Perhaps it is because of being from the west and meditating on the ocean. I like and have balance and calm, which is not laziness. People from New England are brash, loud, crass, immature, and anxious, so they have much harder lives than I do. Perhaps I have been on strike all these years, against … More …endless academic advice…
I must rewrite/meld together my two posts for Remaking the University, together with the part they thought was too undeveloped, and submit it to The Nation. People in summer wanted me to send to NYT or WSJ but word limits there are not right, and it turns out that Nation readers are as deluded about … More Not to forget
I am not convinced by the current Mignolo; I think “decolonial” is a fuzzy category; I liked his things from earlier on, though. Nebrija in the New World: Renaissance Philosophy of Language and the Spread of Western Literacy 1. Looking back from Bernardo J. de Aldrete: the linguistic unification of Spain and the linguistic diversity … More Mignolo 1995, chapter 1, parts 1-2, lots of fun
She has written me a letter. Another one she wrote, if I remember well, asked for donations for Katrina victims. Now I am to renew my MLA membership. Here is why: As we prepare for another MLA convention, which will take place in Chicago from 9 to 12 January 2014, I wanted to remind you … More Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal
Be confident, put your own best interests first, and above all, do not fret. At the same time, show no weakness. I do not mean be perfect, I mean show no weakness. What new faculty get away with when they are men, however, truly amazes me. Axé.
You can do it in the lower division if you are not teaching multisection, multiterm courses and interfacing with terminal M.A. adjuncts and fly-by-night textbook companies. Otherwise, you cannot, and it is not your fault. You can do it in the upper division if you teach these courses like lower division ones. That makes life … More Saving time on teaching — in a formerly regional university
Now I am coming up to the end of my second non-depressed month. I can see that part of not getting depressed is just mental health hygiene, as Clarissa says, and that includes, importantly, having resources for this and most importantly, knowing how not to internalize oppression. On the question of time, I now see … More Still more academic advice
Today I asked a Fulbright officer a question I wanted to ask over 20 years ago and got an even more positive answer than I had dreamed of getting then — had I dared to ask. I assumed that the problem I was having, that caused me to decline the Fulbright, was my problem, not … More Memories of underdevelopment
The other thing Jonathan and Clarissa do not understand about the situation of Rebecca Schuman and others is what it is like to work in a field the institution is working against. A common response to such observations is that the institution is against the humanities generally and that we are all suffering greatly. That … More Still more Schuman
To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question of holding fast to a picture of the past, just as if it had unexpectedly thrust itself, in … More Afsnit seks
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