Roxo sol, que con hacha luminosa coloras el purpúreo y alto cielo, ¿hallaste tal belleza en todo el suelo, qu’ iguale a mi serena Luz dichosa? Aura suäve, blanda y amorosa, que nos halagas con tu fresco buelo; cuando se cubre del dorado velo mi Luz, ¿tocaste trença más hermosa? Luna, onor de la noche, … More Fernando de Herrera, Soneto X
Last year, the state moved for dismissal, arguing that the 14th Amendment contains no reference to literacy. Then, last week, U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III agreed with the state. Literacy is important, the judge noted. But students enjoy no right to access to being taught literacy. All the state has to do is make … More More for “Language and the entrepreneurial university”
I should have driven further but traffic was thick and it is raining, so I have stopped in Charlottesville. I started out in northern Maryland, driving to Washington, DC where I parked off the national mall and went to the Cézanne exhibit at the National Gallery, which is worthwhile. The gift shop at the National … More A brief and subjective review of Charlottesville, Virginia
***Alternatives to the current university: Edu-factory, more. ***Bosquet: adjunct women wildcatting will be what saves us. Is this an adequate hope? Can we all get together to reeducate the public / rebuild the idea of the public and the public good? ***Asking for accountability from administratons: the LARB article. ***AAUP needs much closer connections regional/national, … More Remnants of that article draft
These are some things I may do to expand my health program: Magic 10 yoga poses. Givamukti yoga. Tumeric with black pepper. Reduce caffeine. Acupuncture. Swimming, push-ups, backbends, locust pose, squats. Axé.
Union busting is democracy busting. Inverted totalitarianism: contexts of the entrepreneurial university. Nair on going actually radical. Axé.
I am so tired of having to psychoanalyze myself and also of finding that I keep coming to the same conclusions yet do not progress, or progress so slowly. In any case my insight, new for today is that a great part of my struggle here has to do with not having come here by my … More Insight du jour — once again
How to get them out. Axé.
I learned that the national domestic violence hotline is the best one, and the New Orleans family justice center is the best place. I learned about this book, Why does he do that, that is the most serious one I have seen. Most importantly, I learned about Creative Interventions. Axé.
I told you language was key. Dispossession, infantilization, and depoliticization are central to the discourse of neoliberalism in which language is central to moulding identities, desires, values, and social relationships. Within this fog of market-induced paralysis, language is subject to the laws of the capitalism, reduced to a commodity, and subject to the “tyranny of … More Language and the entrepreneurial university
coldhearted scientist وداد 