A line
13/07/2015
This is my line in the sand: I can read online for work if I must — even long documents –, and I can read short news articles, but I am not interested in reading books or magazines online for pleasure. Axé.
Category: News
Notes on my notes, perhaps poetic
12/07/2015
The word “offender” What the older white guard said about the roads and Louisiana: that they say there is construction, and that there is the inconvenience of construction, yet there is no actual construction, “is Louisiana” The use of vocabulary that depersonalizes, changes our relationship to ourselves and to reality The only interaction not reduced … More Notes on my notes, perhaps poetic
Foucault, encore
09/07/2015
Our present age of austerity requires of us resilience as a psychological characteristic. University counseling centers now have resilience training, and psychology professors receive major grants to study resilience. But “resilience” studies are not science. We have here, then, one of the examples of commercial activity replacing research in the entrepreneurial university. Foucault appears to … More Foucault, encore
News from the fleecing economy
08/07/2015
Air BnB writes: Hi Z, There’s only one week left for you to secure your spot at Airbnb Open for the early bird price of €220. Starting July 16, the price will increase to €260. Registration includes full access to over 100 classes, talks by influential thought leaders, five meals, a dazzling host awards gala, … More News from the fleecing economy
Por si acaso les pregunten
08/07/2015
Du Bois’s rebuke to Davis’s restored reputation was withering: “Judged by the whole standard of Teutonic civilization,” he concluded, “there is something noble in the figure of Jefferson Davis; and judged by every canon of human justice, there is [also] something fundamentally incomplete about that standard.” The problem, he submitted, lay with the idea of … More Por si acaso les pregunten
Boycott
05/07/2015
According to the Left Business Observer, “the federal prison industry produces 100 percent of all military helmets, war supplies and other equipment. The workers supply 98 percent of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93 percent of paints and paintbrushes; 92 percent of stove assembly; 46 percent of body armor; 36 percent of home … More Boycott
Church burnings
03/07/2015
I had the most terrifying dream. I was to be burnt at the stake. Hitler was in power in the United States and the White Citizens’ Councils were his henchmen. Twelve of us were to be burned at the stake and the technique was, they sewed you, including your head, into a burlap suit and … More Church burnings
Yankee post
01/07/2015
I lost a whole post but it was very interesting on my Yankee roots. It involved my 3x great grandfather the Irish minister and immigrant, an important figure, some of his publications and publications on him, and my exact relation to Lyman Beecher (father of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and an important … More Yankee post
On the “entrepreneurial” model and education as a commodity
26/06/2015
What do I mean by “against students”? By using this expression I am trying to describe a series of speech acts, which consistently position students, or at least specific kinds of students, as a threat to education, to free speech, to civilisation: we might even say, to life itself. In speaking against students, these speech acts also speak for more … More On the “entrepreneurial” model and education as a commodity
Les voyages, et les motivational tricks
06/06/2015
I went to LASA in Puerto Rico and visiting this colony, or country was an interesting experience I have not yet assimilated. I am going to pay for it by grading the AP examination in Louisville, so I will be gone again and in a foreign place again. I repeat that everything in my life … More Les voyages, et les motivational tricks
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