¡Cima de la delicia! Todo en el aire es pájaro. Se cierne lo inmediato Resuelto en lejanía. ¡Hueste de esbeltas fuerzas! ¡Qué alacridad de mozo En el espacio airoso, Henchido de presencia! El mundo tiene cándida Profundidad de espejo. Las más claras distancias Sueñan lo verdadero. ¡Dulzura de los años Irreparables! ¡Bodas Tardías con la … More Primaveral
It is true, professors are flowers and have to have sun, water, nice soil and time to read. You cannot jail someone below ground, sentence them to sacrifice and penitence, set them on a time-clock and expect a good result, even if the advisors say that is what is needed. I caught a glimpse of … More Stamani in un urna d’acqua
Still, if we are slipping from liberalism to fascism, and if radical democracy or socialism is nowhere on the political horizon, don’t we have to defend liberal democratic institutions and values? Isn’t this the lesson of Weimar? I have labored to suggest that this is not the right diagnosis of our predicament: it does not … More Wendy Brown
Everyone advises and pontificates, and what they say is wrong from the point of view of anyone with any discipline, any hedonism, any love for life and any sophistication. So I will give the anti advice. Advice: don’t read, write. Truth: reading is research. Do not try to produce without doing research. Advice: only work … More How to work and live
It is what is done to my field and research in my field by the university, and from a much broader point of view there is this. Axé.
What is the core of neoliberal ideology? Firstly, that you are alone, that you are an individual competing with everybody else. Secondly, that the real distinction among human beings is between winners and losers, right? There’s no more stable class identity, no more stable political identity – the real divide is between neoliberalism’s winners and … More Subjects of neoliberalism
Those were some words and phrases the Emeritus Professor used tonight in response to my description of some activities of the upper administration. Axé.
I am plagiarizing this post from the Facebook page of a colleague, and hope that is all right. Look: Correspondences: Adorno on Benjamin: “Despite extreme individuation […] Benjamin seems empirically hardly to have been a person at all, rather an arena of movement in which content forced its way, through him, into language.” Jim Siegel … More On subjectivity, language and the body
It has taken some planning but I have the plane ticket, which cost a total of one hundred twenty-seven dollars. Nights 1-7 will be in Barcelona and I must reserve that room in Born. $55×7, or $385. Nights 8-11 will be in Sitges and I must reserve my room. $50×4, or $200. On Day 12 … More Le voyage
Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you can’t create you can work. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers. Those are our three points du jour, although my favorites are still “Work on one thing at a time until finished” and “Work calmly, … More More from Miller
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