Current evaluations of teaching
28/06/2019
This proposal is quite interesting. We used to evaluate teaching with something more than Yelp-style reviews, yes. Axé.
August 3-11
26/06/2019
It is in August, then, that I will create the reserve list for that class and construct Moodle sites for all my classes. In July I will still read for them. Today I was supposed to start writing — write for an hour, not read — that article. There are all these tantalizing ways to … More August 3-11
Research universities and the public good
25/06/2019
I would buy this book if it were less expensive, and if it were in a library I would check it out. Countering recent arguments that we should “unbundle” or “disrupt” higher education, Jason Owen-Smith argues that research universities are valuable gems that deserve support. While they are complex and costly, their enduring value is … More Research universities and the public good
António Cândido
24/06/2019
…de Mello e Souza is our topic today. On the theory of getting rid of one book, binder, or at least one file folder each day, no matter how good it is, I am getting rid of a binder of xeroxes of works by him (if I can — right now, the cat is sitting … More António Cândido
Very well.
19/06/2019
I have finished ordering books on the one little grant and now I will order the rest on the other. I need the Galaxia Gutenberg García Lorca complete works in four volumes, and they are available for 200 € plus shipping from La Central. I also need the Cátedra edition of Así que pasen cinco … More Very well.
And we’re off…!
12/06/2019
…to the races! Coming back to that paper again, I have decided not to worry that F. da Silva’s formula is too facile. I will take it for now. YES Descartes and Bacon with their division of Man and Nature, cosmic Subject and Object, enabled modern imperial ideology to “[define] women and colonies into nature” … More And we’re off…!
Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaína
11/06/2019
This is a historian with fascinating interests: daily life on the Indies fleets in the 16th century; shipwrecks; civic reactions to 18th century earthquakes in Peru; general history of Latin America, and more. He says he got interested in shipwrecks because he wanted to see how people recovered from that kind of trauma, so he … More Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaína
Didier Fassin
01/06/2019
I would like to read more of César Aira, and I would like to read this book. “Politics … involves struggle against the scandalous inequality of human life and thus can never be reduced to mere governance.” (What is happening to us here is political and ideological, and cannot be solved by mere governance although … More Didier Fassin
Moishe Postone
31/05/2019
Postone is in the category of people I should have read, and would like to read. Axé.
Cultures of reading
18/05/2019
I was going to make note of, and then donate my issue of the January, 2019 PMLA but I think I will keep it, for now. I often do not even read PMLA, it seems boring, but then once in a while it has things of interest. Here, there’s an article on Fanon’s radio; one … More Cultures of reading
