What is this press . . .
06/10/2020
Teseo. Unlike everyone else, they are begging for manuscripts. Axé.
Macedonio, Vallejo, poesía
03/10/2020
I am discarding No toda es vigilia la de los ojos abiertos because my copy is yellowing. It is very interesting on the question of the avant-garde subject, and I intend to return to it. I am discarding a yellowed book of essays on Vallejo by one whose ideas I find interesting, or stimulating. I … More Macedonio, Vallejo, poesía
If universities are businesses
02/10/2020
If universities are businesses: – education and research are not public goods but a private business opportunity – education and research are not investments in the society’s future but in the future of companies to which services may be outsourced – their objective is to make a profit for stockholders – they should not have … More If universities are businesses
Concrete suggestions for improvement
01/10/2020
We wrote a long and vague resolution that did not go anywhere, but I would be for making much more frequent, short recommendations, and repeating them. Two possibilities follow. Tuition and fees The rising cost of tuition and fees is untenable. For universities to be a public good, public higher education, like secondary education, must … More Concrete suggestions for improvement
Coco + Carmen
01/10/2020
No, I am not paid to advertise, but I am writing to remember. These were the brand of the jeans that wore out, and they were good, although they only cost me $19. Now, to replace, it will cost $62. But I believe they were skinny, high rise, dark denim, small, and that is what … More Coco + Carmen
More things I learned, or remembered
30/09/2020
I learned about this poet of fragmented of subjectivity, and the journal that article is in. I remembered about the politics of localization, which do not suggest we develop empathy as an activist strategy. I learned about current Mexican literature and avant-garde theory. I saw people thinking in a relaxed and precise way, and thought … More More things I learned, or remembered
Carne y arena
30/09/2020
In my study group we read an interesting paper about this that said it was reformist and not revolutionary. Axé.
What I have to say about that
27/09/2020
“That” is Peter’s obnoxious piece in IHE. I. What I say 1. Someone who calls abolitionism, civil rights activism, and so on “wokeism” is being derisive and is sneering at serious work. 2. There is no “contradiction” between the facts that race is socially constructed and that we have a long history of racial discrimination … More What I have to say about that
Manifeste Cannibale Dada
27/09/2020
Our review text for the day. Axé.
“Caminante, no hay camino:” a book
26/09/2020
Traveler, There Is No Road: Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2017). “Traveler, There Is No Road offers a compelling and complex vision of the decolonial imagination in the United States from 1931 to 1943 and beyond. By examining the ways … More “Caminante, no hay camino:” a book
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