Writing goal for finals week
30/04/2018
Locate draft manuscript and open it. I am not joking, this is my writing goal for the whole week. Otherwise my goal is to grade in an organized and sane way. Axé.
Category: Working
Very important!
21/04/2018
I found some fragmentary notes from an old meeting that should have been followed up upon. 1. Our financial situation is not that bad (although we have contracted notable debt, and we appear to have mysterious overseas donors) 2. Data is reported strangely 3. We spend a great deal on sports, buildings and administration 4. … More Very important!
This is a thoughtful comment
19/04/2018
On this post. I agree with what Paula Krebs says here. It has certainly become impossible to justify the expense of holding first round interviews at MLA, especially given the likelihood of travel disruptions due to weather, which add an entirely new layer of stress to the process. At bottom, this argument is about cost-savings, … More This is a thoughtful comment
Marc B.
18/04/2018
I would like to write on his Facebook feed, where he is ranting about “morally panicked literature professors” — That’s ridiculous, and actually the reactions to tv when it came in were more subtle and interesting (I notice you don’t mention it). I am tired of having students who can’t read but are only trained … More Marc B.
Nostalgia
17/04/2018
What I miss about the jobs I have had in R-1 institutions is feeling like an adult. You work calmly with adults. Elsewhere being constantly badgered, accused, pulled down, yelled at, interrupted, and having to work through the frantic irrationality of others really drains and disorients me because it activates the traumatized state of childhood, … More Nostalgia
Des nouvelles
11/04/2018
I have decided I will not be so self-destructive and that I will put aside fear — and also guilt / shame. These last will not be replaced with paranoia or a “the hell with them” attitude, either, but with fearlessness and therefore empathy. Axé.
Books and journals going now
30/03/2018
…because they are just too tattered, they are depressing me. They are wonderful and epoch-making as well, and I hate to let them go since they are like limbs. They are: New German Critique 22 (Winter 1981), special issue on Modernism. Articles by Habermas, Giddens, Bürger, Huyssen, Nägele, Bainard Cowan, Michael Ryan, more. Revista Iberoamericana … More Books and journals going now
I will
26/03/2018
Grade Post to Moodle Get mail Buy paint Go to appointment #1 Go to work group, there to write letters of recommendation Go to gym. What I want to do is keep writing. I’ve spent a lot of time on research and writing lately and it is good for me, but I am terrified someone … More I will
Writing about the university as a site of class struggle
15/03/2018
The new (and last) piece will follow on this one and will start out talking about the question of trust and solidarity: do we really have these, are we really one faculty? Part of why we are not is hierarchical management and part of it is that in situations where basic survival is at stake, … More Writing about the university as a site of class struggle
An answer to my other post
13/03/2018
My third post to this blog of a professional organization could start out talking about the argument I had with New Faculty Majority people, about adjunctification and related matters. They kept saying they did not want tenure, only long contracts and good pay, and that people like me were utterly antiquated, unfair, and “tone deaf” … More An answer to my other post
