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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Latent Cosmologies, Latent Media: The Material Temporality of Twelver Shi’i Media Practices in Mumbai in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoIn 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]
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Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWe all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]
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Ana Dumitran deposited Vision de Varnava. Înțăleptului Varnava minunată arătare a vederii lui cu pildă tuturor in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDu sage Varnava la merveilleuse apparition de sa vision avec exemple pour tous, cette traduction-recréation roumaine en vers du Dialogus du poète baroque hongrois Nyéki Vörös Mátyas, effectuée en Transylvanie en 1670, peut être considérée comme la première œuvre du pope Ioan de Vintz. Sur le plan européen, sa Vision de Varnava représente l…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Science Fiction Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoI mean this in the sense of classic science fiction, excluding sword and sorcery fantasies and other well-established generic fantasies…. Eg. I, Robot: ¡Ay, robot! https://www.academia.edu/40832609/
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Building Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in “Blue Collar” (1978) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“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]
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Building Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in “Blue Collar” (1978) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“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]
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Methodological Imperialism in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoByzantinists have a tendency, implicitly or explicitly, to adopt the analytical perspective of the central state and its imperial class. We ask what helped the empire survive and/or expand, and we judge the success of a given ruler, official, or policy according to this criterion. I term this tendency methodological imperialism.
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Collin Cornell deposited Review essay of Philip G. Ziegler, Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology in Theology Corner (now-defunct blog) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis 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.
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Participación comunitaria en los medios de comunicación. Perspectivas para el desarrollo local in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa producción de los medios de comunicación constituye una expresión de la sociedad que los gesta. Los grupos sociales que intervienen en la producción televisiva actualmente son herederos de la práctica funcionalista y trasmisiva de los medios tradicionales de comunicación (prensa plana, radio y televisión). En esa lógica los temas que se represe…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Fernández de Heredia: renombrado poeta, popular deportista… ¿y criminal encubierto? in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPese a su prestigio académico y a la importancia de su producción poética, el valenciano Juan Fernández de Heredia es un poeta cancioneril de cuya vida y obra todavía albergamos bastantes lagunas. Un factor que podría explicar esta situación es que sus poesías completas, editadas por Rafael Ferreres a mediados del siglo pasado, (Fernández de Hered…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited De la ‘fermosa judía’ a la bella conversa: la erótica de lo prohibido en las literaturas hispánicas del medievo y del temprano renacimiento in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa hipersexualización de personajes femeninos en la literatura de todos los tiempos responde a varios patrones culturales bastante determinados y convenientemente analizados por la teoría literaria, tanto la de rango más generalista (Dworkin 13-47) como la dedicada de forma específica a las literaturas hispánicas (García Velasco 292-307). En el…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Escitia y Escancia (o Escandia), el fabuloso pasado nórdico del neogoticismo cuatrocentista hispánico in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEl artículo analiza el neogoticismo y su incidencia en la propaganda ideológica dispersa en la Edad Media hispánica desde los siglos IX al XV. Se estudia su apogeo en las crónicas medievales y su posterior desaparición, así como su recuperación entre los siglos XV y XVI de la mano de obras genealógicas y de cancioneros poéticos. Específi…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La controversia judía y judeoconversa en los debates del Cancionero de Baena in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLos debates literarios son prácticamente consustanciales e intrínsecos a la existencia de la literatura en cualquier lengua y en cualquier cultura, en tanto que «en último término, remiten a condicionamientos pragmáticos humanos» (Chas Aguión 2002 : 59). Por lo que respecta a su inserción en la cultura de la Edad Media hispánica, hay un aspecto i…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Enfoque participativo en la producción y consumo de televisión: modelo para las comunidades de práctica in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoLos textosaudiovisualesdemandan una combinación de actividades entorno a larepresentación ydecodificación. El proceso se encuentra condicionado pordiferentesrolesen los procesos de producción y consumo televisivo. Se plantea como objetivo de la investigación: diseñarun modelo de producción para las comunidades de práctica televis…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green deposited Shifting Paradigms in Black Death Chronologies in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis blogpost summarizes findings presented at a talk at Erfurt University on 16 May 2023, in the series KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formation,” Global Exchange: Trade, Knowledge, and Religion. In this blogpost we present our key argument that rigorous correlation between archaeological, genomic, and documentary evidence dem…[Read more]
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Albert R Haig deposited Dialectic as ostension towards the transcendent: Language and mystical intersubjectivity in Plotinus’ Enneads in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe theory of language that underlies Plotinus’ Enneads is considered in relation to his broader metaphysical vision. For Plotinus, language is neither univocal nor equivocal, but is something in-between, incapable of precisely describing reality, but nonetheless not completely useless. Propositional knowledge expressed discursively represents a…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Characters in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoJ. Edgar: Megalomanía y Metaficción https://www.academia.edu/12077193/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Philosophy and Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoLet’s begin with this rambling musings by Zizek on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and a host of related issues…. Retropost, 2013: Slavoj Zizek, On Melancholy https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/05/slavoj-zizek-on-melancholy-2012.html
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Stephen Hewer deposited Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBy applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Not a riot, Repression in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAnalysis of the communal violence that took place on September 14, 2011 in Gopalgarh town of Rajasthan
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