I am not going out on any limb for any student of any kind, ever again. They can be abused, stalked, whatever, by other faculty and I will not stand up for them. The reason is that every person I have ever really stood up for, and sacrificed for (because the system does abuse you … More In which I have had it
Axé.
90-100: good grammar, good content80: has the required length and has both content and a concept of grammar60: you appear to have read, and you are writing, but only a little and with many errors50: you appear to have read, but you are not able to write in a way someone who didn’t speak English … More Those cheating grades
Yes. Axé.
As we know, the things I dislike about academic advice is that it always involves going faster and faster, to do more and more. Do this for 15 minutes! Then go on to do another thing for 15 minutes! Switch ever faster from one task to the next! Never polish anything to completion, just call … More Almost the last post on academic advice
Moro: planned the translation and translated two lines. Learned about Aldo Pellegrini. Tried to contact Marco Rivera for a joint reading at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. I could invite him to NOPF, and Guillermo Parra. I must get in touch with Jesús. And I should write the Moro article. LASA 2026: worked … More What I did today
Now I will read some articles from Social Discourse, a journal issue I have been carrying around and not reading since 1989. It was my contention that writers of the teens and twenties were saying interesting things about subjectivity way before Foucault and others got into it, and we know this since the later 20th … More Sobre el sujeto…toward Moro and LASA
“El gran Marcelo Bielsa dejó explicado que no hay nada peor que el éxito de un mal ejemplo: no hay problema si un buen proceso fracasa, porque es algo habitual; el problema aparece cuando un proceso mal planteado es exitoso y lanza el mensaje de que un atajo puede llevarte a un buen lugar. Porque … More Paraguayan Radio
The Enchantress of Florence. The mob went after Machiavelli when he lost power “These people were good people, thought il Machia, these few people of his own, but in general the people of Florence were traitors. It was the people who had betrayed the republic and invited the Medici back. The people whom he had … More The enchantress of Florence
Feeling coerced, rushed. Disbelieved, mistrusted. Many mundane demands, many destructive people to satisfy. Many with needs greater than my own, many people hurt by luminosity. I must self-mutilate to fit in or I will not be safe. Joy and optimism are crushed and called insane or hurtful here. I feel Irritation, boredom, anger, fear, regret, … More My emotions around work
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