Dear Department Chair, It is true what you say, that I believe my opinion on this matter is more valid, and should hold more weight than your sidekick’s. The reason for this, however, is not that I have more degrees and a higher rank than does your sidekick. The reason is that I read book … More Practicing for next year.
This is the so called rey negro del vallenato, whom we are grateful to be able to hear. Axé.
You have to consider the idea of the anti-nation. This is in that Sanjinés book to which I am currently addicted. Axé.
People keep trying to figure out what they would do if they could afford it, but I have known for a very long time — enroll in a JD program and prepare to work upon, that is to say against the global prison industrial complex. My LSAT score is not as competitive as my GRE … More Ce que je ferais
An event. A father who speaks long. A family which does not have care and whose child is at the event. A child who interrupts his father. A child bored. A father who allows his child to interrupt. A father who says son, I am talking. A father who says audience, I am sorry, it … More Love in the provinces
We did not get our grant and were in fact rated 20th out of 35 proposals. We received 76 points, with 70 being the minimum required for funding; some people received many fewer; nonetheless we were rated 20th. Only the first 8 were funded. Things wrong with us are, allegedly: a) our university already provides … More Bad, bad agency!
A friend writes: “[T]he regime of signs that is used to define truth institutionally here is facing a fundamental crisis of legitimacy. [Limitations on privacy, reporting, and free speech] are not the moves of a healthy polity. Behind all of this some incredibly insidious forces are at play. They do not want [information to be … More Quotation
I have had trouble been mostly unhappy in academia ever since finishing the Ph.D and there are reasons for this having to do with my background, principally having been taught that I was not worthy and also that I should not be enjoying this. Because of these lessons everything I do is fraught with guilt, … More I am not a normal professor.
In Eastertide, as we are. On the progress toward death as a process of healing. My new favorite film, Biutiful. Sanjinés, referring to Borda and Saenz and then back to Benjamin, on the corpse. “Everything corpse-like falls away from the body piece by piece.” Sanjinés’ book is the most truly erudite thing I have read … More Muerte. a. muerte.
Davis bought the “rights” and said it was his, but it was not. See also the work of Toru Matsui on this matter. Axé.
