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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Contagio (De virus y rumores) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish 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]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Somos hijos de la guerra: La cooperación para la violencia como clave para la evolución humana in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish 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]
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André Francisco Pilon deposited Science, Freedom, Public Spaces and Specialized Bureaucracies: Where is the Truth? in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years agoScience 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]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Viendo el mundo con la mente in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish 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]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Covid Worldwide Conspiracy: Tucker Carlson Interviews Dr. Peter McCullough in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years agoTucker 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)
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Roopika Risam started the topic DEFCon 2022 Regrant Webinar Recording Available! in the discussion
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHosted by Roopika Risam and Keja Valens (Salem State University) and featuring DEFCon Steering Committee members Sonya Donaldson, Jamila Moore Pewu, and Toniesha Taylor, this webinar on December 13, 2021 offered an overview of the funding opportunities from DEFCon for 2022: Teaching Fellowships, Capacity Building Fellowships, and…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Coronavirus/Covid-19 Pandemic Scare: A Bibliography in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoA 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.
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James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe 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]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited (Re)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.
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Roopika Risam started the topic DEFCon Funding Opportunities in 2022 in the discussion
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWith the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, DEFCon will be offering $100,000 in grants to support course and curriculum development in digital ethnic studies. An additional $75,000 will be offered to hire mentors to support grant recipients.
On December 13, 2021 at 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific, Roopika Risam (Consortium Director) and…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Presentación: Situación ambiental y epidemiológica de la cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoLa 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]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Víctimas de las vacunas in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHay 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.
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André Francisco Pilon deposited The Pandora’s Box A Metaphor for today’s World? in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoToday, 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”.
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Presentación “Garantía de recursos financieros para la ejecución efectiva del Plan” – Foro de consulta ciudadana SEMARNAT – 11-oct-2021 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoPresentación respecto a la garantía de los recursos financieros para la ejecución del Plan de Saneamiento de la Cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan en el marco del foro de consulta ciduadana celebrado el 11 de octubre de 2021
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited 60 millones de muertos el año de la pandemia: Grandes cifras in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEl año de la pandemia no murieron cuatro millones de personas. Murieron casi 60 millones, de diversas causas, entre ellas un número indeterminado por Covid-19. Las grandes cifras engañan mucho, y más si están intervenidas y subvencionadas.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Spencer and Dust in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEnglish abstract: A vindication of the wide-ranging perspective of Herbert Spencer’s theories of cosmic evolutionism, as an intellectual enterprise far more ambitious and comprehensive than that of his contemporary Charles Darwin. (A retropost from 2011). _________________________________________________________________________________ Spanish…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEs una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited Making and Meeting Online: A White Paper on E-Conferences, Workshops, and Other Experiments in Low-Carbon Research Exchange in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoAcademics fly a lot: to research sites and archives, to conferences and workshops. Yet flying has many negative repercussions. Air travel has disproportionate climate impacts, and for reasons of time, money, and border security, produces many barriers for marginalized scholars, shaping who is able shows up at conferences and thus, who participates…[Read more]
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