The retired Peruvian military officers Telmo Hurtado and Juan Rivera Rondón, who are accused of the August, 1985 murders of 69 peasants in the Ayacuchan village of Accomarca, were arrested yesterday in Miami on immigration charges. The School of the Americas Watch has launched a campaign to pressure Peruvian authorities to extradite the pair so … More Pueblos de Ayacucho
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for … More Letter from Birmingham Jail
I struck out walking again, impelled by my rubber soles. I was crowned by a magnificent silence surrounded by baby grand pianos everywhere. In the darkness, traced out with electric light bulbs, one could read with out effort: St. Lazarus Station. St. Lazarus was born very pale. He emitted a smell of wet sheep. When … More St. Lucy and St. Lazarus VI
On one of the doors leading out of the cathedral the skeleton of an ancient fish had been hung; on another, the skeleton of a seraph, gently rocked by the oval breeze of the opticians’ shops, which wafted in with its fresh smell of apples and coastline. It was lunch time, and I asked for … More St. Lucy and St. Lazarus V
To: All Interviewees From: Professor Zero Re: How To Keep Me From Voting “No” Outright Date: Forever 1. Keep your hands away from your face when you are speaking. I have seen as many as 80% of candidates per day cover their mouths, cradle their heads in one arm so that half the audience cannot … More On MLA Interviews and Campus Visits
Beautiful Iran Please contemplate for a moment the beauty of a country we may be about to destroy. Link courtesy of Bet Blue. Axé.
I taught four classes in a row today, on four topics as I always do Tuesdays and Thursdays this semester, after getting up at 5:30 AM to finish grading and updating WebCT. A job candidate is landing in exactly 34 minutes. I expect to be bleary eyed for some time. In the fourth class, I … More On Absolutism and Enlightenment
This is the fourth installment of our mysterious text. Once again, what I present here is a very rough draft. It could use comments. In the cathedral people were celebrating the solemn novena to the human eyes of St. Lucy. The exterior of things was being glorified, the clean, well ventilated beauty of the skin, … More St. Lucy and St. Lazarus IV
I never read the newsletter of California Prison Focus as closely as I might, but an item in the current edition caught my eye – Robin Levi and Vanessa Huang’s “Prison Proposal is Disturbingly Akin to Eugenics” (rpt. from L. A. Daily Journal, 8 January 2007), on p. 25. Apparently, sterilization is again being foisted … More Eugenics News
1. We understand ‘modernism’ by reference to its focus on authenticity and originality, and ‘post-modernism’ by a reactive emphasis on repetition and derivativeness. 2. If modernism ignores the role of discourse in shaping social representations, the post-modernist emphasis on discursive construction has tended to employ a socially unlocatable model of discourse. On 1. Is this … More Modernism and Avant-Garde
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