In the September/October SIERRA, Paul Rauber’s article on/review of carbon imprint calculators is of very great interest! I did one of these before but I do not know how good it was. It said we would need 5 earths if everyone lived like me. It seems that the Berkeley Institute of the environment, at coolclimate.berkeley.edu, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays: Carbon Imprint Calculators
I really am almost finished transforming back. I think. To continue to transform back I would like to say that what Reeducation did was take a distorting picture of one’s moment of trauma and say: This is the real you. Admit that it is the real you. And you had to start living as that … More On Transformation
Now animated by a yogic comment from Hattie, I can keep on saying things and drawing pictures, these always having been some of my first goals in life. The immediate additional causes of my current malaise: a) so many students, including graduate students, need remedial work, but we are keeping up a certain fiction … … More On Precariousness and Destabilization
Voy a hablar de la esperanza. HOY SUFRO SOLAMENTE As we know, I am a working man, although if I were a male academic I might not have all the same duties as I do. That, precisely, is why I am a working man in old fashioned terms: a working man works on an assembly … More Voy a hablar de la esperanza
You have to save your seeds. People are not taught this in school and it is very, very important. And it is a really beautiful day, like summer in Los Angeles, sparkling. The sky breathes soft winds at a temperature of 84 degrees, so it is cool enough to go outside. * As we know, … More On Saving Seeds
This is the first day of Fall, the best season. I always liked Fall but in Louisiana it is truly stellar because there is a day in early Fall when the humidity leaves the air. This lowers the heat index greatly and it becomes possible to go outdoors. The month of October is as cool … More World Traffic Survey, and AIDESEP
As the assiduous reader will know, this weblog exists so that I can extirpate from myself that whiteman’s voice and rediscover my own. It is, in other words, a playground in which I am learning for the second or third time in life not to be cruel to myself. One of the ways I am … More Mountains, Winds, and Seas
I clearly do not know myself at all. A student whose pedagogical project I am supervising says I have a strong interest in pedagogy. I have always denied this, originally out of the fear of being designated for a pink collar job, but I see his point. This is quite interesting. Perhaps I have not … More Station Break
A. I was taught that in academia, you had to do things halfheartedly to survive. You must just walk through teaching, since you will not get credit for it; you must write a great deal, but always acceptably bland things, so as to have a form and type of production conventional enough to pass; you … More Full On
I have now finished writing a series of texts which could become a manuscript. They are not yet a manuscript, and may not be suitable as an academic manuscript, but they are what I have been writing since I got back from Peru. I started this file long ago and worked on it occasionally, but … More Pour-soi
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