Spanish abstract: Un comentario sobre el proceso en curso de reforma de las titulaciones superiores en el sistema universitario español (en 2005-2006). Un episodio en el que el Ministerio de Educación abandona sus planes de suprimir la mayoría de las titulaciones de Humanidades y de Filología. ___…[Read more]

In this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more]

In this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more]

As neural language models begin to change aspects of everyday life, they understandably attract criticism. This position paper was commissioned for a roundtable at Princeton University, dedicated to one of the most influential critiques: “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru,…[Read more]

BB 9-2 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik – Однозвучно
гремит колокольчик ) – Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell – T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров
M.: first Alexander Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K.
Сидорович – piano – audio

BB 9-2 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik – Однозвучно
гремит колокольчик ) – Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell – T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров – M.: first Alexander – Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. – Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K.
Сидорович – piano- sheetmusic

BB 9-1 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik)
Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров – M.: first Alexander Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K. Сидорович – 2 vibraphones solo – sheetmusic

Maros River, all ungherese – Gipsy tune – Maros vize folyik cszendesen – piano solo – 2:10 – video (plus music plus pics from maros / Mures river)

Maros River, all ungherese – Maros vize folyik csendesen – piano solo – 1:05 / 2:10 – audio

Maros River, all ungherese – Gipsy tune – Maros vize folyik cszendesen – piano solo – pdf – sheetmusic

English Abstract: In the context of the Spanish reform of the university degree system begun in 2005 under the PSOE Ministry of Education, this paper denounces the manipulation of representative mechanisms on the part of the CCU (Council of University Coordination), impeding a consultation with the Universities by way of transforming the Rectors…[Read more]

A comment on the division of work in the Third Cycle of higher education in the Spanish university. The Catedrático gets all the PhD candidates who are able to really write a dissertation on their own, that´s why they “work” more and their job is easier. (Paper written 2011)

My notes (taken c. 1990) on Geoffrey Leech’s ‘Principles of Pragmatics’ (London: Longman, 1983). Pagination on the left; my parenthetical comments in italics.

The third volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes six full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2020 virtual DH Benelux conference. Contents: 1. Editor’s Preface (Wout Dillen, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp); 2. Introduction: Digital Humanities Online (Antske Fokkens, Christian Gosvig…[Read more]

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) wrote and published in an era in which a highly developed erotic code was adopted by dozens and dozens of writers in Italy, and presumably understood by tens of thousands of readers in Europe. A most helpful text for decoding the erotic lexicon was written by Jean Toscan: Le carnaval du langage: le lexique érotique des…[Read more]

In 1525, Pietro Bembo in his Prose della volgar lingua published a condemnation of Dante’s Comedy that has often passed for linguistic and cultural criticism, yet might be better understood as satire.

Reflections on artist Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset