Intencionario. Quiero abatir la excepcional preeminencia que hoy suele adjudicarse al yo: empeño a cuya realización me espolea una certidumbre firmísima, y no el capricho de ejecutar una zalagarda ideológica o atolondrada travesura del intelecto. Pienso probar que la personalidad es una trasoñación, consentida por el engreimiento y el hábito, mas sin estribaderos metafísicos ni … More La nadería de la personalidad
Carl Djerassi died today. Look at his life and look at this — artist residencies we must be selected for. I think it is interesting how he allowed himself to do so many things in life. I identify. We were not supposed to do so many things because we were not considered talented enough and also … More Carl Djerassi
We have the responsibility to teach them how literary language is working, from simple literary examples, building onward to more complex texts. We have to teach them about what figurative language is, how it determines or opens semantic conditions; we have to teach them about accretion and resonance developing over time across sentences, paragraphs, pages. … More Une amie a dit
We must study this. Axé.
One of the best media critics is Karl Kraus, whose Last Days of Mankind satirized the Viennese of his day in their love of gossip and gossip dressed up as news. Coffeeshops were abuzz with the latest rumors and disasters, culminating in the disaster of WW I. What I always remember from this play, a … More The past resembles the present
It’s interesting how relativist arguments get used in apologetics for institutions that claim to have had the absolute truth always and forever. C’est le post du jour et c’est très important. Axé.
There was something I heard from an unexpected quarter about nation and state as separate things, or things working separately, and that I would like to reencounter. I saw a film of an anti-MOOC symposium in which a literature professor talked about the large, live lecture as a way to model close reading and to … More Cette semaine
I may not work hard enough, but I am very intelligent and I am surely the only one who will illuminate Elena Poniatowska’s Querido Diego with Nick Cave: But the peculiar magic of the love song, if it has the heart to do it, is that it endures where the object of the song does … More Voici my teaching unit
A related feature of the abstract image—one which may make it increasingly attractive to poets—is that abstract statement permits a far wider range of subject matter than we generally find in a poem dependent entirely upon occasion. The emotional range, the subject matter of poems based upon a particular occasion—on a dramatic situation or incident—is … More More Holden
My classes were brilliant today, and charming. #OccupyHE Axé.
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