I I detect in one teaching statement the key words INTEGRITY, DIGNITY, CONVICTION, and COMMITMENT. This is in response to the all too many compromises one makes, in the interest of bringing together different disciplines, “learning styles,” sub-disciplines, points of view, and so on – compromises which can lead to the creation not of an … More Three Parts
This video is marvelous and wild, and I would love to hear your comments on its discourse and ways of constructing its object. Axé.
ACADEMIA I have criticized Robert Boice’s writings on writing not for their actual content but because, I have said, they speak to people who do not know how to set up a writing program and need to know, or people who do not like to write and need to discover a way to write nevertheless. … More Balance. A Manifesto in Fragments
Every morning I face the debris of the life I allowed Reeducation to destroy. Some days it is more difficult than others and today is a difficult day. I have some points to make for this reason. 1. This is not a fully new insight but it is freshly said. Reeducation’s values involved “accepting” unacceptable … More Random Notes on Reeducation
REEDUCATION Distant traffic hums in the early morning just as it did where I grew up, near but not too near to the highway. I like it because it is the sound of eternity, the sound of the universe. It causes me to wake up happy but I still have to remember not to censor … More Dat Whiteman, or, It Ain’t the Race, It’s the Gender
Now we will take notes on Christina Crosby, “Writer’s Block, Merit, and the Market: Working in the University of Excellence,” College English 65:6 (July 2003): 626-645. Perhaps I shall cross post these notes at my seminar. * Why do professors have trouble writing, and suffer with it? * Because by writing they enter into a … More Christina Crosby
At Thanksgiving Maman, meaning Grandmother, made comments in French about the sillier of the grandchildren, who voted for McCain. Grandmother is a nice white lady from the bad old days. She is convinced those days would have returned had we not voted for Barack. * It was in the late eighties that I became a … More C’est si simple
Thanksgiving was charming but also sad, insofar as the cars of the hosts are not reliable. In the absence of public transportation they are not easily able to leave their rice field. We need public transportation, Barack! I I am interested in my argument with the Dutchman first, because (a) it starts with the use … More Frisian Implications: World Without Context
I should really go to sleep and I will, but I think I have finally grasped a model. In early Reeducation, PZ: This seems dangerous. You would like me to renounce thoughts, which you view as delusions, feelings, which you call instincts, because you are sure my ‘instincts’ are poorly trained, and discernment, which you … More On the Psyche
Seu Jorge and Ana Carolina are not Reeducated, they are free. One of the important things I study so as to repair myself from Reeducation is how not to take things to heart. In Reeducation one had to take everything to heart because it was supposed one did not feel, and needed to learn how. … More Seu Jorge e Ana Carolina
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