This week has brought me around to constantly referencing Foucault in my mind. It all began with two discussions about whether or not Foucault is a structuralist, post-structuralist, or post-post structuralist (I was pretty sure I made that up till I found an article written...
Aristide returned to Haiti today. I made the mistake of clicking on the first article that popped up. The LA Times managed to publish a poorly written article that somehow lack any actual analysis of any of the history or implication of his return beyond...
There's been a long pause of bated breath as Haitians await his return. There is tension about his request for return. CNN, in its usual bland style, gently reminds readers that: Aristide was Haiti's first democratically-elected president. He was toppled in 2004 after a bloody...
I can speak now. We've had our job talks, had our rounds of negotiations and have landed on a future professor for our department. What i don't understand is how, in a job talk, when speaking about something (which will remain anonymous for the speaker's sake)...
It's very easy to get caught up in our respective areas of darkness - the weight of neoliberal restructuring of capital flows, the constraints and functions of the nation-state, the difficulties and presuppositions of development programs, the utter devastation of economic pressures on ecological fragility,...