This is one of the longest and most unwieldy anti-Reeducation posts I wrote in July. If you are tired of the topic I recommend my favorite recent post, New Orleans Noir. Also, nobody has commented on Puden, partly because it is strange and partly because it is in Danish. It is, however, there to be … More The Book on Reeducation
A friend of mine who is a department chair is irritated at one of her assistant professors because he teaches extra courses, sometimes at night and sometimes in summer. This is to finance his professional travel and equipment, which are not provided by the university, and which cannot be financed through grants because granting agencies … More American Illusions
Elena Garro returned as a writer after being silenced and then resisting this imposition through the deployment of an active silence, over a period of thirteen years. That is inspiring. However, Rip van Winkle woke up after sleeping for twelve years, and I have been comparing my sleep of Reeducation to his. This blog points … More On Odysseus and the Gods
I Long ago someone I knew made a diagram of the graduate programs in which his wife and her friends, of whom I was one, were studying. The diagram drew and explained the parallels between these programs and the branch of the military they most resembled. The military parallel for my program was the Marines, … More On Becoming a Professor
In her article on the semiotics of guilt in Garro’s work, Ana Bundgard asserts that falling into guilt is transgression and rupture, a necessary evil for anyone who aspires to status as subject. By taking on the role of writer, Lelinca carries a burden of guilt that represents rupture from the paradise of the patriarchal … More Ana Bundgard
Cross posted at Seminario Permanente de Teoría y Crítica: In [a book] [a critic] distinguishes between silencing, a condition imposed from outside, and silence freely chosen. She further suggests that the latter can take two forms: using silence as a weapon or breaking silence with hipocrisy. The interplay between silencing and silence . . . … More Elena Garro
FIRST HEAD And the theme of this weekend is, it seems, Against Artificial Limits. Now I am in a restaurant in a town not my own, because there is a café in this town I had been eyeing as a good writing cafe. I finally decided to try it out, and the experiment failed. Although … More Two-Headed Post
I Do you get a huge rush when you realize, in the text you are composing, that the next paragraph will be your last? Is this moment thrilling to you because you are now about to see the work go through its penultimate metamorphosis, break free from the stone from which it has been carved, … More Tao Te Ching
Since classes started I no longer feel pressured to enjoy myself. Oddly, this is making me more relaxed. I am spending more late afternoons at the swimming pool than I did during the summer, for instance. And I may give up on attending Rising Tide this weekend, as I cannot really afford a weekend in … More A x é
Scholarly There is a difference, says Sabato, between being eclectic or scattered, and being interested in a field as a whole, or in the interrelations of its parts. I would add that there is a difference between this – to which Sabato has referred as “integralismo” – and the thinness of being a so-called generalist. … More Sobre el integralismo
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