Spanish abstract: La película ‘Contagio’ (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011) pertenece al género ‘catástrofe – multiprotagonista’, aquí potenciado por varias circunstancias. La catástrofe es mundial y creíble, una epidemia de una gripe mortífera, como la Peste Negra, o como la Peste Escarlata de Jack London. Y la catástrofe se difunde por las relacione…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Comentarios sobre la guerra desde un punto de vista etológico y evolucionista, sugeridos por el libro de Javier Falgueras ‘Somos Hijos de la Guerra’. _________________________________________________________________________________ English abstract: Disquisitions on war from an ethological and evolutionary perspective, suggested…[Read more]

Science presupposes the acceptance of discussion and controversy. There is no official truth in science; The search for any conceivable truth is only possible in a context of freedom. Official truths led Giordano Bruno to the stake and Galileo to a false retraction (“eppur si muove’); nevertheless official truths continue to thrive, like und…[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]

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)

The dual curriculum model ubiquitous to Orthodox Jewish day schools in North America typically bifurcates into religious (Judaic) studies and general studies. While most classes generally fit into one of those two halves of the curriculum, some classes are not intuitively categorized as wholly belonging to one part over the other. One of those…[Read more]

Among the monuments of Brazilian modernist architecture, the Catetinho, built in 1956 near the construction site of Brasília, is one of a kind. The only surviving work by Oscar Niemeyer built out of wood, it was intended to be a temporary office for the President of the Republic during the construction of the new capital city. This work discusses…[Read more]

This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

A bibliographical listing, including audio, video, etc., from the perspective of critical and cultural studies, on the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scare (Coronavirus, COVID-19). From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’, 2021.

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]

In: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.

La cuenca Atoyac-Zahupan tiene una geografía compleja en el que fluye el agua superficial hacia el valle y a los ríos principales. Las comunidades del Atoyac han convivido con este territorio complejo por miles de años; sin embargo, con la llegada de la industria la cuenca se transformó y los ríos comenzaron a usarse como drenajes de las ciud…[Read more]

Hay en la Unión Europea, según los datos oficiales (nada aireados), muchos miles de muertos y muchos centenares de miles de enfermos por efectos negativos de las vacunas “de nueva tecnología” contra el Covid-19. No esperen oír esto en la tele ni leerlo en el periódico.

Today, Pandora’s Box continues to be opened, not by unsuspecting people, but by people who provide services in the name of science, politics and economics.
Notwithstanding the risks, government sectors, the mass media, even scholars, abdicated from the public debate regarding the threats posed by the “box”.
They include damages to the health of…[Read more]

In this chapter, I am chiefly interested in articulating a theoretical claim that cooperatively run schools can educate the commons causally and reproductively. Cooperatively run schools educate the commons because going to school at a cooperative can cause commons to come about by reproducing the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary to…[Read more]

In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.

Hindu religious continuity among Buddhists: 2056 The Challenges

Mahatma Gandhi-led untouchability movement in Wardha district

An overview and analysis on the Information Literacy activities and programmes organized by the Universidad de Málaga Library is offered, from their beginnings in 1991-92 to the current programmes. The goals, methodology and main outcomes are presented as well as some conclusions.