…terror about extreme violence which my doing serious research and writing did at one time provoke. My irrational feeling is that I will keep life and limb together if I am not seen in process and if it doesn’t take time from other things. Coming up with offprints is fine, but one must not be … More This is what it is
Goal: find files, put things in order, really start to write. Actually: I put in the time but the way I used it is, I found one file so rich I just read it and am rereading book it is based on, which is kind of a motherlode book as I now understand. In the … More El writing group
Questions of space and time were issues in all the texts I taught today, in three different classes on three different things. I feel behind on work, and the students feel behind on Spanish and on general knowledge. At the same time the authors of the texts we are reading, and the characters in them … More On modernism
“She has an uncanny ability to filter my ideas through her own and make me see what I am really doing.” –Jonathan (most recently). Discuss. This is actually a comment I have gotten several times on student evaluations. It is also the reason people in other disciplines sometimes name me in acknowledgements on the basis … More On interpretation
Modernism in literature is (often) the effort of a national elite to develop a theory of national identity that is both modern and traditionalist, that negotiates claims of exceptionalism / universality. Modernism is distinctively peripheral, not prototypically metropolitan, in that it is interested in those romantic notions of identity that are more distinctive around the … More Wir sind soweit
→ Kraniauskas essay in the Archivos edition of El Señor Presidente. This book is not about the origins of the state but its nationalization. I have never read it but now want to. It is avant-garde and about the state, so I cannot lose. → Misplaced ideas. Roberto Schwarz came up with this term and … More Fragments, and a proto-theory of Spain
This course is needed since Mexico has such a distorted and poor image, but apart from that there is so much material. We could look at Mexican and foreign theories. We could examine calaveras and decipher the china poblana. We could read Monsiváis and much more. This would also be a good course for study abroad. I could teach … More Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness
Jueves será, porque hoy, jueves, que proso estos versos, los húmeros me he puesto a la mala… I am not counting any of the attempts at work I did last night as work time because I was too tired and incoherent, so yesterday had 6 hours. I think I might be getting sick, horrors. Thursday … More Lo que va de jueves
In a week I spend much less time working than I had thought, because a great deal of the work I do — work that blends somehow into university work — is actually on house and family. And almost all my work at work goes to teaching. I had thought the drain from research time … More Work tracking, day 7
For quite some time, unknown to most of the general public and even many doctors, researchers have used a variety of methods to test the serotonin (and other neurotransmitter) imbalance theory of depression. Research methods included comparing serotonin metabolites in depressed and nondepressed people, and depleting serotonin levels through a variety of means and then … More On why it is important to know people who are intellectually oriented and can evaluate research
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