There are at least four books with this title, and more that address some aspect of the idea that neoliberalism has a culture, and that we are in it. Jeremy Gilbert: “What kind of thing is ‘neoliberalism’? This collection of essays explores a range of possible answers to this question, arguing that neoliberalism is a … More Neoliberal culture
Category: Banes … More La diagnosis
Night of May 30: Apalachicola Nights of May 31, June 1: Fort Myers Beach Saturday June 2 (evening) – Sunday June 10 (morning): Tampa — WORK Sunday June 10-Thursday, June 14 (morning): Penn Institute (SC) Thursday June 14-Sunday June 17: Washington — WORK Sunday June 17-Sunday June 24 or thereabouts: Baltimore and then Chesapeake country, … More My beach odyssey in draft
Tarpon Springs (near Clearwater) Passe-a-Grille (beach near Tampa) Biloxi’s Balmoral Inn is recommended although I feel one might as well sleep in Florida or New Orleans I want to stay at the Buena Vista Motel in Mexico Beach and the Gibson Inn in Apalachicola. Axé.
Grade Post to Moodle Get mail Buy paint Go to appointment #1 Go to work group, there to write letters of recommendation Go to gym. What I want to do is keep writing. I’ve spent a lot of time on research and writing lately and it is good for me, but I am terrified someone … More I will
Three books: Reframing Latin America Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea I Speak of the City (on CDMEX) I need to get rid of books, not acquire them, but I want these. I do wish we had a meaningful library. For tatteredness, not uselessness, I am recycling Tristes Tropiques, Appleby’s The Music … More Quiero
It’s the first day of spring, rebirth, and the equinox, that turning point of the world, and it is beautiful and clear, luminous, springlike in all senses, in a way we rarely get here. I stayed up too late and life’s events and the semester have created turmoil, but I can see the spring so … More Spring equinox
The new (and last) piece will follow on this one and will start out talking about the question of trust and solidarity: do we really have these, are we really one faculty? Part of why we are not is hierarchical management and part of it is that in situations where basic survival is at stake, … More Writing about the university as a site of class struggle
My third post to this blog of a professional organization could start out talking about the argument I had with New Faculty Majority people, about adjunctification and related matters. They kept saying they did not want tenure, only long contracts and good pay, and that people like me were utterly antiquated, unfair, and “tone deaf” … More An answer to my other post
I wrote this, and with Clarissa wrote a sequel, but there is a third that must come. Some questions: does anyone believe in shared governance any more? or academic freedom (or do they only believe in free speech)? If the university is corporatized and the administration ignores mechanisms for shared governance, do institutions like Senate … More That third post
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