Why are so many academics so immature?
07/08/2013
I could hardly disagree more with the egocentric views which appear to reign. Axé.
MOOC
06/08/2013
As I keep discovering, I am pedagogically more radical than most. If I taught a MOOC, I would take the “guide on the side” seriously by not videotaping myself at all, only posting letters, as in a blog post. Videotapes I would post would be of others, and they could be archival videotapes of academic … More MOOC
An activism recipe
05/08/2013
1) We introduced two motions into faculty senate: the first motion establishing a committee to rethink the Senate so that it could exercise a stronger voice in shared governance with administration; the second motion to shift our percentage of tenure-line to off-tenure-line instruction to 70/30 in 5 years. The first motion passed; the second was … More An activism recipe
Dulzura por dulzura…
04/08/2013
¡Dulzura por dulzura corazona! ¡Dulzura a gajos, eras de vista, esos abiertos días, cuando monté por árboles caídos! Así por tu paloma palomita, por tu oración pasiva, andando entre tu sombra y el gran tezón corpóreo de tu sombra. Debajo de ti y yo, tú y yo, sinceramente, tu candado ahogándose de llaves, yo ascendiendo … More Dulzura por dulzura…
Ackerman: let’s leave the Internet
01/08/2013
This is very interesting. In the wake of Snowden’s revelations we should leave the Internet and start interacting in the flesh once again. This way we get away from the panopticon and the government. Do you notice how aggressively we are pushed to communicate by electronic means? Face-to-face and other non-electronic communication is considered bad … More Ackerman: let’s leave the Internet
“The Glenn Beck of the Eighteenth Century”
01/08/2013
Rousseau in the Discourse on Arts and Sciences: Considering the dreadful disorders which printing has already caused in Europe and judging the future by the progress which evil makes day by day, we can readily predict that sovereigns will not delay in taking as many pains to ban this terrible art from their states as … More “The Glenn Beck of the Eighteenth Century”
Habitación 212
31/07/2013
Axé.
El trabajo
30/07/2013
In addition to teaching, service, and grant deadlines I now have one research deadline August 9 and another September 15. I therefore cannot work on any of my MOOC essays until that time. I do have three MOOC essays now: (1) the first, 3-part one I wrote for CN, (2) the second part of it … More El trabajo
The disappearing public university
28/07/2013
This is a revision, based on comments made by the editors, of the essay I ran here earlier, “On democracy, economy, and the rise and fall of the MOOC.” The disappearing public university I I teach Latin American literature and culture in a public research university that, having lost half its state funding over the … More The disappearing public university
On attitudes toward race and poverty in “America”…
27/07/2013
Professor Zero: Reading comments on news items I have come up with this insight: the reason people keep complaining about “welfare queens” and also “Obama voters” as non-workers it is costing us all our vacation time to support, and so, on, is SLAVERY. 1. In fact the riches of the US were built on slavery, … More On attitudes toward race and poverty in “America”…
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