Heaven

12/12/2017

Here is the beginning of one of my stories that never gets published. Others may not, but I like my own style. How many roads lead to Heaven? If you trip on the bridge, do you fall? Had some event marked Una, did a single moment fix her to her chair? Or was it an … More Heaven

Found phrases

12/12/2017

“It is I who have learned to stand in my own way because of having been taught it was illegitimate that I could do these things, and inappropriate that I should be happy.” That was in a computer file I am deleting. Axé.

Pour mon article

11/12/2017

Nothing I am saying about the neoliberal university has not been said before, but in popular discourse, including among professors and within universities, people are acting as though it had not been. Therefore, my article is necessary and is not redundant. What is fresh is my focus on vocabulary. My point is similar to one … More Pour mon article

Azorín

10/12/2017

We’ll read him next semester. «Nuestro atraso cultural se evidencia cuando nos comparamos con otras naciones. Aún no se han impuesto aquí con toda fuerza el derecho, la libertad, el deber. La tierra clásica del honor es la tierra de la arbitrariedad: en política, en el caciquismo deshonroso; en literatura, el elogio interesado y la … More Azorín

Resist

09/12/2017

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

Rien n’est fini

03/12/2017

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

Sur la linguistique

03/12/2017

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