Here is the topic. I am of course wagged by tails, and to be wagged by a tail is to have the self-absorption of the neurotic. My tails include the idea that I am not self-critical enough, when in fact the opposite is true. My main tail involves the belief that I must mitigate the … More Tails wagging dogs
Postive motivation: I am enjoying this and I wish to continue. Neutral motivation: I want this to be finished, so I will continue. Negative motivation: I must prove myself (and please people), so I will do this. The negative motivation is negative because it assumes one is insufficient. It focuses very heavily on this insufficient … More A hierarchy of motivation
Text by Rimbaud. Axé.
Un fotógrafo que después declaró en Nuremberg. Y como si no fuera suficiente, aquí van los últimos andaluces de Mauthausen. Y una más sobre Boix. Y hay más: el último español de Buchenwald, memorias de Elsa Osaba de Mauthausen, Saturnino Navaso, futbolista de Mauthausen. Axé.
There are so many things about Bourdieu. And Sánchez-Prado has some new edited books coming out: on Mexico and world literature, and Bourdieu and Latin America. The point is that Latin America is so often the beginning point, not the imitator of modern processes, yet the central countries do not recognize this. I said this … More Bourdieu
Graduate: Thank you so much for helping me get this job! Z: I did not help you! I wrote no letter of recommendation, called no contacts, and gave no help writing the cover letter! Graduate: But you helped so much! Z: Well, how did I help? Graduate: When I asked whether you thought I were … More My most common thank-you letter
I told you I should have been a conservationist. I kept saying, this is urgent, and you think I should study the history of western civilization and piano playing so I can become a genteel wife? Russia as a moderate fascist state. Actual diversity work. And more diversity work. Betsy de Vos calls discrimination and … More Encore des articles
For my first voyage, I still need three AMTRAK tickets. For my second voyage I have multiple reservations in Belgium: one in Tournai which must be cancelled, one in Antwerp which must be cancelled, and one in Antwerp which much be shortened. For my third voyage, I need places to stay on the return voyage, … More La liste pour les voyages
I am in the stage of recognizing that she was not, due to the emotional abuse and its profundity, but here is something really good. My mother came from a relatively racist, classist, and anti-Semitic background and rather than propagate that or deny it, she fought against those sentiments and learned to shed them. This … More Some of the ways in which my mother was a good mother
It is hard to write. One of the reasons for this is the number of directions in which it leads. Something I notice in real life, that people do not realize, is in fact how the neo-liberalization works. So we accept “bringing money into the university” as a good thing, without realizing what sponsored research … More That languishing article
