Thank God I found a burning tree,

After he made over them the sign of the cross, and commended them to God, they instantly said that all the pain had left,

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

near the shore, they began to move on hands and feet, crawling to land into some ravines

He answered that it was no longer a time in which one should com- mand another] but that each should do what he thought best to save his own life ; that he so intended to act; and saying this, he departed with his boat...

caused their interpreter to tell the Indians that we were of them, and for a long time we had been lost; that they were the lords of the land who must be obeyed and served, while we were persons of mean condition and small force. The Indians cared little or nothing for what was told them; and conversing among themselves said the Christians lied : that we had come whence the sun rises, and they whence it goes down : we healed the sick, they killed the sound ; that we had come naked and barefooted, while they had arrived in clothing and on horses with lances; that we were not covetous of anything, but all that was given to us, we directly turned to give, remaining with nothing; that the others had the only purpose to rob whomsoever they found, bestow- ing nothing on any one... Even to the last, I could not convince the Indians that we were of the Christians...

e had many high words with, them ; for they wished to make slaves of the Indians we brought...

astonished at the sight of me

The sight was one of infinite pain to us

e told the natives that we were going in search of that people, to order them not to kill nor make slaves of them, nor take them from their lands, nor do other injustice. Of this the Indians were very glad.

certain men who wore beards like us, had come from heaven and arrived at that river; bringing horses, lances, and swords, and that they had lanced two Indians

we knew not how to construct, nor were there tools, nor iron, nor forge, nor tow, nor resin, nor rigging; finally, no one thing of so many that are necessary, nor any man who had a knowledge of their manufacture;

They go naked, are large of body, and ap- pear at a distance Uke giants

for whom the good armor they wore did not avail. There were those this day who swore that they had seen two red oaks, each the thickness of the lower part of the leg, pierced through from side to side by arrows

In view of the poverty of the land, the unfavorable accounts of the population and of everjrthing else we heard, the Indians making continual war upon us, wounding our people and horses at the places where they went to drink, shooting from the lakes with such safety to themselves that we could not retaliate, killing a lord of Tescuco,^ named Don Pedro, whom the Com- missary brought with him, we determined to leave that place

incursions

detention of a cacique by the Governor produced great excitement, in consequence of which they returned for battle early the next day,

I have written this with much exactness ; and although in it may be read things very novel and for some persons difficult to believe, nevertheless they may without hesitation credit me as strictly faithful. Better than to exaggerate, I have lessened in all things,

that if at any time God our Lord should will to bring me where I now am, it might testify to my exertion in the royal behalf.

And in the case of humanistic critique from the left, the critic holds that their own engagement not even produced by the defense or advancement of self-interest.

E.g., the reason you believe you can play the chess game of framings and positionality is that you know more and know better than the plebians you’re trying to move and mobilize.

theory and interpretation are hacks in their own right,

What’s the politics, so I know where to place this experience in my catalog of affirmations and confirmations. It was in its own way as instrumentalized a response as an engineering major listening to a presentation by a cosmologist about string theory and then saying, “Ok, but what can I make with this?”

Nothing much depends upon such arguments except our own individual sense of self in relation to our profession.

sacred artifacts of disciplinary craft like the monograph or peer review are older than a generation or two in their commonality

the academy as professors have known it in their working lives is. It is in its forms of labor, in its structures of governance, in its political capital, in its finances. That’s what makes the tension within the ranks of the few remaining tenured faculty who work at financially secure private institutions so interesting (because otherwise they are so atypical of what now constitutes academic work). Why should anxiety about the future afflict even those who have far less reason for anxiety?

It can be qualitative leading the way to our asking better questions, developing empathy, and deeply understanding what matters in education.

Since that time white men have come to America.

think that the Indian who told me this story (P.) was aware of its feebleness, and was ashamed to attribute such nonsense to Glooskap,

He wished to have his mother christened. It was done. They called her Molly. 

They put him into a great cannon and fired it off. They looked into the cannon, and there he sat smoking his stone pipe, knocking the ashes out.

proper remedy.

beginning to be cramped for room.

Fall of Man

And since that day the Indians, who should have been great, have become a little people. Truly it would have been wise and well for those of early times if they could have held their tongues.

do ye not know Katahdin by them?

Declare unto these people that they are not to inquire of thee who is the father of thy child;

big snake

Around Christmas

cults

as hashtag to both unite a community of learners and provide a common tool to use as an introduction to those outside the boundaries of the community.

As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.”

need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention.

is there any intellectually sound reason for examining arbitrarily anthologized particles of many separate tradi- tions in connection with each other

the technical at the expense of the human.

The hegemony of traditional public universities

lament completion rates

failures

Nathan Jurgenson

almost as a matter of faith.

Meet face to face, without your phones every so often. Make your offline time valuable. Read old books. Love things without shame and take time to consider who you are away from all the things in the world trying to tell you who to be.

digital literacy is our best chance at true freedom

quitting on the world

everyone into a superhero.

I would know you better than your family does, or perhaps even than you know yourself.

net

radical openness

radical openness

database marketing — what’s more commonly called analytics now.

I’m not yet really a part of the academic — or any other — profession

the more instrumental your approach, the less effective it will be

“real”

it’s especially difficult if (like me) you’re an introvert,