I have said it before but it bears emphasizing: when I write my academic advice book, if I ever do, it will not take as its point of departure the idea that the reader lacks discipline or does not know how to work. My book will not be a self-improvement book. It will be about … More On professionalization
Fíjense en lo que dice Ricardo Palma: “The principal cause of the great defeat is that the majority of Peru is composed of that wretched and degraded race that we once attempted to dignify and ennoble. The Indian lacks patriotic sense; he is born enemy of the white and of the man of the coast. … More Facebook is refusing to post
Here is something about academic advice that I would rather write about over here, since I am supposed to write an alternative advice book one day. What is one advising on? I seek advice on how to remain myself in atmospheres which actively militate against it. How to remember it is actually good to have an … More Une de mes belles perceptions
My friend from elementary school is starting to hike the John Muir Trail today, and Jonathan Mayhew is in Barcelona, and I envy both locations. Regular presence in locations of interest is the main thing I have renounced and it was not worth it, Rebecca. I did not know in graduate school what the situation … More Hans Scherfig
A few months ago, it was announced [Who announced? Change to active voice?] that massive open online courses, or MOOCs, would soon solve the crisis in higher education by replacing traditional universities. With their advent costs would fall, quality would soar, and access to learning would be greatly expanded. But soon, the discussion shifted. Now, … More Edited slice
This must be cut to 600 words. It may need another title, and it needs sculpting: there are too many ideas. Tell me what you think; then I will tell you what I was asked to do. Then, we will all compromise. I will be grateful, and so will Remaking the University. On democracy, economy, … More Essay draft, 1481 words. Comments required.
Tell me anything you know about Ricardo Rivera Aybar. I really need to know. My notes on one novel, taken in a sleepy library, are: Lucanor Arias y Reynaldos, early colonizer, goes with 5 ships, and does not realize he will found a variegated tribe, a family tree with many different branches. He leaves Spain … More El reino de Mandinga
I have always considered myself preacademic in some way, but perhaps it is really postacademic — and perhaps neither pre- nor post- has to do with time … they could be currents. Postmodernism, Calinescu said, is a movement within modernism, so… I would rather live in California, but I did not relate at all to … More Things to consider
Page 79 is where she says Isaacs’ novel is “atypical” in its anti-mestizaje stance. On page 80 she says romance was used as a figure for national unity although not equality. I do not think it is accurate to put a writer like Alencar in the same basket as Villaverde. Alencar (O Guaraní) talks about … More More things wrong with Doris Sommer’s book
…would look at the research university conceived as support of industry, with an emphasis on “productivity.” I am not at all opposed to work and production and I favor more of these and not less, but in this the product gets a distorted emphasis. The student’s putative need for improved study methods is conflated with … More An academic study of academic advice
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