The association of race and national identity, and the supposition that race-based inequality in our societies is a superficial rather than a fundamental flaw, are so naturalized by now that it is worth asking again: What is race? What are racialism and racism? What is their relation to the new nation-states? In the United States, … More 161
… those hope-snuffing purgatories of endless disinformative “therapy” groups … how you were allowed to frame your reality … some sham “disease,” #OccupyHE #Occupy the Democratic Party … if you have the stomach for it Axé.
This is very interesting. In the wake of Snowden’s revelations we should leave the Internet and start interacting in the flesh once again. This way we get away from the panopticon and the government. Do you notice how aggressively we are pushed to communicate by electronic means? Face-to-face and other non-electronic communication is considered bad … More Ackerman: let’s leave the Internet
Rousseau in the Discourse on Arts and Sciences: Considering the dreadful disorders which printing has already caused in Europe and judging the future by the progress which evil makes day by day, we can readily predict that sovereigns will not delay in taking as many pains to ban this terrible art from their states as … More “The Glenn Beck of the Eighteenth Century”
Axé.
This is a revision, based on comments made by the editors, of the essay I ran here earlier, “On democracy, economy, and the rise and fall of the MOOC.” The disappearing public university I I teach Latin American literature and culture in a public research university that, having lost half its state funding over the … More The disappearing public university
Professor Zero: Reading comments on news items I have come up with this insight: the reason people keep complaining about “welfare queens” and also “Obama voters” as non-workers it is costing us all our vacation time to support, and so, on, is SLAVERY. 1. In fact the riches of the US were built on slavery, … More On attitudes toward race and poverty in “America”…
In the library I will find Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body. Changó, el gran putas, I will read it. I will listen to voicemail again, and write María Estela. I will continue reading student work and reorganizing computer files. I will go to my CSA, take the car in, and see about both New Orleans … More Le Week, encore
I started out as Professor Zero, writing in memory of Paulo Freire, and became Miclantecuhtli. Now I am the coldhearted scientist, Occupying higher education. I used to say Axé but now I may say #OccupyHE. #OccupyHE. Axé.
I submitted my op-ed to the New York Times as per Dame Eleanor Hull’s desire, so we will see what comes next. If they say nothing by the end of the week, I will be asking where to send it next; it started out as a guest post for a blog. I also have page … More On the global financial system, or capitalism as organized crime
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