State income tax Cell phone saga Make sure that payment got there Move funds from savings bank to regular bank (Monday) Telephone messages NEH + 1 e-mail AP Conference Vita 1 letter of recommendation Annual report — to include Honors Convocation & internal funding Books FA 2013 Grade Post to three course websites Read for … More Tonight through Monday night
What if it is not “I hurt them terribly, in ways it was not fair of me to do and that still cause them daily pain, by being research oriented” — as I have always said since I accepted this as truth and repented for having disbelieved it for so long ago — but the … More Internalization
My fall class is extravagantly called States of Ruin: Violence and Identity in Latin American Literature 1810-1930 and I cannot find the abstract or the reading list, so must reconstruct. It is being given under a culture rubric and I think it is being cross listed with several programs, such that it has to be … More Háblenme
…my overarching structure and thread. While others talk about mestizaje and nation (and hybrid cultures) I am interested in race and the state. Looking at the same works through this [prism] gives other readings, readings that do not paper over violence and disjunction as much as do the more conciliatory mestizaje/nation theories. These never really … More Voici
I do not yet fully understand this and do not have time now to figure it out but watch the situation with EOServe and Southern University. Axé.
San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, photo from Wikitravel. It was so bright today here that I thought of SS-Donostia. Axé.
En medio de esta decadencia aparente del carácter nacional, se descubren de cuando en cuando ciertas señales de antiguo espíritu; ni puede ser de otro modo: querer que una nación se quede con solas sus propias virtudes y se despoje de sus defectos propios para adquirir en su lugar las virtudes de las extrañas, es … More Carta de Ben-Beley a Nuño
Here is some of something I said on e-mail today: I am trying to understand how two circuits of signification, despite disarticulation at some levels, connect (and connect they do): (a) different definitions of race and the racial, different formations of racial meaning in different places, and (b) race and the world system, where things … More El público
I keep working, but everything takes longer than planned and I am behind. There is a lot to do still today and a long day tomorrow. THURSDAY Early: Write Charles and Chris; change cell phone service. 9-6: Meeting, then prepare and teach, half an hour for lunch. Late: Finish and distribute minutes from meeting; finally … More Thursday and Friday plans, and beyond
I wrote this about six weeks ago and programmed it to come up today in case I still wanted to hear it. I cannot believe I actually wrote this so recently, but I did. Here is a hilarious critique of The Artist’s Way. I agree in substance although at the moment the excessive coddling Cameron recommends … More Protegerse
