In Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]

Catalog essay for “Brotherville,” photographic exhibition by Farah Al Qasimi

Environmental engineering education is enhanced by the internet with web pages full of information, instructions, photos, and videos of installations and equipment, and with means of communication that facilitate alerts to new developments. Students who have grown up with years of using the internet have different expectations and computer…[Read more]

DEDICATION: This technical paper is published in memory of our senior author, Dr. Donald B. Aulenbach, who worked closely with Professors Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, William A. Selke, Milos Krofta and Daniel Guss from 1981 to 2019 for developing a humanitarian engineering program at the Lenox Institute of Water…[Read more]

This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]

This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]

Public health in twenty-first century Ghana is mired with several issues ranging from the inadequacy of
public health facilities, improper settlement planning, insanitary conditions, and the inadequacy of laws
and their implementation. This situation compared to the colonial era is a direct contradiction.
Development in the pre-colonial era to…[Read more]

Nazih Shammas, Lawrence K. Wang, Luiz Claudio de Queiroz Faria, and Marco Aurelio Chaves Ferro (2013), ABASTECIMENTO de AGUA e REMOCAO de RESIDUOS (Spanish). Water Supply and Wastewater Removal — Water and Wastewater Engineering. Third Edition. 751 pages, Livros Tecnicos e Cientificos Editora Ltda (LTC) Grupo Editorial Nacional (GEN),…[Read more]

Wang, Lawrence K, Hung, Yung-Tse, Lo, Howard H, Yapijakis, Constantine and Ribas, Alberto lbarz (2008). TRATAMIENTO de los RESIDUOS de la INDUSTRIA del PROCESADO de ALIMENTOS (Spanish). Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry. Editorial ACRIBIA, S. A.,, Apartado 466, 50080, Zaragoza, Espana. 398 pages. ISBN 978-84-200-1103-5…[Read more]

This essay argues that the tension in Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe springs from the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death, which outlines how Christianity tacitly incorporates (but doe…[Read more]

Despite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]

W. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]

Montgomery, M, Knight, J, Heuckeroth, D, and Walker, W. (2020). Community-based latrine development with “Engineers Without Borders – USA”. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 2, Number 6, June 2020; 27 pages. Lenox Institute…[Read more]

Su, M, Shih, K and Chen, D (2020). Cadmium detoxification by sintering with ceramic matrices. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 2, Number 3, March 2020; 38 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Newtonville, NY, 12128-0405, USA. No.…[Read more]

Kaya, D, and Hung, YT (2020). Treatment of vegetable oil refining wastes. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 2, Number 2, February 2020; 80 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Newtonville, NY, 12128-0405, USA. No.…[Read more]

Wang, LK, Wang MHS and Thayer, AE (2019). A spectrophotometrical method for determination of dissolved proteins in water or wastewater. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 1, Number 12, December 2019; 57 pages. Lenox Institute…[Read more]

Wang, LK, Wang, MHS, and Wong, JM (2019). Fiber separation using innovative circular gravity flotation and fiber detector. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 1, Number 11, November 2019; 68 pages. Lenox Institute Press,…[Read more]

Call for Proposals

Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power

Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more]