Well, for one thing, if we are to have a state-wide organizing campaign I think it should be about tuition and its relationship to state disinvestment in higher education. Here is why. State disinvestment is the inciting incident for this phenomenon. We can and should be critical of some of the institutional responses to that … More Quoi faire
Most people I know either ignore online teaching because of the problems and the hype, and being tired of staring into screens already. Others are so gung-ho about it that they ignore the problems. One problem, I have discovered, in a neighboring R-1 is that this firm, Academic Partnerships, that runs their platform, also gets … More Academic Partnerships, the company
Giroux on Facebook today: Fascist regimes wage a war against societies with strong social bonds and in doing so turn people against all notions of the public good, compassion, the government, working people, and the mesh of democratically inspired social relations. Instead of dignity, collective rights, social provisions, and a celebration of the public imagination, … More L’université, la lutte
A Kindle Paperwhite. Jonathan Mayhew’s new Lorca book. I am also considering getting this book via Interlibrary Loan, an entity I keep forgetting. I will order it through ILL and hope they do not make me read it as an e-book. I could also just buy it. Book = $105. Kindle plus e-version, on the … More Things I am considering buying
The intellectual and the state: modernismo and transculturation from below. Beasley-Murray. And there is all this interesting work on the Amazon, and the Peruvian avant-garde, and Zevallos-Aguilar has written so much, and I am spread too thin. (I am going through files, as you can see.) And Steven White’s article on Afro-Brazilian poetry is on … More And more fascinating files
Harvest of Empire, that I must watch — Stuart Hall, Race, the floating signifier A Georgia sharecropper’s narrative — The Bayou Brief: Petrostate I saw your face … I felt infinite wonder, infinite pity Jazz Lives. This is a whole blog I must link to. Look at their Memories of Club Hangover Afro-Colonial Legislation in … More Fascinating files
Department of e-mails not sent: Dear committee member, The question would be what gives you the right to speak in this tone to anyone. If the dean, an AAUP member, confuses tenure track/tenured with FTE NTT, which I highly doubt he does, it would be our job to point out the error. To keep these … More Taking the high road
I have my own domain name, because I am tired of having ads on this site. I want it to be a new spell … I should perhaps have gotten a new identity, but I got a domain name. * This, of course, is why I am fixated on the question of curriculum. What I … More Mais c’est nouveau
Working at a university that is cannibalizing itself, in department that is, and a state that is, is disheartening and it is hard not to feel downhearted, not to feel joy. I used to be energized by work and inspired by what happened on campus — it was why I liked school — but here … More Cannibalizing
Jerónimo Arellano has an article in RHM (2016) called “The screenplay in the archive: screenwriting, new cinemas, and the Latin American boom.” The boom novelists also wrote screenplays, not all of which were published. This raises a number of interesting questions I am interested in the article primarily for purposes of course creation. Could one … More Another film course
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