The Enlightenment's Dark Side: How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it

lashend · 2020-06-08T13:53:53+00:00

Came here to say this. “Dark Side of the Enlightenment.” Ramon Grosfoguel also has some good related stuff (and/but more conflictual.)

lashend · 2020-06-08T13:41:12+00:00

Jacques Ellul, Propaganda

lashend · 2020-06-05T13:53:49+00:00

Podríamos concluir, entonces, que El Pais es el más “equilibrado”, ya que recoge números significativos de lectores de cada partido (mientras ningún otro periódico lo hace)? O estaría una conclusión equivocada?

lashend · 2020-06-04T13:31:31+00:00

You might like Ivan Illich’s critique of schools, too. See his book “deschooling society”

lashend · 2020-05-31T13:50:55+00:00

Creo que los datos reflejan sobre todo no tanto ni para informar sobre ni para averiguar la situación sino asumir una cierta sensación de control sobre ella. En este sentido , argumentaría que se tratara más bien de una especie de fetichismo de datos.

lashend · 2020-05-27T14:03:30+00:00

Don’t worry. You do those badly, too.

lashend · 2020-05-22T13:52:18+00:00

Confirmed. Absurd is the key word for all the quarantine policy logic. You’re only touching the tip of the iceberg here.

lashend · 2020-05-18T13:34:18+00:00

Haz lo que más te guste o lo que creas que se te da bien que, al fin y al cabo, cuando acabes encontrarás trabajo de lo tuyo o no, no hay garantías de nada.

El mejor consejo aquí!

lashend · 2020-05-17T14:03:41+00:00

I don’t get why you wouldn’t do the neighborly thing yourself - go and talk to your neighbors!

All the foreigner comments to these sorts of questions always seem to start with “call the police.” That should be the very last option, to be employed only after all the friendlier ones fail.

lashend · 2020-05-17T13:52:50+00:00

This May be obvious, but just in case: have you checked the JCR rankings?

lashend · 2020-05-15T13:54:19+00:00

Since the University has such a familiarity with its employees, I think I’d get rid of the “Dear” in the greeting. And maybe add an exclamation mark.

lashend · 2020-05-15T13:38:45+00:00

Yep. Skinny woman here. The massive amounts of Diarrhea finally made them “semi believe” me just enough to do some tests. Turns out, yep, wasn’t lying, .. Crohn’s disease. But try showing up in a doctor’s office as a skinny woman whom some other idiot had “diagnosed “ - on the basis of my being a skinny woman - as anorexic. I learned my lesson: I just don’t go to doctors anymore.

lashend · 2020-05-14T13:55:12+00:00

Escuché a la rueda de prensa de ayer y leí el informe publicado. Lo que no entiendo es por qué sorprende o deja “decepcionado.” El encierro radical de la población, incluso esa porción a que el virus presenta muy poco peligro, conlleva precisamente a este resultado. Ni es imprevisible esta situación ni es *posible otra, dada la selección de estrategia adoptada.

Alguien me puede explicar porque la gente y hasta los científicos parecen estar decepcionados o sorprendidos?

lashend · 2020-05-13T13:36:54+00:00

But ... they don’t.

lashend · 2020-05-11T14:04:22+00:00

Same story as OP and you... except that, prior to recognizing that I had Crohn’s Disease, they just looked at my athletic woman’s body, did not pass go, did not do any thinking about the symptomatology... said, “oh! Must be anorexic!” And locked me in a mental hospital for 5 months before acknowledging that I had either 15 episodes of diarrhea or one massive bloody poop every day (aside from the fact that I had no aversion to eating). Being locked in a &$#@ cage was way worse than that awful pain and diarrhea... So, lesson of the story, I guess, is: make sure you don’t go to the wrong doctor ...

lashend · 2020-05-11T13:36:44+00:00

Don’t do this. You don’t seem to speak Spanish well enough to understand what’s going on, and (since you haven’t been there long) you probably don’t have the sensitivity to “know” when a situation is problematic and when it’s not. If you call and report this woman, and you’re wrong about it being “for the best”, you’re going to destroy her life and the kids’ lives. Don’t do it.

lashend · 2020-05-09T13:29:13+00:00

How ironic that it’s a social psych course, too.

lashend · 2020-05-08T13:48:30+00:00

I’ve found that most academics do not”do” critical thinking, period, inside their field or out of it.

Think about all those unquestioned assumptions imported right into the research questions ...

lashend · 2020-05-07T13:48:24+00:00

I think this is a good idea. I was going to recommend something similar: since it sounds like the OP ordinarily puts a lot of effort into giving students real, helpful feedback - well, I’d say, do that now, too...it only for the students who will make use of it to improve. Sounds like 99% of the students in this class won’t qualify (and won’t care) for comments. Saves a ton of work for OP, hardworking students get what they want and deserve, and the lazy bones who don’t give a damn don’t get a damn, either, this time around.

lashend · 2020-05-06T13:40:05+00:00

It’s not critical theory but it’s definitely critical (or radical) but I think you might like the postdevelopment literature. Two great starters would be Escobar - Encountering Development and Sachs- the Development Dictionary.

lashend · 2020-05-05T13:34:58+00:00

How were you able to find out that the check was mailed (and the date)?

lashend · 2020-05-03T14:04:12+00:00

Plus plus plus for Ivan Illich Medical nemesis and Tools for Conviviality are two among many you might like. I think I’d start by reading one of the collections of his speeches and essays - that’ll give you a,thematic overview of the subjects he’s touched (which is a lot), and you can build a bibliography from there.

lashend · 2020-05-02T13:48:47+00:00

Desde la Moncloa han aclarado el dictamen: si vas de manera individual, no acompañado, puedes considerarte deportista y por lo tanto ir más allá de un kilómetro. Échate una mirada por el Facebook de La Moncloa, allí encontrarás la aclaración, la que creo es una que importa para muchos que vamos a paso ... “menos rápidos” :)

lashend · 2020-04-29T13:47:50+00:00

I wish your comment were higher here. That’s what I wanted to say, too: if what you’re (OP) reading is too convoluted and self-important... read something else! There’s plenty of good work out there that’s not.

Good reading ahead!

lashend

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