C’est donc en raison de ses faiblesses et non de ses réussites que l’université américaine présente une menace: tout l’invite à inventer d’urgence des solutions innovantes et, pour les rentabiliser, à les diffuser à l’étranger. L’Asie sera sa première cible, pour des raisons démographiques et économiques. Mais l’Europe sera également touchée si les Etats-Unis créent … More Ryan Craig
If adjuncts and tenure-track professors are disempowered in relation to their students, the solution isn’t to attack students. . . . sneering at undergraduates with too many feelings or an unsuspecting woman who had the misfortune of tweeting about the biases of scientific research and discourse. Rather, it’s to focus on a university system that … More Identity politics, students as customers, and academic freedom
I wanted to see this film here in Barcelona but I don’t think I am going to get to it. (There is so much else I have not done.) I will leave here the fantastic 1999 edition of the DK Eyewitness Barcelona Travel Guide because there is a 2014 one that can be had. I … More Libraries and electronic copies exist
There is an article we should all read and discuss, as it is about the present. It is part of a symposium on the teaching of literature, where other luminaries presented as well. Tuve, Rosemond. “More Battle than Books.” Sewanee Review 55:4 (Oct.-Dec. 1947): 571-585. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27537774 This post is for all, but is … More Rosemond Tuve
In Reeducation, it was considered “inappropriate” or evidence of “denial” not to feel fearful or not to be so. You were to “learn to actually feel your feelings” which meant to give any fears you did have free rein. I had a book contract that according to Reeducation it was inappropriate that a person like … More Sobre los sentimientos
I spent five days there. The first two, I did not bring the laptop because I did not realize you could plug them in and mine had short battery life. Then I realized this was because I needed a new battery, so I took the computer to the shop and was without it for two … More Biblioteca de Catalunya
Solving the SNCF mystery. The sun in the cathedral, with its palm trees. The Archive of Aragon, with Columbus’ original capitulations. Getting a library card. The port. The theatre listings, the Café de la Opera. The tourists, the trendy shops. Buying green shoes. The rain. Lost and there were no locals to ask for directions, … More Some notes on Barcelona today
It has commercials, but here you get to see how it was to go up the Hudson, and visit prisoners in 1974. Axé.
Or one week of goodness, although I am hoping to get three. I had four days of peaceful writing at home, and four days of excellent work at a summer institute. Otherwise this summer has had more problems and far less calm than had been foreseen or planned. Now I am going on three weeks … More Quatre jours de paix
Journalists, exiles, editors, underground conspirators, this was by definition an intelligentsia without positions or place in the institutions of the state. Read all about it. Axé.
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