We are asked to teach online because we need money and the University of Phoenix has a corner on that market here. I might be better at teaching online than some people just because of my blogging and web design experience, and my interests in media. However, there are serious reasons not to volunteer. Some … More We Are Asked to Teach Online
ONE: The Emeritus Professor used to say you had to be from the upper classes to be an academic. I would laugh, as we are not ourselves from the upper classes, and also because whereas the Emeritus Professor worked at an institution where one could have research expenses paid, I do not; to function I … More On Class
These songs of freedom. Axé.
Apparently these are: 1. Relatedness 2. Creativity 3. Rootedness 4. A sense of identity 5. A frame of reference It seems that items 1-3 are inalienable to me, but items 4-5 can be stolen. The reason for this is not actually bad — it is that cultural flexibility that enables me to adapt, it is … More Erich Fromm on Human Needs
Z: This group is rather odd. I do not know that I can relate. Whiteman: You are not better than anyone else here, and we all have the same problem. Z: I never said I was better than anyone here, nor that we did not all have the same problem. I said it was a … More An Undiscovered Whiteman
Here is a rare interview of Víctor Jara by Nicomedes Santa Cruz, done just a few months before Jara was killed. They are both important people, and if you do not know about them it is easy to find out. I never saw Jara in person and it is not easy now to find a … More El canto del pueblo
In the past three weeks I have accomplished too little in terms of visible production. What have I been doing in this hot village? For it is so hot that I find it difficult even to watch whole films, read whole books, or listen to whole albums. I have been reading very short texts. In … More The Open Source Fallacy
Aquellos ojos míos de mil novecientos diez no vieron enterrar a los muertos, ni la feria de ceniza del que llora por la madrugada, ni el corazón que tiembla arrinconado como un caballito de mar. Aquellos ojos míos de mil novecientos diez vieron la blanca pared donde orinaban las niñas, el hocico del toro, la … More 1910 (Intermedio)
A la Sra. Lupe Medina de Ortega 1 Los grupos de palomas, notas, claves, silencios, alteraciones, modifican el ritmo de la loma. La que se sabe tornasol afina las ruedas luminosas de su cuello con mirar hacia atrás a su vecina. Le da al sol la mirada y escurre en una sola pincelada plan de … More Grupos de palomas
It was midday. The crowd filled the streets, coming and going, dispersing or conglomerating, circulating or standing still, pouring down the entrances to the métro like a river of bitumen, assaulting the buses like a cloud of locusts; a crowd trading on each other’s toes, digging its elbows into each other’s ribs, spitting into each … More Des Foules
