In contemporary performance, “action” seems to include acts, emergent action and the potential for action—even sometimes non-action. Performers include the human and nonhuman, the living and the nonliving. Through all this runs a complexity of technics—technologies and techniques—and these increasingly involve computational processes. How do we…[Read more]

Exploration, from 20 years ago, of the concept of the virtual in Deleuze, De Landa, Massumi, Grosz, Bergson, Zizek and others. This is the main concern though it is tie into VR and related technologies (as things were around 2004). I wrote this a very long time ago and never quite published it (I don’t think I tried). So it’s very much a draft.…[Read more]

Presented in the spirit of Open Educational Resources. Full Course Outline for The World as Medium and/vs The Third Media Revolution. Level 3 course designed across many programs (Journalism and Comms, BA, Design, PR, Screen and Sound, Law, etc). So it’s a somewhat generalist course. It begins with a summary of standard approaches (from standard…[Read more]

How did so much of contemporary technics become so disappointing, so deadening? How is technics being thought, and worked with, to enliven? What different assemblages and principles are involved? This chapter begins in sympathy with Michel Serres’ “aggrieved shame” and then moves to Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s discussion of an “undeadness” at the heart…[Read more]

Article about the composer Pauline Viardot

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

In dem Seminar wird Sprachwandel aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet.

On the example of “The Walking Dead”, we demonstrate in how far the reception of pop culture narratives can serve not merely trivial entertainment, but epistemological interest as well. For this purpose, we introduce the term pop cultural secondary worlds and formulate the thesis that these can be used analogously to thought experiments. The…[Read more]

This editorial appeared in the last print issue of FORWARD Press, published from New Delhi. The article discusses the need for a democratic form of the newsroom. Along with this, various dimensions of Dalit-Bahujan journalism have come to the fore.

The Forward Press magazine was bilingual (Hindi and English). The article uploaded here is also…[Read more]

This book discusses advances in the dairy industry in various parts of the world. It is divided into four sections on “Dairy Technology”, “Reproductive Biotechnology”, “Entrepreneurship Development”, and “Sustainable Development”. Chapters address such topics as regional dairy breeds, farming innovations, mineral nutrition, folliculogenesi…[Read more]

Four colleagues–a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections–take turns describing their role in creating an undergraduate student project around an eighteenth-century almanac that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. In recounting the steps taken, the collaborative process, the student…[Read more]

प्रमोद रंजन और उनकी टीम द्वारा वर्ष 2009 में किए गए सर्वेक्षण में पाया गया था कि बिहार की पत्रकारिता में फैसला लेने वालों पदों पर एक भी दलित, पिछड़ा, आदिवासी नहीं है। फैसला लेने वाले पदों पर स्त्रियों की भागीदारी भी शून्य है। इस सर्वेक्षण में प्रिंट व इलेक्ट्रॉनिक दोनों माध्यमों को लिया गया था तथा इसमें हिंदी, अंग्रेजी और उर्दू के मीडिया संस…[Read more]

यह लेख अप्रैल, 2011 के अंत में लिखा गया था। उस समय अन्ना हजारे भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी आंदोलन चरम पर था। इस लेख में इस आंदोलन के दलित-बहुजन विरोधी चरित्र को उजागर किया गया है।

लेख में बताया गया है कि किन कारणों से कॉरपोरेट घराने इस आंदोलन के समर्थक थे और किस प्रकार इसके मूल में लोकतंत्र की अवमानना निहित थी।

Research about the influence of the musicological outpput of relevant Researcher Constantin Floros

Introductory overview of musical theory and thought in Spain in the 17th and first half of the 18th century.
Panorama introductorio sobre la teoría y el pensamiento musicales de España en el siglo XVII y primera mitad del XVIII.

Analysis of the participation of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in the commemorative events of the first centenary of Beethoven’s death (1927)

Before arriving in Spain, Francisco Corselli had developed an important career as opera composer and sacred music when he arrived in Spain in 1733 from Parma thanks to his previous relations with Isabella de Farnese, the future queen of Spain, and with the ducal house of Parma. At the Madrid court, he began his career as ‘maestro de música’ for…[Read more]

Discourse called post-humanism believes that humanism is a phony notion and an excuse for ruling over the other animals — and that it would eventually invite the destruction of the human race. They draw attention to the scientific fact that man is also an ordinary animal and just like other animals and birds is a small part of the huge e…[Read more]

Discourse called post-humanism believes that humanism is a phony notion and an excuse for ruling over the other animals — and that it would eventually invite the destruction of the human race. They draw attention to the scientific fact that man is also an ordinary animal and just like other animals and birds is a small part of the huge e…[Read more]

पार्श्व गायिका लता मंगेशकर ने लगभग सात दशकों तक भारतीय संगीत की दुनिया पर राज किया। उनके गाए गीत भारत में ही नहीं, पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश समेत कई देशों में पसंद किए जाते थे। इस लेख में उनके सामाजिक सरोकारों और राजनीतिक रुझानों की चर्चा की गई है। उनका वैचारिक जुड़ाव राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ से था, जो कि अपनी नाजीवादी विचारधारा…[Read more]