Notice this interesting digital project, brought to my attention by Jennifer, upon which I think Momo should comment. Behind it is an engine which crawls blogs to find the emotions of cities. (Louisiana cities represented are Baton Rouge and Lafayette, both of which apparently record a high incidence of guilt feelings.) Out of this it … More Digital Worlds
Las ventanas se han estremecido, elaborando una metafísica del universo. Vidrios han caído. Un enfermo lanza su queja: la mitad por su boca lenguada y sobrante, y toda entera, por el ano de su espalda. Es el huracán. Un castaño del jardín de las Tullerías habráse abatido, al soplo del viento, que mide ochenta metros … More “Las ventanas se han estremecido” I
In the September/October SIERRA, Paul Rauber’s article on/review of carbon imprint calculators is of very great interest! I did one of these before but I do not know how good it was. It said we would need 5 earths if everyone lived like me. It seems that the Berkeley Institute of the environment, at coolclimate.berkeley.edu, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays: Carbon Imprint Calculators
I really am almost finished transforming back. I think. To continue to transform back I would like to say that what Reeducation did was take a distorting picture of one’s moment of trauma and say: This is the real you. Admit that it is the real you. And you had to start living as that … More On Transformation
Everyone needs your time and money right now, I know. But it is important to DEFEAT MEASURE 11 IN SOUTH DAKOTA and women there need your help. Consider it, and consider phone banking for Obama this weekend. One point of phone banking now is to get people to vote early – that is that much … More Alert. En Vida
I have had another of those conversations with someone who likes teaching, in which I said I did not. But when I told her WHAT I was teaching she turned up her nose. “In my university we have other people to do that.” I thought, “Well, I rest my case.” But my graduate student does … More And Continuing
So the whitemen here are a female perfume seller in a mall and her supervisor. They are true Yankees, a Yankee being someone who rode the Mayflower to New England and has been there ever since. King Arthur is a professor from a foreign country. King Arthur: One bottle of Hermes perfume, please. Whiteman: You … More Some Yankee Whitemen
Now animated by a yogic comment from Hattie, I can keep on saying things and drawing pictures, these always having been some of my first goals in life. The immediate additional causes of my current malaise: a) so many students, including graduate students, need remedial work, but we are keeping up a certain fiction … … More On Precariousness and Destabilization
Voy a hablar de la esperanza. HOY SUFRO SOLAMENTE As we know, I am a working man, although if I were a male academic I might not have all the same duties as I do. That, precisely, is why I am a working man in old fashioned terms: a working man works on an assembly … More Voy a hablar de la esperanza
When you are really having problems, nobody believes that you are suffering. When you are all right and working things out on your own, nobody believes that you are not disturbed and suffering. That is from a brilliant and hilarious post by Ballasexitenz. Reeducation thought it was wrong that I should be an intellectual and … More Sexism Is
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