I would like to take advantage of this blog to comment something I’m very happy about. Lots of people say that consumerism is most pristine expression of neoliberalism, but ¿who could resist to buy half price books? I would like to confess that in the past Cyberday I spent my savings on books (forgive me, Marx), what else could I do if Buscalibre had them on half-price, only problem is that they will delay close to a month, blessed patience. Between more interesting books I bought it’s found “the adventures of merchandise” of Anselm Jappe, book that I thought would be useful for my thesis project, thing that my professor sharply denied (maybe I should have asked before buy it), therefore, it would have to wait in the bookshelf until it’s time comes. The other interesting book is “the cheese and the worms” of Carlos Ginzburg, a story that tell us the ravings of a middle-aged miller named Menocchio, who believed that the world was a huge cheese, from which the angels were formed that were literally worms. This book is supposed to be useful for a work in the course of anthropology and history, the objective is to compare Menocchio with the popular Divino Anticristo, let’s hope the book arrives before the end of the month, or I will have to read it from internet.
In first place, I think that the offer of subjects in the anthropology career is very limited, if you check the academic offer of the same career in different universities around the world is easy to confirm this fact. This due on one hand for the lack of professors and their low salaries, you can see it in the difference of these if you compare the salaries of the professors for example Beucheff or the FEN and the FACSO or the philosophy faculty, clearly something is working wrong. On the other hand, I think that the university on itself must leave the conservative that it is nowadays and stop living only from its history and international prestige, it most decidedly moves forward to the innovation and academic excellence. It also has to make flexible the internal bureaucracy that puts it many times in a immobility or slowness at the time of front facing changes and challenges of XXI century; and not just this big changes at macrosocial level, but this also translate in difficul...
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