This piece has good bibliography. Axé.

This class, book, or series of lectures is very interesting. Another thing discovered recently is the NYT article “What if there is no such thing as closure?” It’s on the concept of ambiguous loss and this is not just an individual thing; the author talks about whole cultures that suffer from this combination of absence … More Romance Studies, and “ambiguous loss”

I like this review so I am reproducing it shamelessly. Remedios Varo. Caminos del conocimiento, la creación y elexilio. María José González Madrid y Rosa Rius Gatell (eds.)Madrid, Eutelequia, 2013, 225 pp. ISBN: 978-84-940412-9-7 Remedios Varo (Anglès, 1908-México, D.F., 1963) saltó a la fama a finales de losaños ochenta tras la publicación de la primera … More Quance on Varo

My abusive colleague called me up to say abusive things, including that since I mostly write in English I’m not competent to teach basic writing in Spanish. So I looked at the things I’ve got in Spanish and decided this review is where I most like my style. It’s true, I should do something with … More Una reseña

Jeg tænker på den skade, det kunne forårsage organisationens kunder, hvis de skulle se dette bestyrelsesmedlems indlæg. Hvordan kunne de stole på at denne organisation har deres bedste interesser på sinde? Jeg forstår ikke engang, hvorfor denne person er i bestyrelsen, hvis de tænker på denne måde. Jeg er bekymret for sabotage. Axé.

Read. And read. Axé.

Silva refers to this piece, it is one of her sources. What Is to Be Done?Author(s): Ruth Wilson GilmoreSource: American Quarterly, June 2011, Vol. 63, No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 245-265Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41237545 This was the keynote speech for ASA and she cites Vijay Prashad, whose book I have … More Gilmore, what is to be done

They, and my prison work, flow together in Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Unions and universities are institutions, and you need forms, and you’ve got to organize. There is more to this but: we lost the revolution, and what was left were the culture wars. And: the anti-state state, and the anti-university university. This is the key … More MLA talk and Ferreira da Silva

Visit Art Attack. Go swimming. Visit museums. See friends. Look for Scandinavian things. Axé.

In the last 24 hours: 1/ The one who put a symposium together all with hard to get contacts that I had gotten for him, and at it, did not mention this. Thanked the Provost for the funding, but not me for putting him in touch with the speakers. 2/ The one who took all … More Sexism among friends