the smartest kid in their class, the one with the good grades and the awesome test scores. They believe, by … More Academy Fight Song
Afsnit fem
12/10/2013
The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognizability, is the past to be held fast. “The truth will not run away from us” – this remark by Gottfried Keller denotes the exact place where historical materialism breaks through historicism’s picture of history. … More Afsnit fem
Kevin Cope on the funding crisis: watch.
06/10/2013
#OccupyHE. Axé.
C’est intéressant
20/09/2013
Today I was asked whether I knew of a university police officer who might take certain crimes against (usually) women seriously, so I went into the file on my former stalker to retrieve the name. In this process I glanced over part of the file, and saw things I had forgotten. For instance, my stalker … More C’est intéressant
“I realized I was not the next Foucault”
18/09/2013
That was a sentence the younger professors in my graduate program reiterated quite often, as a pedagogical remark. They had apparently thought they were “the next Foucault” and discovered this was not the case, and had had a difficult adjustment to a more modest reality. Their point was that we should not imagine we were … More “I realized I was not the next Foucault”
Huey Long and Castro Carazo
15/09/2013
Here we have a marvelous artifact. Castro Carazo, the author of this song, was the LSU band leader hired by our man Huey. Axé.
“Es sólo un viaje, Saúl”
14/09/2013
ES SOLO UN VIAJE, SAUL, LO OTRO NO ES CIERTO. (Para Saúl Landau, con admiración y cariño) →No es cierto, Saúl, no lo repitas. Ya sé, otros también lo dicen, pero no es cierto. Hay dolor en la voz de Carmen cuando me responde el teléfono, pero no puede ser cierto. →Me dirás que sí, … More “Es sólo un viaje, Saúl”
A good essay
31/08/2013
. . . a broadly anti-intellectual professionalizing atmosphere that is inimical to the long, slow life of sustained thinking and unwilling to support it, with, I think, terrible consequences for the humanities—tellingly, the most productive scholars in my department have won multiple external fellowships that keep them away from campus; an administration that is indifferent … More A good essay
coldhearted scientist وداد 