This is an edited volume of essays on philosophy as university work and as a ‘pirate condition’. Taking inspiration from Gary Hall’s pirate philosophy, and from raúl rodríguez freire’s critique of the contemporary condition of the intellectual, three Mexican authors reflect on what it means to do philosophy today from the perspective of the m…[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]

Spanish 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]

‘A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?’ This invitation — sent by one of the authors to the others — led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practic…[Read more]

Climate change is an urgent and unprecedented problem; effectively addressing its challenges requires an ambitious reconfiguration of almost every aspect of contemporary life. Yet, as the past decades of climate advocacy attest, these changes will not be achieved unopposed, nor without significant disruptions to current social relations and…[Read more]

Wang, Lawrence K. and Wang, Mu-Hao Sung (2021). Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development, Better Solid and Hazardous Wastes Management, and Sustainable DAF Landfill Leachate Pretreatment: UNIDO Efforts. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping…[Read more]

The Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]

The environment is suffering so much, and yet humanity is still adamant about saving it. This study determines the awareness of environmental consumption, waste recycling, and its relationship to the academic performance of selected college students during the pandemic period of COVID-19. Using a descriptive research design, the researcher used an…[Read more]

Nature has its due course and disaster is always an aftermath of a catastrophic event. The purpose of this study is to assess the sources of information, training needs, preparation, and response of the community to disaster. To achieve this purpose, the study used a descriptive design with the survey as the instrument for data gathering. For the…[Read more]

Dance music is a medium and social practice that has in some cases functioned as a site of refuge for people and communities whom mainstream society marks “deviant” or “uncivilized. Foundational movements in dance music emerge from particular spaces and times where communities are able to center bodies and practices that subvert or contradict…[Read more]

(First paragraph): “Any DJ could tell you that you don’t know what music really means until you see it in people’s bodies. A DJ establishes a relationship between audio recordings and the crowd, responding to the speed and intensity of their movements, the symbolism of physical attitudes and gestures, their vocalizations, and the simple pre…[Read more]

Spanish Abstract: De la conjunción de ‘Neuromante’ y de ‘Blade Runner’, con un toque de ́Matrix ́, surgen el manga y serie de películas de animación ‘Ghost in the Shell’. El dilema de ‘Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence’ versa sobre la identidad personal: si es replicable, si es imitable, si consiste en signos, ¿dónde está la esencia de la humanid…[Read more]

Short description (video lecture) of what you can do, when you “do chresiology”, part 2 (slides).

Political, economic, social and cultural regeneration is an essential condition for the regeneration of natural and built environments. Earth recovery and mankind recovery are complementary aspects and should be dealt with simultaneously, in space and time, for their mutual support. Environmental problems should be defined through an integrated,…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (2021). Evolutionary mathematics and science for Ultimate Generalization of Lah Numbers/(Binomial Coefficients): Sums/(Alternate Sums) of Orthogonal Products of Stirling Numbers. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王抗曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (edito…[Read more]

This article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels. Drawing on interconnections between CO2, plant life, and human breath, carbon vitalists argue that carbon dioxide is not pollution but the stuff of life itself and thus possesses ethical and e…[Read more]

Las herramientas de publicación como Edition Visualization Technology (EVT) tienen la ventaja principal de facilitar y agilizar el proceso de publicación web de ediciones codificadas en XML/TEI. El editor puede actuar de manera autónoma y no precisa ser experto en desarrollo web, pues es suficiente descargar la herramienta, cambiar algunos pa…[Read more]

Russian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются авторские отступления на тему гидрографии Черного моря (Понт Эвксинский) в четвертой книге Всеобщей истории Полибия. Наблюдения греческого историка за влиянием длительного воздействия рек и морских течений на геологические трансформации рельефа сделали его предвестником геологической теории униформиз…[Read more]

Disaster is an event that shapes our future. During a disaster, it affects lives, infrastructures, livestock and produce, and we can only adapt to it. The aim of this study is to analyze disaster awareness and level of compliance to disaster programs of selected individuals in a highly urbanized city in Central Luzon, Philippines. The study made…[Read more]