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 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…
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
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”
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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
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
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”…
I believe this is the first song I remember hearing recorded. That explains why my weblog is so sophisticated. Axé.
This is Indépendance Cha Cha, and it is worth studying! And — #OccupyHE. Axé.
