I think these are interesting as information for oneself as much or more than for others. 1. How did you arrive at your dissertation topic or most recent project of considerable scope? 2. If you could go back and teach your grad school self one important thing about reading/writing/teaching/etc. that you learned after grad school, … More Five questions we can answer: un post pour le weekend.
Another reason people think they cannot work in small pieces of time is that they do not see research as something you can relax with in a casual way. I used to do it in a relaxed way, most of the time, but then later I started to do it as relaxation. It was the … More Another revolutionary statement: on research as relaxation
It is his birthday, y’all! Axé.
The first sentence of my book came to me. I was always like this, always had to wait for a first sentence, always had to start at the beginning, as with a poem. (This is another reason why I find all those warnings and instructions, do not start at the beginning, write the middle first, … More Chocante
I have to, now that I am in that writing group. The goal is to actually put as much time into it as my contract stipulates, namely 30% of 60 hours or 18 hours per week. This, of course, can be reduced in some weeks since the consideration is that it is a 40 week … More On putting research first
I will eventually stop reacting to this piece, but not until I have said all I have to say about it. I have been listening to this advice since the first time I heard the Emeritus Professor give it to a student. I was still in elementary school then, so it was a long time … More On senses of place
Write CUNY, it is important. Axé.
Da whitemen keep going on about how one must be ready to move anywhere, but they are also saying your primary goals should be suburban. Note how they keep going on about the value of being “a big fish in a small pond,” having “affordable real estate,” and if I remember right, parking. And while … More The CHE is less interesting than New Orleans, and is egocentric. They see commitment to a place and call it elitism and lack of flexibility — I call them milquetoasts without backbone or personality.
I keep telling myself that New Orleans just is seedy with spots of glory, that is its nature, but the fact is that it has gone downhill since my heyday in it in concrete ways such as the following: – the public schools have all been converted to charters – the Times-Picayune only publishes three … More Nuevos apuntes del fin de semana
– criminal justice as a racialized system of control – the domestic war on crime is part of the global wars on drugs and on terror – the prison industrial complex and other technologies of domination which: capture, immobilize, dehumanize, liquidate – the system must be uprooted, not reformed – email quigley77@gmail.com – the criminal … More Algunos apuntes del fin de semana
coldhearted scientist وداد 