It is by Stuart Hall and it is a key text. I find myself caring about structuralism and poststructuralism as never before. But this is a q/d handout for the students. Floating signifier in Oxford Reference: A signifier without a specific signified (see sign). Also known as an ‘empty signifier’, it is a signifier that … More Race, the floating signifier (1996) — the beginning of a handout for class
Remember our football players, saying rude things about a political candidate in the locker room when they did not know they could be heard? That is what I would call free speech in the first place, and youthful high jinks at worst. Yet they did not get away with it, and it is possible some … More Diferenciando
…and adjunctification. Part-time faculty and academic values. Patrick O’Donnell’s bibliography (very comprehensive, with many important-sounding titles I did not know of or am not familiar enough with). KEY is that the institutions are not OK (note how the Wall Street Journal has endorsed torture supporter and Amazon Basin destroyer Bolsonaro for President of Brazil, for … More On the corporatization
So I have a truly major speaker coming, a project I did not think would be a good use of my time but that others wanted done, and they have now quit their roles in making the event truly happen well. On the other hand, I am being told I am doing a wonderful job … More “Opportunity cost?”
Something I really dislike that men do at work is go into hysterical fits about how the institution is dying and only I can help save it, beg me to help them with a major institution-saving project, convince me to commit to it 50%, and then forget about their 50% … and THEN act irritated … More Plus jamais
…that make me want to avoid it. Shame, which causes lethargy and withdrawal, which causes avoidance. Meanwhile, more interestingly: …trauma, anger, repression, self-recrimination, rebellion, claustrophobia, impatience, restlessness, desire to explore, desire to live, desire not to be entombed …I really need to unpack all of this. Axé.
Here are 45 pages on Trump’s tax fraud case in New York. Meanwhile, I am trying to work on my much more mundane activism cases. I have these notes: The AAUP, if it goes into a “death spiral,” will not do so for lack of money but because people leading it do not admit how … More Podem-me prender, and so on
Kavanaugh and his friends say it doesn’t matter, these things don’t matter, they’re rites of passage for men, and they say this while, in some cases, also defending rights of rapists to prevent their victims from aborting. It’s the whole package that has people disgusted. I do tend to agree that K.’s record, and the … More C’était quoi?
* Re-find also that Berkeley professor working on history of business, plantation and corporation. Canonical critical race theory sees race as a modern invention, and often says it came in with the Enlightenment (sometimes moving back to the early modern period, but not earlier. This is not accurate. (See 261-62 for a list of major … More The invention of race in the European Middle Ages. A research post
I must clean up this browser. On Charles V, African slavery. Impact of the slave trade on Africa. Bhabha: race, time, modernity. Literary whiteness. New research on 1518 voyages. Popes, the Catholic church, and the 1518 voyages. Slavery in the New Netherlands. The Iberian slave trade. From plantation to corporation. Caitlin Rosenthal. Slave narratives from … More Bookmarks for the current paper
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