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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic CfP, “Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance” – ACLA Montréal in the discussion
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoFor distribution among scholars in: Comparative Literature, English, Cultural Studies, Communications, Spanish/Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Medical Humanities.
Ana Luengo (San Francisco State U) and I Alberto Ribas (Santa Clara University) are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montréal,…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Medkänsla vs extrem individualism av Dawkins själviska genfel-falsk premiss “gen själviskhet kommer vanligtvis att ge upphov till själviskhet i individuellt beteende = “begränsad form av altruism” vs 7 argument som backas upp av studier:- Sprecher-Fehr sp in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoDawkins felslutning – vederläggning av att “egoism” är den vanliga normen och att det bara finns “begränsade former av altruism” Till att börja med vill jag betona att “även bakterier är mer reproduktivt framgångsrika i närvaro av andra av sin egen art.” Jag menar att bakterier har anslutningsmöjligheter för guds skull!
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Cultural and Sociological Factors in School Shootings (brief) in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA point of information: there have been 288 school shootings in the United States since the 1990’s. Wikipedia cites 1 school shooting in India and 1 in the Philippines (I count two though the second is politically motivated. Ryan General – in his article – observes, “However, the school shootings that occur in the U.S. has never happened in the…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited “McDougall’s Mente grupal: la “impulsividad irrazonable” de los grupos es muy relevante – Encuesta: los estadounidenses negros temen más ataques racistas después del tiroteo en Buffalo” (Washington Post) – con una comparación con Durkheim, Geertz, in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoComo observaron los autores del artículo “Beyond the Group Mind: A Quantitative Review of the Interindividual-Intergroup Discontinuity Effect” que se publicó en Psychological Bulletin, se estima que solo en la última década del siglo XX, las guerras mortales de lugares como Ruanda, Bosnia y Etiopía cobraron la vida de 30 millones de personas y co…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited McDougall’s Group Mind – the “Unreasoning Impulsiveness” of groups are Very Relevant .”Poll: Black Americans fear more racist attacks after Buffalo shooting” the Washington Post (published 6-9-22) – w/ comparison to Durkheim, Geertz, + Bargh’s recent res in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAs the authors of the article “Beyond the Group Mind: A Quantitative Review of the Interindividual–Intergroup Discontinuity Effect” which was published in Psychological Bulletin, observed, It is estimated that just in the final decade of the twentieth century, the deadly wars of places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Ethiopia claimed the lives of 30 m…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited La muerte es un producto de su imaginación: la anatomía de la falacia definitiva como un estereotipo desadaptativo, – Argumento materialista de que “la espiritualidad es irreal” – está más allá de la medida [Miller y Thompson] – Crítica respaldada por el in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl escapismo extremo de los psicólogos materialistas impulsado por el materialismo académico y la Precisa “Profecía de Mar” de Jung – tan Recientemente Probada como Verdadera. Pregunta de un periodista a Carl Jung: ¿Cree que, dentro de veinte años, a alguien le importará el espíritu de los símbolos, de lleno en la era de los viajes interpl…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Thunder Gods, – nearly fifty storm gods including: Zeus, Thor, Indra, story of Zeus + Greek goddess Hera harass Heracles + Jane Goodall’s Apes’ response w/ Challenge Displays to a Violent Thunder Storm! – What We Can Learn From Myths about Human Mind in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHammering, loud peals of thunder had startled me into consciousness. As a young child of six, the storm had roused me from the comfortable oblivion of my deep sleep. The booming rolls of thunder had woken my father as well. His head peered from behind the door. Finding me awake, we went onto the porch of our summer cottage, which was perched high…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Experimental Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl momento fílmico: De ‘Hamlet’ a ‘Saraband’ https://www.academia.edu/14107431/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Experimental Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoLa Mort en Direct: https://www.academia.edu/12948280/
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Creencias espirituales como motivación e impulso: “1. selectividad” en neurociencia; 2. Religión y espiritualidad: sistemas de significado diseñados para las relaciones sociales 3. Gergen: “Quizás los eventos… necesitaron… Dios”. Prisma Espiritualidad in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoMotivación: Creencias espirituales como Impulso o Motivación.
Cuando hablas con “personas espirituales”, las creencias espirituales no son solo una motivación, sino una fuente muy profunda de inspiración y un impulso poderoso. En contraste, la espiritualidad como motivación brilla por su ausencia en gran parte de la academia propiamente dich…[Read more] -
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic The Film of the Book in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoReseña de ‘Film Adaptation’ (ed. James Naremore) https://www.academia.edu/12890219/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Women, Gender, & Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEmpezamos con una de Jane Campion. En la raja (In the Cut) https://www.academia.edu/12718189/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Philosophy and Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoRetropost, 2013: Margarethe von Trotta: Hannah Arendt https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/06/hannah-arendt-by-margarethe-von-trotta.html
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Science Fiction Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoI mean this in the sense of classic science fiction, excluding sword and sorcery fantasies and other well-established generic fantasies…. Eg. I, Robot: ¡Ay, robot! https://www.academia.edu/40832609/
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Building Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in “Blue Collar” (1978) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The company builds cars and destroys men” was the promotional tagline of one of the posters for “Blue Collar” (1978). Shot in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto playing three Detroit auto workers in financial despair who break into and rob the offices of their own union. “Blue Collar”…[Read more]
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Adolfo L. Vega deposited Me Encanta Ser Blanco: Joven, populista y racista. in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEste libro, ”Me encanta ser blanco…”, y sus 3 capitulos: 1) Joven, 2) Populista y 3) Racista, es una invitación a la reflexión y al debate acerca de por qué algunos jóvenes latinoamericanos se sienten atraídos por discursos populistas y racistas. Además, a través de un análisis ameno del denominado DOOMVERSE y su personaje principal Doomentio, el…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Participación comunitaria en los medios de comunicación. Perspectivas para el desarrollo local in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa producción de los medios de comunicación constituye una expresión de la sociedad que los gesta. Los grupos sociales que intervienen en la producción televisiva actualmente son herederos de la práctica funcionalista y trasmisiva de los medios tradicionales de comunicación (prensa plana, radio y televisión). En esa lógica los temas que se represe…[Read more]
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