Ubuntu drivers
17/04/2017
The weakness of Linux is wi-fi, at least in my experience. I am still trying to get the Ubuntu 16.04 drivers to work correctly. Here is one putative solution. Axé.
Sur l’intersectionalité
13/04/2017
This article against intersectionality and for not just Marxist, but Gramscian feminism, is quite useful. And the dictator novel is about colonialism — and the way to teach it would be with Fanon. These are the kinds of things I like to think about, and do not get to think about enough. Axé.
Film syllabi in Spanish
12/04/2017
I must work out my ideas for a different kind of film course than I have given in the past. Ideally the course will work at two levels. Some students will be working on grammar and vocabulary through film, and others will be doing senior-type work. How to choose the films? Are they: the ones … More Film syllabi in Spanish
Education and Reeducation
11/04/2017
In shorthand. Important to note for this week is how I was taught that normalcy was a façade. In reality we were barely tolerated: we hadn’t been wanted, we were not liked, and it was wished that we would go away. Our successes were events carefully arranged for our amusement by our parents, and if … More Education and Reeducation
Bunk Johnson
03/04/2017
He was from New Iberia, I believe. Axé.
Henry Giroux Today
02/04/2017
Having a bad day today. Maybe the hangover from being denied tenure by the right-wing stooge John Silber, the then president of Boston University, in 1981 still stings. Since those dark days, I have always had some hope in the university, recognizing that it was an important site of struggle and filled with contradictions. I … More Henry Giroux Today
Taganka
30/03/2017
So it is, dear descendants of Alexander Veniaminovich! The evening dedicated to our common ancestor is scheduled for May 24, Wednesday, at 18 o’clock at the House of the Russian Diaspora in Taganka Square, Moscow. There will be invitations. Write here, who and how many people are coming, or send me a personal message. Bring … More Taganka
A flash of insight
30/03/2017
Why did you not ask for advice and information? Because I already knew that my father would not answer such questions. From this I had learned that answers would not be forthcoming from anyone. Axé.
Aleksandr Veniaminovich as a young man
30/03/2017
This is one of the photographs saved from the police in suitcases for 100 years. Only now has it been revealed. Axé.
Working at Librairie Gallimard
28/03/2017
I wish I could remember the name of the main manager of the bookstore, he was old and expansive and would sit in the office smoking cigars and doing paperwork, perhaps even reading manuscripts now that I think of it. Then there was the under-manager, M. Paul, a neoliberal type. Every morning after Giscard was … More Working at Librairie Gallimard
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