Einstein observed, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” As the p…[Read more]

This is pre-publication preview introduces the major questions, methods, and insights of my book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023).

In this essay, I argue that the temporal figure of latency is central for an understanding of the material temporalities of media. Latency as a tempo- ral figure is built into the material functioning of sound reproduction and audiovisual media. The discussion shows how latency underpins techni- cal processes of storing and reproducing sounds and…[Read more]

El profesional de la información actualmente ha sido ampliamente demandado para la gestión de revistas, la evaluación de la ciencia y la actividad científica. En Cuba la formación del profesional de la información se realiza en cuatro centros de educación superior dentro de los que se encuentra la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas…[Read more]

Los argumentos de autoridad se basan en la idea de que una fuente de autoridad tiene un conocimiento especializado y confiable sobre un tema en particular. Este tipo de argumento busca establecer la validez de una afirmación o conclusión a través de la citación de una fuente de autoridad reconocida. Por ejemplo, en la ciencia, se utilizan arg…[Read more]

“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]

This white paper was used in part for a successful course development grant proposal from the Music Library Association. The resulting deliverable from the grant work was a 15-week syllabus and accompanying course materials, published as an open education resource on OER Commons (access at https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/104427). The…[Read more]

The NEMLA Music Librarianship Course working group developed a syllabus for a course that is centered around the principles of critical music librarianship with a particular focus on social justice and antiracist practices. This initiative is unique from general music librarianship courses offered in LIS programs currently, because we specifically…[Read more]

This is a review essay, originally contributed to a blog symposium, responding to the publication of Philip G. Ziegler’s book entitled Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology.

Los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe constituyen un campo científico que ha sido poco estudiado y delimitado. Los paradigmas euro centristas y de la colonialidad del saber han influido en la comu-nicación científica. La investigación tuvo como propósito delimitar la estructura del campo…[Read more]

La formación de valores humanos ha sido uno de los aspectos priorizados por el sistema de educación superior en Cuba. La carrera de Ingeniería Automática de la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Cuba, ha desarrollado una concepción sistémica de la educación sustentada en valores, sin embargo, no existen estudios que analicen s…[Read more]

Audiovisual archives in local television stations favor the processing and preservation of audio-visual information for his retrival. The peculiarities of the processing of audiovisual information on local television stations archives have been little addressed from the scientific production. In the methodological order, there is a…[Read more]