I ordered Through a Lens Darkly, the DVD, and I should see again: Ethnic Notions and Color Adjustment. These are all about race and representation. Rey talked about the militarization of plantation slavery in Cuba and penal servitude in Puerto Rico; plantation slavery resembled penal servitude. We’ll continue. Axé.
This project brings up so much pain and I do not manage it well, do not handle it well, don’t treat myself well, perhaps. I can stop if I don’t think about deadlines, only about doing something now, and don’t require myself to think destructively. This is how I used to be — before I … More And a third
And she was executed, after torture, one hundred years ago tomorrow. She hated Prussian men. In this rentrée, how many of your departments were threatened with loss of program? It happens to us every third year or so and it is very unsettling. I am sure it is a tactic designed to throw us off … More Rosa Luxemburg suffered more, and accomplished more in less time
1/ All institutions need more tenure track hires. That doesn’t mean everyone has to emphasize research to the exclusion of everything else; it means everyone deserves to be on some form of tenure track. 2/ If you have your NTT people on FTE, with benefits, pensions, offices, telephones, and representation in shared governance, that is … More An argument I will not have again
Clearly, I worked too hard too late yesterday. I knew I was exhausting myself, and I am exhausted. This morning I have lolled about, reading news and e-mail. Today I will make three phone calls and work out, and work for fifteen minutes. This should put me in shape again. Axé.
After sleeping late and reading news, I worked on travel plans for a conference and wrote 150 words of a proposal. I wrote two letters that needed writing, and I will make two phone calls and work out tonight. Update: what I really did was add 580 words to the proposal and hit submit. Moral … More And so
I’d like to read this McGuigan book, but I do not want to buy it, and we do not have it, and the next university only has it in e-format, and only for its own faculty and students, so the following university is the place. Note that that university is also the richest. Don’t let … More Neoliberal culture
Clarissa is posting on Wendy Brown who, as we know, is a major critic of the privatization of the University of California as well as one who shows what neoliberal values have done to everything. Newfield, and my colleagues, want to reclaim the idea of the public good, and the public for that matter, and … More After neoliberalism?
These keywords and key phrases: violation of academic freedom, discrimination, and inadequate consideration of case. Axé.
If you have to teach grammar, here is how you peg concepts to popular song lyrics. They have already figured out which song works best for what. Axé.
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