Sobre Chile
06/02/2014
…the atavistic Catholic-fascist ideas underpinning the Pinochet dictatorship, in conjunction with the forces of US neoliberalism, produced the norms that govern the world today. Study and quote. Axé.
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Afsnit elleve
05/02/2014
The conformism which has dwelt within social democracy from the very beginning rests not merely on its political tactics, but also on its economic conceptions. It is a fundamental cause of the later collapse. There is nothing which has corrupted the German working-class so much as the opinion that they were swimming with the tide. … More Afsnit elleve
Sunday meditation…
02/02/2014
It is possible to live yet better, in my case largely by not staying up so late and going running more regularly. Yesterday, though, I planted trees along the Bayou Teche and went swimming. The ride along the levee was beautiful. Then I looked I at my citation statistics for annual review and realized that … More Sunday meditation…
On “policing the norms of academia”
01/02/2014
At last I understand academic advice: it is not advice at all, it is a speech act undertaken to police the norms of academia. This phrase was invented by one of my reader-friends, who noticed that the Tenured Radical was upset today with Sarah Kendzior for speaking clearly, and not in the terribly indirect way … More On “policing the norms of academia”
12 Pluviôse
01/02/2014
It was the evenness that they did not like, that seemed like an affront. They believed in suffering and relief. (I always feel I must go somewhere I feel I cannot be found if I want to enact that apparently criminal evenness.) (If I am visible then I must be seen to suffer because if … More 12 Pluviôse
Winter Storm Leon
29/01/2014
This is alleged to be a picture rejected by Fox News, showing Louisiana National Guardsmen spreading salt on the roads by hand, due to the state’s lack of general preparedness and also funding. A friend wrote: Nobody says this in the reports I have seen so far, but it is blatantly obvious to me that … More Winter Storm Leon
The morning in review
26/01/2014
(It is possible to live yet better.) I woke up thinking of the career diagnosis test I took last night, which told me I should be, most obviously, a neuropsychologist, and if not, a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, a sociologist or a political scientist. It did not say I should not be what I am, … More The morning in review
Au matin
25/01/2014
It is possible to live yet better. Still — I am now in a position to say I love my job. This is because I am able, this semester, to teach as I see fit. Perhaps this can last. Someone reminded me of the most devastating of the sentences we had to absorb in Reeducation: … More Au matin
The endless winter sun
23/01/2014
…is appreciated. It is possible to live yet better. I love my job because I am barely teaching to any aspect of the language requirement and thus, barely using any textbook-company generated books. I am severely traumatized, I am told, by the language requirement courses here and the politics around them. I know I was … More The endless winter sun
JLB and don Américo
20/01/2014
A comienzos de 1923, Borges solicita al Decano de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Ricardo Rojas, su ingreso a esa casa de estudios. En su intento tardío (tenía 23 años) de participar del ámbito académico como alumno, además de adjuntar una serie de “ensayos estéticos y metafísicos” a través de los que aspira a … More JLB and don Américo
coldhearted scientist وداد 