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Independence Day
This post is being written in real time. There are posts coming up which actually predate it. Remember that this novel is modernist and follows no chronological order. I have declared independence at … more →
Professor Zero
Independence Day
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profacero wrote 1 day ago: This post is being written in real time. There are posts coming up which actually predate it. Rememb … more →
How Was It for You? Terrible! And for You?
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profacero wrote 4 days ago: I keep saying I have vanquished Reeducation but it is never quite true. Now, however, I think I have … more →
The Legal History Blog
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profacero wrote 2 weeks ago: I used to have a recurring dream in which I called my mother from my office at Yale University, hold … more →
States of Our Fields: Open Thread
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profacero wrote 2 weeks ago: I am still on strike. But Samia recommends Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? She says … more →
Postscript on Those Ladies. Excursus on Vampires Who Seek Blood, or on Cannibals Who Seek Fresh Meat.
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profacero wrote 3 weeks ago: Qui potest capere, capiat: this post is a bagatelle and footnote to various earlier posts, and I am … more →
From Lynn Hunt. The Ancestors.
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profacero wrote 1 month ago: This is perhaps a cryptic post. My implied audience is myself. I am still on strike, but the le … more →
On "Changing" Higher Education
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profacero wrote 1 month ago: First, an epigraph of sorts from Dr. Crazy, who first answered the question ten of us were asked. He … more →
The Moscow Rules
profacero wrote 1 month ago: As seen at Clio Bluestocking, The Moscow Rules: 1. Assume nothing 2. Never go against your gut 3. Ev … more →
Jeffrey Davidow
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: Read this on Davidow, from the Huffington Post. Look at his background, and observe his rhetoric. Ye … more →
A Second Heretical Post, a Story, and a Question
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: Heresy In my experience the decorous things to say are that teaching is fun, writing is work, publis … more →
A Heretical Post
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: Writing is fun and publishing is easy. I know it is heresy to say that, so I will repeat it througho … more →
Reverberating Whitemen
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: I have had strong reactions recently to various posts on how to be an academic, and to one on leavin … more →
From the File
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profacero wrote 5 months ago: Student I Insisted Go To A Larger Graduate Program Than Ours: Dear Professor Zero, This is just to s … more →
Branford Marsalis
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profacero wrote 5 months ago: On teaching, via A Gentleman’s C. Here comes more classic Branford, but do not fail to click o … more →
What Is A Scholar? or, Primordial River. Original Groove
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profacero wrote 6 months ago: ERRORS OF MY WAYS/JOB DESCRIPTION What my job ideal description was and is: Active, fast-paced caree … more →
Stolen from Servetus
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profacero wrote 6 months ago: Servetus says being a scholar … * is about having a question or questions you need to answer. … more →
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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profacero wrote 6 months ago: MUSIC TO GRADE BY It is a working weekend, so we will sing work songs! I never paid a great dea … more →
Christina Crosby
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: Now we will take notes on Christina Crosby, “Writer’s Block, Merit, and the Market: Work … more →
C'est si simple
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: At Thanksgiving Maman, meaning Grandmother, made comments in French about the sillier of the grandch … more →
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