Digital visual culture in cyberspace creates new methods for Black queer women to resist the oppression of controlling images. As cyborg beings, Black queer women perform their identities in creative and boundary-breaking ways, often using sexually explicit lyrics and dance to resist white normativity and heteronormativity. Multinational social…[Read more]

This essay endeavors to explain the really important powers, ways of knowing, and characteristics of life that AI can never have. The author takes off his academic hat here and speaks from direct experience.

Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

Introduction to the poetry of Mohammad Zaman.

Before coffee * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Save a chicken! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]

MAD HARRY! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND

Series of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at “the 99%” of institutions (Francisco and O’Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]

यह पुस्तक मूल रूप से हिंदी में वर्ष 2016 में ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावना’ शीर्षक से प्रकाशित हुई थी। उसका यह अंग्रेजी अनुवाद भी उसी वर्ष प्रकाशित हुआ था। यह किताब हिन्दी और भारतीय भाषाओं में बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा पर विमर्श प्रस्तुत करती है। एक ओर यह किताब हिंदी साहित्य में हो रहे बदलावों पर नजर रखती है दूसरी ओर मंडल कमीशन के लागू होने के बाद ब…[Read more]

इस पुस्तक में बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा की आवश्यकता को रेखांकित किया गया है। बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा का पैमाना लेखक का कुल लेखकीय-वैचारिक अवदान है। इसलिए द्विज समुदाय से आने वाले ऐसे लेखकों के लिए भी इसमें स्थान है, जिनकी दृढ पक्षधरता इन वंचित तबकों के प्रति हो। जैसा कि हम फारवर्ड प्रेस में कहते आए हैं कि यह अवधारणा उस व…[Read more]