Spanish abstract: El inmaterialismo del siglo XVIII nos enseñó que el mundo que habitamos no es de naturaleza física sino básicamente informacional o semiótica. Yendo más allá del constructivismo psicológico y de la fenomenología, nos sugieren Berkeley y otros que el mundo es una construcción mental—que habitamos, sin sospecharlo, en una realida…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: El inmaterialismo del siglo XVIII nos enseñó que el mundo que habitamos no es de naturaleza física sino básicamente informacional o semiótica. Yendo más allá del constructivismo psicológico y de la fenomenología, nos sugieren Berkeley y otros que el mundo es una construcción mental—que habitamos, sin sospecharlo, en una realida…[Read more]

The article uses Eric Voegelin’s ontology to address domestic processes in contemporary Ukraine. It explains how interpretations of experiences of history and transcendence evoke political order and justice. It also outlines the nature of political symbols deriving from these experiences. The article argues that Ukraine’s social architecture is…[Read more]

A note on the existential significance of Miguel de Unamuno’s metafiction. His novels question the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ which is the bedrock of workaday human reality. (A retropost from 2011).

Tucker Carlson interviews Dr. Peter McCullough (May 2021) – On the mismanagement of the Covid pandemic, on the suppression of early treatment for Covid, and on the mistaken or corrupt medical protocols and the shady policies surrounding the promotion Covid-19 “vaccines”. (Transcribed by José Angel García Landa at Ibercampus, June 6, 2021)

Text of my keynote talk at Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) about video game cultures, focusing on the global south.

Historical language comparison for the purpose of identifying cognates and sound correspondences in multilingual wordlists which can later be used to infer phylogenetic trees can be conveniently carried out in a framework of computer-assisted language comparison (see http://calc.digling.org), using tools for automatic inference, like LingPy…[Read more]

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O trabalho apresenta o resultado de um estudo empírico com o objetivo de analisar a produção do XX Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação de 2019 a fim de perceber os temas mais recorrentes a partir da análise textual dos resumos dos artigos. A amostra analisada consiste em 488 artigos distribuídos em 11 grupos de…[Read more]

QRt is digital pop ARt! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

QRt is digital pop ARt! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Vae terrae et mari! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

WARNING! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

WARNING! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

We offer an archaeological analysis of the visual display of “space heroes” and Orthodox icons in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS). This study is the first systematic investigation of material culture at a site in space. The ISS has now been continuously inhabited for 20 years. Here, focusing on the period 200…[Read more]

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

ALARM BELLS! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

In a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]

Silent Bells! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA