In 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]

As neural language models begin to change aspects of everyday life, they understandably attract criticism. This position paper was commissioned for a roundtable at Princeton University, dedicated to one of the most influential critiques: “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru,…[Read more]

“Thinking Fast and Slow” by Prof. Daniel Kahneman is an excellent book on behavioural economics that also makes a reader wonder about other ideas such as free will, priming and the role of language in his or her daily existence. This review is not meant as an easy read. It switches topics often to convey several ideas within a short essay.

English Abstract: In the context of the Spanish reform of the university degree system begun in 2005 under the PSOE Ministry of Education, this paper denounces the manipulation of representative mechanisms on the part of the CCU (Council of University Coordination), impeding a consultation with the Universities by way of transforming the Rectors…[Read more]

A comment on the division of work in the Third Cycle of higher education in the Spanish university. The Catedrático gets all the PhD candidates who are able to really write a dissertation on their own, that´s why they “work” more and their job is easier. (Paper written 2011)

My notes (taken c. 1990) on Geoffrey Leech’s ‘Principles of Pragmatics’ (London: Longman, 1983). Pagination on the left; my parenthetical comments in italics.

My notes (taken c. 1990) on Geoffrey Leech’s ‘Principles of Pragmatics’ (London: Longman, 1983). Pagination on the left; my parenthetical comments in italics.

The third volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes six full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2020 virtual DH Benelux conference. Contents: 1. Editor’s Preface (Wout Dillen, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp); 2. Introduction: Digital Humanities Online (Antske Fokkens, Christian Gosvig…[Read more]

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) wrote and published in an era in which a highly developed erotic code was adopted by dozens and dozens of writers in Italy, and presumably understood by tens of thousands of readers in Europe. A most helpful text for decoding the erotic lexicon was written by Jean Toscan: Le carnaval du langage: le lexique érotique des…[Read more]

In 1525, Pietro Bembo in his Prose della volgar lingua published a condemnation of Dante’s Comedy that has often passed for linguistic and cultural criticism, yet might be better understood as satire.

This paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.

This book is a compendium of book reviews reflecting my “Creed of Life.” The fact is that my Creed of Life has been fashioned through these authors, as well as others not mentioned here, whose works were personally important to me and significant to my intellectual development. This list is continually being lengthened as authors, living or dea…[Read more]

In this book I contemplate the possibility of posthuman philosophy within the religious and theological schools of thought. In doing this, I do not focus on the traditional philosophical humanism which characterizes the scholastic and neo-scholastic approach within Western philosophy. Rather, I focus on a dehellenized philosophical way of thinking…[Read more]

A down-to-earth exposition of the work by Martin Janello on the Philosophy of Happiness. It introduces the fundamental notions that happiness is of existential importance for individuals and humanity – and that we each have it within our power to improve our lives and make this a better world in the process. It also spells out that our success in…[Read more]

Reflections on artist Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset

Reflections on artist Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset

https://www.euronewsproject.org/2021/04/28/irish-beef/

The Irish were making trouble again, or so it seemed. The year was 1666, and relations between the Irish and the English, only recently becalmed following the close of the tumultuous Cromwellian period, were being roiled by a new crisis, this one having to do with large landowners and…[Read more]

Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset