Tucker 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)

A 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.

The 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]

In: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.

La 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]

Hay 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.

Today, 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”.
They include damages to the health of…[Read more]

Are you tripping over your own feet, incapable of advancing even a single metre, when it comes to understanding the technicalities of the feet and metres of pre-modern Islamicate poetry? Then you should probably not consult Nevāʾī’s Meter of Meters, since you are better off with the works of a Wheeler Thackston or a Finn Thiesen… If, howe…[Read more]

Henrietta Liston, wife of a British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, recorded her travels in a private journal, now held in the National Library of Scotland. Together with academics from Bilkent University in Ankara, the Library is currently working to publish the journal for the first time. Dora Petherbridge,…[Read more]

Presentación 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

This article examines the unpublished memoirs of Sevim Sertel O’Brien, a journalist and daughter of prominent journalists and intellectuals Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel. The memoirs, written in English and told as bedtime stories to O’Brien’s Turkish-American children in the 1950s and 1960s, provide a unique lens on the early history of the Turkish…[Read more]

With the introduction of the horse-drawn tramway in 1871, the citizens of Istanbul were forced to reckon with a new type of public space—the crowded confines of the tramcar. This article focuses on the removal of a curtain that separated men and women on public transit in 1923, analyzing the discourses that shaped the decision and the way in w…[Read more]

With the introduction of the horse-drawn tramway in 1871, the citizens of Istanbul were forced to reckon with a new type of public space—the crowded confines of the tramcar. This article focuses on the removal of a curtain that separated men and women on public transit in 1923, analyzing the discourses that shaped the decision and the way in w…[Read more]

El 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.

English 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]

Building 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).

Es 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]

Academics 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]

Purportedly in response to a request by his unnamed beloved one, the late 18th-century Ottoman poet Ḥasan-i Yāver wrote Poetry’s Artistry, a 441-verse mathnawī that offers some hands-on advice for trying one’s hand at poetry. As tashbīh, jinās, kināya, taḍādd, taḍmīn, ilmām, iltifāt, tardīd, ishtibāh, tawriya, īhām, takhmīs, tarkīb-band,…[Read more]

Part of the literature about politics is dedicated to questions of authoritarianism, which, in the vision of the authors, would be a crescent menace to democratic regimes throughout the world. This is the point: democracy, in the paper, is different from what actually happens in the practice and can be even be the opposite. In the so called…[Read more]