As a person who was always encouraged to write before doing research or rather than do research I normally advocate never starting to write until you are actually ready. I hasten to emphasize that this does not mean one should delay. I also emphasize that all the ways of managing to write and surviving writing … More Deux conseils pour la semaine
A rather good description of love: Quando o meu mundo era mais mundo E todo mundo admitia Uma mudança muito estranha Mais pureza, mais carinho, mais calma, mais alegria No meu jeito de me dar Quando a canção se fez mais clara e mais sentida Quando a poesia realmente fez folia em minha vida… I … More Alguma música para a segunda-feira (tengo un sueño en las manos)
Jeremy, here, is interesting on psychotherapy, which, as we know, I am largely against. And I do not lead the life I think I should, some aspects of which are actually elements in the life I want. Today I gave a long interview about the prison activism I do, and primarily the work done in … More La vie
This is a brilliant blog, and this is an excellent post in it. One thing I am going to do with TIME: read in the evening, write in the morning; morning sessions are theoretically 1 hour and evening, 1-1/2 hours, but these can be shortened or divided up. Monday to Thursday are regular work days; … More On research as a second language
This is apparently what patrones would say to peones in Chile before Allende, and now as well for all I know; it is also what they say to factory workers in the United States. Mike White, the chairman and owner of Rite-Hite, a major Milwaukee manufacturer of industrial equipment, told employees in an email this … More “Muchacho’, mañana hay eleccione’, y hay que votar por Fulano, que Mengano e’ comuni’ta”
Escolta, Espanya – la veu d’un fill que parla en llengua – no castellana: parlo en la llengua – que m’ha donat la terra aspra. En ‘questa llengua – pocs t’han parlat; en altra, massa. I must teach the Peninsular survey – another course in a field about which I know not enough, and which … More Joan Maragall
The question in the students’ book was: have you ever said yes to something when you meant no? I would not normally have a profound thought about this question but because it came up in an academic venue, and somehow I have profound thoughts during this very basic class — they float somewhere near the ceiling, … More On saying yes and no
I want it. The reason I do not have it is that there are so many obstacles to rationally managed teaching and service placed here. This is done because the University, as it has said in writing, does not support my fields. One must be less and less kind and negotiate less and less, and … More I want more research time.
Despite all I say, we should not cancel the major or the M.A. program. We should only find a way not to be martyrs to these. I have always said the only answer is, all hands on the research deck. It seems I am beginning to be believed. Axé.
Perhaps it is something we can call the productivity trap. The real reason to work is for pleasure, you get things done and life flows through you and you change, moving up one more level of consciousness. But when the focus is products in a line you have what might be good old fashioned alienated … More Productivity trap
