I came up with that title for a possible paper long ago and I am looking for the abstract which I know I have. Here is a psychoanalytic-style paper on part of the problematic. Our hero’s separation from the beloved is his Oedipal moment and the whole landscape is suffused with pre-Oedipal desire. I would … More “Gendered Mirrors and Racial Difference…”
This is Las hurdes or Terre sans pain (1933), by Luis Buñuel. We are going to see it in my class on modern Spanish literature. It is very interesting and engages questions of civilization and barbarism, modernity and the primitive, city and country, center and margin. It is a documentary but as cinematography it is experimental, … More Las Hurdes
I do not know how I came upon this piece as I was doing something else but it appears that orphanhood is what generates the novel. Vallejo, as we know, kept saying he was an orphan and I do not have a lot of patience with complaints from persons orphaned as adults, or with persons … More On Vallejo, Heidegger, and my other project
I woke up this morning realizing it was the King holiday and that in my life, this holiday is more important than traditional holidays like Christmas. I woke up thinking about real life. I woke up this morning thinking about real life and how we can reach out and touch it now. This is the … More La vida real
This post follows the discussion on competition and I came up with it as I tried to figure out how to reorganize my files so as to work better, and considered programs like Scrivener. I saw that Scrivener is a wiki, which is why I find it attractive; it has a sidebar that you can … More You and your career as a wiki
My problem is not that I am not using Scrivener, or that half my files are in the Ubuntu cloud and the other half in Dropbox. My problem is that I am acting in it the way I have been taught to act by Reeducation, of which one part is daily life at my current … More How to organize my manuscript
I woke up this morning thinking of a friend I made in college. We were friendly in classes but became friends one day when we coincided at the pool and fell into conversation about other things. That was so long ago. It was when university gyms still issued their faded swimsuits. Really skilful women could … More Hoy es domingo, y por eso
I woke up this morning thinking how ridiculous it is that I still devour my own flesh like the vulture that eats Prometheus’ liver each day, and noticing that it is now just within my power not to do it. Of course if I did not spend as much time virtually murdering myself and then … More Time time time
I do not learn very much by doing so. That is one big reason why. The other reason is that the students in these classes are such black holes for energy. The third reason is the textbook industrial complex which is massive. The fourth reason is that it makes me a soldier in the departmental … More Here is why I do not like to teach foreign languages.
For research today I wanted to cause Scrivener to work and I have failed, although I am convinced it is the answer to many problems. While waiting for it to allegedly compile I looked for music with which I might advertise a course. I want to have this class marketed on the radio, leading in … More Sugar Class
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