Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa

Mexicana, gringüita, world citizen. Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Mind, Epistemology, and Latin American philosophy (She/They)

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

I'm probably done using Twitter now, but I just want to post one last thing: Robert Reich put up his UC Berkeley "Wealth and Poverty" lectures on YouTube recently and so far although the basics are well-understood I'm finding them a 10/10, highly recommend.
Stay classy, folks.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

Most tuition goes to paying salaries directly. The endowment is not used for that. And "capital projects" pay for new buildings and sometimes new programs. I think what it means is colleges are actually unsustainable under current standards.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

My kid just turned 1. Quietly trying to process that by the time she's an adult her college might cost half a million dollars to complete.

As a college prof, I'm wondering: is it me, hi? Am I the problem, me?

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

I could blame admin, but let's be honest most admin don't make that much, and admin leadership are mostly faculty on promotions.

We're probably building too much new and not using enough endowment return on our biggest costs: building maintenance, employee salaries + benefits.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

May I remind NYC Mayor Eric Adams that, as Cher Horowitz famously said, "It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty" ?
Why don't you kick out multimillionaires who own dozens of empty condos instead of telling migrants the US is full?
https://t.co/05Sv9IKNlT

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

This is the point in the summer where I start to freak out about how quickly the first half went and realize I don't have time for everything

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

@Catherineoscopy @ColumbiaUP Congrats Catherine!

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

Still one of my favorite quips from Sor Juana's Reply to Sor Filotea (Reply: 832-858)

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

“Many men study to become ignorant, especially those with arrogant characters...[to them] it does more harm to know ... because, although it is the best nourishment and life for the soul, [like in a bad digestive system] the more they study, the worse the opinions they engender”

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

Respectfully: one has to work so hard to extract the good ideas in Wittgenstein (and lean hard on his teachers and interpreters) that I almost venture to say the ideas aren't fully attributable to his own independent work.

[Regina Rini @rinireg]

Wittgenstein really was one of the worst humans to have good ideas

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

Hispanic and Black students have been among the least likely to attain college even before today's striking down of Affirmative Action, and all I can be is sad.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

I mean about the likelihood of stabbing, I accept that when anyone plans an armed insurrection they're way likelier to get stabbed. But sometimes insurrections are necessary in unjust societies so like sure college professors should get to participate in those if appropriate.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

So my only statement about the stabbing is that I don't want to be stabbed and I don't think being a college professor should increase anyone's likelihood of being stabbed, as a general rule, no matter how annoying we are.

If we're planning an armed insurrection, then, OK.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

Gosh I wish I was an aesthetic phenomenon

(I do want to read this book some day though)

[Alva Noe @alvanoe]

In this book I try to show that human being is an aesthetic phenomenon. This changes how we think about the project of cognitive science and the science of consciousness. It also lets us rethink our understanding of the place of art and philosophy in our lives.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

Finished the first-pass translation of Primero Sueño on this random Tuesday. 💁‍♀️(Why is there no nun emoji? But there are elves and vampires??)
Now for the other 12 months of editing (and eventually, moving on to The Reply to Sor Filotea)...

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

Just over 50 lines left to translate out of 975 and I feel like I've finally gotten a sense of SJ's deep style. I'm really not doing her justice yet but I think I've caught glimmers of hope that it can get better.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

@TomasRocha88 @rick_todhunter Temper your expectations, though, haha, this work is really among the most challenging for any translator, not least a little philosopher like me. But I hope after this first pass it will get heavy editing for both enjoyment and comprehension!

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

After over a year of on and off work, I have less than 150 lines left for a first-pass translation of Sor Juana's "Primero Sueño". It has been an excessively humbling experience.

[Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa @sofiaoh]

@TomasRocha88 Yes! @rick_todhunter is my editor at Hackett :)