It is not what they do to you, it is what they can get you to do to yourself, is an important point for those of us who are dealing with misogyny or any kind of discrimination, really. Another thing to remember is that although we are constantly told that most people can never admit … More Resist
This was an issue of the journal I liked quite a lot at the time and always kept to reread, but that has yellowed. Yet we can still read it. Axé.
Here is a book we definitely need to get. Axé.
But it seems that my father is going to die. Here is something his accountant suggested as a mantra. In purest outpoured light, shimmers the godhead of the world… (it begins) this is a verse Rudolf Steiner wrote, so the godhead is many gods that have dwindled or died and live in the (ether-spiritual-other world, … More Rien n’est fini
Why was it that, back then when we were in Comparative Literature, we thought Linguistics was the other cool field? I think it had to do with not being a discipline that reproduced a nation-state or the Area Studies model, and that was theoretical, and that (we thought then) could begin to dismantle colonial arrangements … More Sur la linguistique
1. Catalan is a language, not a dialect. 2. All of Spanish America speaks Castilian. 3. There are very many literate Mexicans, including winners of the Nobel Prize in literature, and Mexicans are completely comprehensible to other Spanish speakers. 4. I, as a person who speaks educated Spanish and am really competent in it, can … More P.S.A.
I am disoriented because one of my longest standing blog correspondents is in hospice. This isn’t someone I have even met but it seems like having a family member die. Things do not last, and every day I grow closer to being the eldest, the one who must give answers and show sense, the responsible … More Les amours finissent un jour
Concept: capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, established by the instrumentality of things. (Note: I really should have spent all the time I spent trying to understand Derridean coursework into trying to understand Marx, and I am fairly sure the reason we had to read so much Derrida and Foucault … More David Harvey
I had meant to post some time ago that you should not tell your children they are inferior / defective / less than. We were told we were incompetent, although we could not see it (that was part of the incompetence). That was why we were to do things our parents liked. We would fail, … More Je voulais dire
It isn’t really a union fight, it is a struggle against patriarchal violence. Also, O union men, I am not sure how deeply conscious you are if the first solution you think of in difficult times is layoffs. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 