A friend of mine who is a department chair is irritated at one of her assistant professors because he teaches extra courses, sometimes at night and sometimes in summer. This is to finance his professional travel and equipment, which are not provided by the university, and which cannot be financed through grants because granting agencies … More American Illusions
From Andy Blunden’s article: Kant offers a several alternative formulations of [the] categorical imperative. In the Science of Right, [he] draws on a maxim of Roman law to introduce a crucial additional nuance to [it]: Honeste vive [“live rightly”]: juridical rectitude, or honour, consists in maintaining one’s own worth as a man in relation to … More Kant on Integrity
[A prose poem after Vallejo and Lorca.] Jeg har en søster, som jeg ikke ser for meget af, og som jeg hellere ikke snakker så meget med. Men hun kom og besøgte mig dengang vores mor døde. Hun har set her i huset den røde pude, som ligger der på sofaen. –Den er smuk, elegant, … More Puden
Sometimes I go to New Orleans but avoid seeing my friends who work at Tulane University. This can be embarrassing if I run into them on the street and they say, but why did you not call me, why are you not staying with me, because the truthful answer would be the uncharitable and incomprehensible … More New Orleans Noir
This is “We Spent the Fourth of July in Bed.” Check it out, it is great. I learned about Suheir Hammad from Ridwan. Axé.
Elena Garro returned as a writer after being silenced and then resisting this imposition through the deployment of an active silence, over a period of thirteen years. That is inspiring. However, Rip van Winkle woke up after sleeping for twelve years, and I have been comparing my sleep of Reeducation to his. This blog points … More On Odysseus and the Gods
It is the weekend, so we shall sing. These are the Novos Baianos on Samba da minha terra, a very old song by Dorival Caymmi. Recommended weekend reading includes two posts by Rebel Girl, on Rubén Salazar and on Labor Day. Axé.
Please read Automatic Preference on the Jena 6 situation. Highlights inlude: White students hung three hangman’s nooses from a tree near Jena High School, immediately after Black students received permission to sit under that tree. A fire at Jena High School, arson suspected, no arrests. White-initiated fistfight, no serious injuries resulted: white student charged with … More Mychal Bell
There are many more videos, all different and each as interesting as this, at Voices from the Gulf. Axé.
I Long ago someone I knew made a diagram of the graduate programs in which his wife and her friends, of whom I was one, were studying. The diagram drew and explained the parallels between these programs and the branch of the military they most resembled. The military parallel for my program was the Marines, … More On Becoming a Professor
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