…homologar la tortura y el genocidio a las generalidades de la Neurosis traumática es desconocer su especificidad, la que radica en que es otro humano –un semejante– el que tramita racionalmente nuestro oprobio o destrucción. A partir de allí –y a perpetuidad–, la pregunta de quién es el prójimo se planteará sin cesar con otra … More Marcelo Viñar
I am mortally offended and in touch with many years of anger. I see who and what I am dealing with. I am not sure what to do. Two have resigned, and four are considering it. Ride it out, says another colleague. Perhaps, but the big change for me is that I see we are … More …with a wild surmise
…it seemed that if we could only decide who Vallejo was we might know what his poems mean. Was this so and if it was, were we just falling prey to some form of the intentional fallacy? Not necessarily. It was that these poems were coming from a uneven, multi-leveled and multilayered collage of contexts, only some of … More Vallejo, el extranjero
Dear Z, Now that I have seen the madre patria I have a different and deeper understanding of you. I have much to recount, but I am distracted by the beauty of this place. — and I have spent a truly glorious day after the interview in — and later in —. We stopped for drinks … More An e-mail I received
People do not realize that many decades ago at Berkeley they decided freshman composition should also be given by (many) departments other than English. They have it in Rhetoric, Dramatic Art, Comparative Literature, and now all of these departments. This means that English is more immune to being asked to staff these courses with adjuncts, … More On the adjunct crisis
One of these is needed. Axé.
I said I would give a senior/graduate level course called Raza y palabra, on race and writing in Spain and Latin America, 1486-2014. This happened in a flash of inspiration and I do not now remember my concept clearly. The title is entirely too ambitious, and there is entirely too much potential material. I must … More Mon cours
→It is the gaslighting and the undermining, even more than the lack of a research culture. My claustrophobia. I did not say this myself, but someone else said my problem was having to work at too low a level. (He said something much blunter than that, about having to work “seven categories” beneath my capability.) I … More Just to be sure I remember…
It might be that this is where I would have to live, if I get and take Job #1. It is extremely expensive but everything that looks reasonable in that town has hidden costs or if not, is entirely too depressing (as in, I would rather stay here and leave the profession than move there and live … More Housing, and budgeting, and negotiating
Today we announced to each other that the problem is the infantilization and the undermining: they will not recognize our expertise. Talking to them is nearly impossible since the people they think they are talking to, are not us, but some suspicious and conniving, deceptive characters who have in essence faked our advanced degrees. We … More The gaslighting, el resplandor
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