It has come to my attention that if I were living in a state that paid into Social Security, and I continued to make what I am now, and I retired at age 67, I would draw about $2,000 per month in Social Security for life. Since Social Security taxes are not taken out of … More Advice to new faculty, item 99
This is what the academic advisors say, boiled down: (1) rush yourself, (2) sacrifice everything, and (3) conduct large amounts of conventional research that will affirm the status quo. This is the only way to evade execution. It is that threatening atmosphere, prison and sacrifice, and the gag rule, do not publish research, but only … More The cautiousness
Now we are beginning to Occupy these bayous, filling the atmosphere with our own, expanding, ignoring the forces that pull us down, honing our own strengths. #OccupyHE Axé.
Now I think I have demolished both academic advice and Reeducation with that phrase, “pessimistically driven.” I might better use this weblog as an affirmation of an alternative rather than a defense against these forces. That is how it was originally conceived. I am so accustomed to the experience of this town and university as … More Sitting in expertise
“Pessimistically driven,” someone said. That is why I do not like academic advice: it assumes life is terrible and you are incompetent and lazy, so you must be kept on the straight and narrow and hurried along … and disabused of all interest in creativity or pleasure. The advice is correct insofar as it is … More Pessimistically driven
I am home again, although we are still having funereal music. This song is quite deep, in both versions. I must do many things and also visit LSP-Angola soon. Axé.
I have been impressing people here in the Midwest with tales of Maringouin culture, which turns out to be fascinating. In my typical fashion, I am captivated by my newest location and want to move here. I will be a denizen of Over-the-Rhine which is partly a small German city, partly the old town of … More Des lieux
The planes that go from Houston to Cincinnatti are of the regional kind, which seems incongruous since the trajectory implies such a great change between cultural worlds. Cincinnatti has a German Bank and a lovely nineteenth century train station called the Dixie Terminal. I went to Houston to go to Cincinnatti. Originally I was to … More En voyage
I am going away for more than a week and I do not intend to post. When I return to Maringouin I will say: Even here, you do not have to suffer. Suffering is a Reeducated requirement, and a requirement in this local culture, but the people who wanted or want you to suffer are … More Og farvel igen
Now everything is beautiful again and it has to do with pleasure. Or the self-love I lost in Reeducation and have difficulty summoning here. It is not this town that is terrible, although it does not suit me; and it is not academia, although I wish I could have done something more interesting. It is … More On getting back to what needs to be done
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