Back to Shahrazad III At dinner that night I discovered that the past week’s FARC attack had taken place just outside Pasto. As a left leaning, petit bourgeois intellectual I do not know what to feel, someone said. The FARC are excellent guerrillas, we really like them. Usually nothing happens anyway, the boys just come … More Shahrazad IV
For ridiculousness, one of my favorite academic experiences of all time was the telephone call I received from a senior person in Women’s Studies who announced that I was the least oppressed person on the faculty: no husband, no children, not a woman of color, not disabled, not gay. As the least oppressed person, it … More Patriarchal Women I
Back to Shahrazad II Tupac drove us to a gated and heavily guarded compound. Inside the white walls were a lawn, a restaurant, and a number of pavilions. This was the club of the Bank of the Republic, where we were to stay. Official and fancy though it was, its nighttime attendant seemed a bit … More Shahrazad III
Back to Shahrazad I About a week after the phone call, or the dream, a fax arrived from the Bank of the Republic of Colombia: we urgently need the title of your lecture. So now I phoned. It seemed I was to cancel my regular classes for a week to participate in a symposium at … More Shahrazad II
I can compose calmly and directly now instead of having my brain expand and pulsate in asymmetrical ways. And composition is craftsmanlike and pleasant. As it gets sharper, I can feel the synapses click and the blood run through the capillaries in my temples. I have more wind in my chest, and more space in … More Shahrazad I
This documentary is great, and you can understand much of it without understanding the words. Axé.
Monday was Blogging for Sex Education Day and I did not know, but I know now, and my favorite post on this topic is from Jack’s Non-Blog. It says in part that [s]ex has, for many people, an emotional impact that is rarely discussed logically in any form, and is normally reduced to saccharine conceptions … More Blogging for Sex Education
This is Pacific Ocean Bluegrass, with fiddle player Katie Nakamura channelling Bill Monroe. Go Katie! Also, a piece of news I ought to have posted for Memorial Day, but am posting now for us to read and mourn, is this story of a PTSD-affected veteran, killed at home by a police sharpshooter after receiving a … More Orange Blossom Special
I have very little knowledge of Lacan and cannot comment seriously on him, but observe this: Between man and love, there is woman; between man and woman, there is a world; betwen man and the world, there is a wall. What is at stake in a serious love relationship between a man and a woman … More Jacques Lacan
From the May 30 State of the City address, given at the D-Day Museum: “It was time for a change, a new prescription,” he said. “In spite of some opposition, I stood firm and we swallowed the pill and what we are doing is working. Everyone has noticed the change in our appearance. We look … More Nagin on New Orleans
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