Now it is fall. Fall means it is dry and sunny. I have always did liked the fall. I like studying in fall but in Reeducation that was considered a bad thing. Studying was something one must shed to find reality hidden beneath its shell, because Reeducation could not imagine study was at the core … More More about me and dat formerly, but only temporarily internalized whiteman
What are they really up to with all of these digital humanities job postings? I cannot help but think it is code for something. They apparently want: A senior digital humanities specialist: someone who, while having scholarly expertise in one or more areas of literature in English, has established national/international visibility and leadership in digital … More University of Connecticut
There are people, things and books I only get to know about because I read of them in the news. (I cannot afford to go to national conferences now, for example. When the university stopped funding these a few years ago I filled up a credit card for a while. Now I am paying on … More Oblivion: A Memoir
Where even the shadow has light, there summer is spoken. Where darkness speaks you– a word– you still say light. Where the body is, you say convocation, absolute sun. –Andrés Sánchez Robyana, trans. J. Mayhew, in The Nation 295:16 (15.X.2012): 32. Axé.
Et voilà, now we know. Once again, that is what I would have said, at eleven, seventeen, twenty-four, thirty-one, until I met professors. Namely, assistant professors who had been protégés of famous people at famous schools, and had jobs for this reason. Also, associate and full professors who had attained these ranks by pleasing the … More What is a scholar?
“For much of human history, systems of virtual money were designed and regulated to ensure that nothing like capitalism could ever emerge to begin with – at least not as it appears in its present form, with most of the world’s population placed in a condition that would in many other periods of history be … More David Graeber
Check this out, it is quite interesting. Axé.
El vendedor de agua Canción Autor: Francisco Repilado Muñoz y Lorenzo Hierrezuelo Caserita vendo agua Un cubito para ti Caserita vendo agua Un cubito para ti. La traigo barata y limpia Cómprame el agua a mí El aguador caserita ya llegó Agua para limpiar y tomar También para cocinar La traigo pura y limpita El … More El vendedor de agua
Now that I have decided to actively make foreign language classes a space of relaxation and anti-tension, I have also decided to care about the textbook. I do not like foreign language textbooks because they are not in black and white. They are very busy, filled with all of these distracting boxes and drawings. I … More Foreign Language Textbooks (a crabby post)
“You are not like other faculty,” I have always heard, and I never understood what it meant except that I am not the type to have a minivan. But now I am starting to see. They loved to read, and then they fell in love with a particular foreign culture, or with something in their … More The difference between me and some others
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