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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
Digital Art History 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
Digital Art History 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
Digital Art History 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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Anna-Marie Kroupova started the topic CFP: Conference The Art Museum in the Digital Age (online, 17–21 Jan, 2022) in the discussion
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoLocation: Belvedere, Vienna (Online)
Dates: 17–21 January 2022
Submission: 17 October 2021
Website: https://www.belvedere.at/en/digitalmuseum2022
The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2022
The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fourth event on the topic. The COV…[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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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
Digital Art History 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
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Encerrados en Shutter Island: Un delirio coherente in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSpanish abstract: Análisis de la estructura narrativa de ´Shutter Island´ (Martin Scorsese, 2010), una película en la que el espectador se introduce en el mundo ficticio de una isla prisión / institución total, sólo para descubrir más adelante que no se trata del mundo social efectivo del protagonista, sino del mundo de su visión alucinat…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Riofrío’: Quién juzgará al juzgador in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSpanish Abstract: ‘Riofrío’ es una novela de no ficción de Santiago Muñoz Machado, eminente abogado y profesor de derecho, sobre un importante caso judicial del famoso juez Baltasar Garzón—un largo proceso de instrucción en el que Garzón intentó empapelar a una serie de inversores que iban desde Berlusconi hasta Miguel Durán. Fue un macroproc…[Read more]
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Jasmine Burns deposited A Critical Response to “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts” by Melissa Terras, et al, Published in “Big Data and Society” in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis is a gut-reaction response to the recent article “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts” by Melissa Terras, et al, published in Big Data and Society on April 6, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165. My main argument is that exploiting labor and appropriating cultural heritage are int…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Marca de Sumisión: La nocente Mascarilla in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSpanish abstract: Argumentamos contra la normativa española sobre el uso obligatorio y ubicuo de mascarillas en todos los espacios públicos, incluyendo el aire libre. Denunciamos estas normas y leyes como despóticas, arbitrarias y carentes de base científica, y mostramos cómo su razón de ser se halla tanto en la agenda globalista de los princ…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited Remembering Kingship: Samuel’s Contributions to Postmonarchic Culture in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoKingship has been a political mainstay in human history, even when peoples have lacked monarchic rulers. This essay examines the book of Samuel as a source for the cultural history of ancient Judah, focusing on the question of how Samuel’s representations of monarchy would function for its readers in the early Second Temple era. In this era, w…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited Ezekiel as a Written Text: Archiving Visions, Remembering Futures in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis chapter focuses on Ezekiel as a text, i.e., a collection of writings meant to be read again and again. As a text, it presents a range of ideas in dialogue with one another—and sometimes in tension—thus providing ample space for continual discussion and reinterpretation of its ideas among its original communities of readers in antiquity. Eze…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Nonvolitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoContribution to a volume reflecting on Tim Ingold’s recent interventions on the relationship between anthropology and ethnography “Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future”, edited by Irfan Ahmad.
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