I always said my stalled projects had to do with Reeducation tout court and they did but Reeducation, including get-it-done academic advice which is an aspect of it, also obscured what were straight-up research problems, that could have been treated as such. The background to the fragmentation of research I experience now was laid out … More El tres
On the question of how college professors get alienated from their work I do have one really simple answer, they do not have a safe space in which to do it. I just got one, after not having had one since graduate school except for a period of about two years. During that safe period … More El dos
The trap in which I have lain is multi-pronged although all roads lead to Rome. Let us see: IN LIFE IN GENERAL – PROBLEM A: the idea that the slightest misstep will bring down extreme violence / exile / death, and the knowledge that one must be constantly on guard about these missteps since the … More El uno
Hattie is the one who really found this. Axé.
One of my great frustrations in life is with people who tell me I am being “perfectionistic” if I find any flaws in any work I do. I could not disagree more because I do not believe Leonardo da Vinci just had his work spring out of his head spontaneously. You have to keep zigzagging … More Study questions and paper topics, or, Santa Sangre
I am still grading. Axé.
As we know, I gave oral final examinations for Spanish 3 for five hours today. I learned that the students are obsessed with the 1950s. – The economy was good in the 1950s and the bills were paid. There was more leisure time. – Many white women would like to live in the 1950s. They … More Brave new students
After five hours of oral examinations and advising on one paper where I kept saying to the student, “It is not a question of saying whether these phenomena and this concept are good or bad, it is a question of articulating how they appear in the text, and what the text does with them,” we … More Post du jour
It seems that in very many lecture courses there are Power Point slides with a bulleted list of points from the textbook that the professor reads aloud, without explaining. Exams are multiple choice and come from the test bank of the textbook. You can tell the test bank you want fifty medium-hard questions and it … More Revelation
I keep wanting to answer, for me, the question posed at the end of this post, so I will start making a list of the factors without insisting I finish the post all at once. 1. My dissertation was in beautiful prose but I did not have enough background on the topic to be writing … More Des réponses
