Sunday: located the abstract I wrote and didn’t use, to revamp for the MLA. My goal this week is to work on this abstract so now I have done one thing toward that. Also this week I must do more toward that speaker, and work on syllabi and exams. Re syllabi, one is the Bolaño … More Log 18-23 February

I have had a hard time the last couple of days, I wanted to take them off but it seemed I couldn’t get a cat sitter, so I engaged in heavy procrastination. Or did I? I read a lot of news and thought about it, and I enjoyed that, actually, although I felt I should … More Luz Gambás

I should read Enrique Serna. Axé.

I put in a funding request for the speaker, and a room reservation request. As a result, I must now find and fill out five different forms (so far). I must also make parking and food/lunch arrangements, and make flyers and send them all around. There are numerous other bureaucratic tasks like this this week, … More A lovely new log

1/ Twice in graduate school, on papers where it wasn’t really I who had chosen the topic, and I had serious trouble making the topics I had work 2/ The same thing, with that book manuscript 3/ From trying to “manage time” when time management was not the issue (and note: “managing time” means not … More Times I have difficulty with schoolwork

The things I’m recycling are things for work from long ago, when I couldn’t work. I couldn’t look at them for a long time because they brought me face to face with what was happening then and because I so missed the person I had been before. Now that I am partly revived I can … More Signs of Love

In fact, this bedroom would be a pleasant office. I would turn the desk inward, to face the sunroom And I would not line the walls with books. Perhaps Turkish hangings I could use the red office chair And place a couch along the wall, perhaps. I. That wistfulness. I still wish for any one … More Red Wheelbarrow

Cha-ching! Unbelievably, our library gives us access to The Veil of Moses: Jewish Themes in Russian Literature of the Romantic Era. I was even going to check into the possibility of buying it (although I wouldn’t have, it’s 211 USD). The chapter on Russian Jews in the 1840s brought me to the book, but the … More The Veil of Moses

I read at Twenty Theses on Politics and Subjectivity because it has things on theory and praxis, and on the subject. I do not have full patience for philosophy, a fact that makes my life difficult. In it, however, I discovered the existence of Badiou’s Theory of the Subject, which originally came out in 1982. … More Bosteels, Badiou