Category: Questions

On grades

25/11/2013

Here is a bell curve.  I could use it. I could also have: 20% W and F, 20% D, 20% C, 20% B, and 20% A. This would up my grades, and be nicer than a bell curve since more people would have A than F. Not that it will help you at all, but … More On grades

Des fragments Cécilia

24/11/2013

What was I thinking about when I wrote these things down? Manzano’s Autobiography of a Slave Solás’1981 Cecilia Sibylle Fischer’s 2005 introduction to Lane’s translation of Cecilia (I think it discusses the certificate of whiteness; in any case, I have this book); it also says other tings I like Lamore’s introduction to the 2004 Cátedra … More Des fragments Cécilia

The most amazing job ad ever

24/11/2013

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Professor of Liberal Arts (Open Rank) “The college seeks a candidate who is closely attentive to the artistry in a work of literature-its imagery, nuance, tone, ambiguity, and language-rather than to the work as a text for political or ideological polemic.” “Requirements: Publications in peer-reviewed journals of literature and/or … More The most amazing job ad ever

Into month four

18/11/2013

I have now been un-depressed for over three months and the way to become un-depressed is to resist oppression. I am not entirely there yet: it took all Sunday to submit an article and all of today to work on my vita, a project with which I am still not finished; these were in fact … More Into month four

Going to Chicago

17/11/2013

Now I will be in Chicago May 21-24, and maybe a little more. Where shall we go out? Katerina’s The Checkerboard Where do you go, and what wonderful classical concerts will there be? Axé.

Un misterio

03/11/2013

I am teaching two sections of Spanish 3. Students have no aural comprehension of Spanish, no speaking ability, no sense of syntax, and very little ability to read the readings in the textbook, which is a common textbook they are using for the third semester in a row. Some of them say that in their … More Un misterio

Paradigm, episteme

20/10/2013

I must be in different ones. People, it seems, have decided they must learn to relinquish “control,” and I suppose they are right, but I need to exert more of it. They also need better self-discipline, they are sure, but I do not. I do wonder where they learned to sing this song, more self-discipline … More Paradigm, episteme

Afsnit fire

10/10/2013

Seek for food and clothing first, then the Kingdom of God shall be added unto you. –Hegel, 1807 The class struggle, which is always present to a historian influenced by Marx, is a fight for the crude and material things without which no refined and spiritual things could exist. Nevertheless, it is not in the … More Afsnit fire