Wang, Lawrence K. and Wang, Mu-Hao Sung (2022). Closed water systems for recycling water and fibers in forest and paper industry with flotation and spray filtration. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 4, Number 7B, July 2022;…[Read more]

The essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]

I discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]

Wang, Lawrence K. and Wang, Mu-Hao Sung (2022). Titanium dioxide recovery, filler retention and white water treatment using flotation and membrane filtration.. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 4, Number 7, July 2022; pp.72.…[Read more]

Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials,…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: La población del planeta Tierra ha sobrepasado la cifra de siete mil millones de habitantes. Comentamos las reflexiones de Fred Spier sobre el crecimiento y el desarrollo sostenible, desde la perspectiva desilusionante que ofrece la crítica de Alfred Bartlett a los modelos de crecimiento, y en relación a la noción de equ…[Read more]

This publication introduces (a) natural evaporation from water and land surfaces and the evaporation equations using either metric units or the US customary units; (b) natural transpiration and evapotranspiration phenomenon ; (c) the description, applications, limitations, design criteria and performance of evapotranspiration wastewater treatment…[Read more]

Comprendo que están Vds. hartos del Covid-19 y de Mascarillas, Vacunas, Pautas, Cierres Primetrales e Incidencias Acumuladas. Más que yo, no. Y sin embargo les ofrezco más información al respecto, en tres fases para no agobiarles. Primero: tres recomendaciones nada más—una conferencia, un artículo y un vídeo. Es información esencial—…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: ‘Modernidad Líquida’ de Zygmunt Bauman ofrece perspectivas iluminadoras para la interpretación de muchos fenómenos característicos de cultura y la economía del siglo XXI. Leemos a su luz la política de endeudamiento y déficit sistemático de los estados nacionales, y en concreto de España, promovida en años recientes por el establ…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: La película ‘Contagio’ (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011) pertenece al género ‘catástrofe – multiprotagonista’, aquí potenciado por varias circunstancias. La catástrofe es mundial y creíble, una epidemia de una gripe mortífera, como la Peste Negra, o como la Peste Escarlata de Jack London. Y la catástrofe se difunde por las relacione…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Comentarios sobre la guerra desde un punto de vista etológico y evolucionista, sugeridos por el libro de Javier Falgueras ‘Somos Hijos de la Guerra’. _________________________________________________________________________________ English abstract: Disquisitions on war from an ethological and evolutionary perspective, suggested…[Read more]

Science presupposes the acceptance of discussion and controversy. There is no official truth in science; The search for any conceivable truth is only possible in a context of freedom. Official truths led Giordano Bruno to the stake and Galileo to a false retraction (“eppur si muove’); nevertheless official truths continue to thrive, like und…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: El inmaterialismo del siglo XVIII nos enseñó que el mundo que habitamos no es de naturaleza física sino básicamente informacional o semiótica. Yendo más allá del constructivismo psicológico y de la fenomenología, nos sugieren Berkeley y otros que el mundo es una construcción mental—que habitamos, sin sospecharlo, en una realida…[Read more]

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)

Among the monuments of Brazilian modernist architecture, the Catetinho, built in 1956 near the construction site of Brasília, is one of a kind. The only surviving work by Oscar Niemeyer built out of wood, it was intended to be a temporary office for the President of the Republic during the construction of the new capital city. This work discusses…[Read more]

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]