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Justin Walsh deposited A method for space archaeology research: the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoSpace archaeology is defined as the study of “the material culture relevant to space exploration that is found on Earth and in outer space (i.e., exoatmospheric material) and that is clearly the result of human behavior” (Gorman & O’Leary 2013: 409). The aim of space archaeology is to understand the interaction of technology and human behav…[Read more]
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Thobias Sarbunan deposited Point 13 of the Fundamentals of Education Course in Indonesian education (Teaching materials) in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis article provides teaching
resources for fundamental education
courses that cover the Indonesian
education system’s legal framework.
Therefore, the most recent national
education system legislation
established in 2021 applied in the
learning process. To allow students
at the tertiary level, particularly
in the first semester of the…[Read more] -
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Víctimas de las vacunas in the group
Anthropology 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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Valeria Graziano deposited On Domestic Fantasies and Anti-work Politics: A Feminist History of Complicating Automation in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIn 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] -
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Net of Words: El autoengendramiento de ‘Beowulf’ in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoComentamos algunos elementos de autoengendramienento en el poema épico anglosajón ´Beowulf´. El motivo del autoengendramiento literario emerge espontáneamente allí a partir de la naturaleza misma de la narración—o quizá más bien vemos la emergencia natural de la narración artística a partir de las prácticas sociales que dieron lugar a ella, práct…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Arqueología del lenguaje y del pensamiento in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoComentamos, con ocasión del libro de Ángel Rivera ‘Arqueología del lenguaje’, los principales conceptos de arqueología cognitiva y sus posibles desarrollos en relación en particular a las aportaciones de la lingüística cognitiva y la narratología.
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Michael Lyons deposited Indiscretions of a Contemporary Artist: Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoReflections on artist Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited 60 millones de muertos el año de la pandemia: Grandes cifras in the group
Anthropology 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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Michael Lyons deposited Indiscretions of a Contemporary Artist: Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoReflections on Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset
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Michael Lyons deposited Indiscretions of a Contemporary Artist: Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe article contains a historical account and commentary on Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford’s unauthorized use of the JAFFE dataset.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Spencer and Dust in the group
Anthropology 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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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 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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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited En tiempos de los cíclopes in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoComentamos en este artículo la figura de los cíclopes en Homero y en Vico, leyéndola como un arquetipo cultural y psicológico de la sociedad protohumana. Los dos aspectos complementarios del mito (como tradición cultural que se remonta a la prehistoria, y como estructura psicológica, referida a la socialización y al desarrollo psicológico individ…[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
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 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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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Never Let Me Go’: El sujeto en la sociedad orgánica in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Artículo sobre algunas implicaciones ideológicas de la película ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Mark Romanek, 2010), basada en la novela de Kazuo Ishiguro. Ofrece un retrato de la sociedad como un sistema educativo manipulador, que mantiene a los niños ignorantes de las cosas más importantes que se pueden saber sobre el poder y la expl…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Meandering in Transition in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe chapter opens the “Meandering in Transition” collection. It presents contributors and outlines reasons why some of the Central and Eastern European states accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La macdonaldización de la sociedad in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el libro de George Ritzer ‘La McDonaldización de la Sociedad’ (1993) desde la perspectiva de la fase avanzada de estandarización de los procesos y del trabajo en el capitalismo mediado por las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y especialmente por la Red. ____…[Read more]
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Michael Lyons deposited “Excavating AI” Re-excavated: Debunking a Fallacious Account of the JAFFE Dataset in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoTwenty-five years ago, my colleagues Miyuki Kamachi and Jiro Gyoba and I designed and photographed JAFFE, a set of facial expression images intended for use in a study of face perception. In 2019, without seeking permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen exhibited JAFFE in two widely publicized art shows. In addition, they…[Read more]
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Darshi Arachige deposited Do the estimated admixture times confirm the proposed Holocene Gene flow from India to Australia? in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis paper argues that the current estimates for the time of influx of Indian genes into
some sections of the Australian Aboriginal population during the Holocene bear large
uncertainties which make elimination of the probability of a more recent gene flow less
likely. It also highlights that indications for the plausibility of a later gene…[Read more] -
Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Challenging Digital Utopianism: Electronic Imaginaries and the Second Century of Radio in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis chapter explores a case of activism to promote FM broadcasting in the USA at the turn of the millennium, using data drawn from a large ethnographic project. These radio activists provide a unique site for analysing new media adoption and resistance; as technologically savvy critics of Internet utopianism, they are not dismissible as mere…[Read more]
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