Noel Blanco Mourelle
@mourelle.bsky.social
I admire its purity
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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
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Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Margit Frenk (1925-2025). La riada del canto popular
A lo largo de los años, la mexicana desplegó toda la potencia de la buena filología para recuperar lo que cantaba el pueblo entre los siglos XV y XVII, desde rondas de amor a cantares de faena
ctxt.es
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
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muy feliz por haber recuperado dos textos de un autor imprescindible @bne.es @elpais elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Descubiertas dos novelas inéditas de Ignacio Aldecoa en el centenario del escritor
El investigador Álex Alonso Nogueira localiza las obras del escritor, y una de ellas se mostrará próximamente en la Biblioteca Nacional
elpais.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
muy feliz por haber recuperado dos textos de un autor imprescindible @bne.es @elpais elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Demà a Chicago!
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Demà a Chicago!
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Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!
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El descubridor del texto original de 'La colmena': "Hubiera pasado la censura, pero cayó en manos de católicos reaccionarios" www.eldiario.es/1_c1fac2?utm...
El descubridor del texto original de 'La colmena': "Hubiera pasado la censura, pero cayó en manos de católicos reaccionarios"
El investigador que halló el mecanoscrito inédito que Camilo José Cela remitió a la censura en 1946 explica que el lápiz rojo no actuó de una manera homogénea durante la dictadura y da por hecho que e...
www.eldiario.es
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
El descubridor del texto original de 'La colmena': "Hubiera pasado la censura, pero cayó en manos de católicos reaccionarios" www.eldiario.es/1_c1fac2?utm...
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
Excelente texto de Aristondo, poniendo el dedo en la llaga
October 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Excelente texto de Aristondo, poniendo el dedo en la llaga
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Please stop what you are doing and go listen to Melinda Cooper on @thedigradio.bsky.social you will thank me later open.spotify.com/episode/3gAL...
Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
open.spotify.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Please stop what you are doing and go listen to Melinda Cooper on @thedigradio.bsky.social you will thank me later open.spotify.com/episode/3gAL...
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#WalterBenjamin flüchtete vor Krieg und Diktatur, besaß ein Visum für die USA und hatte sich bis zum spanischen Grenzort Portbou durchgeschlagen. Doch dort verweigerte man ihm die Einreise.
#AnDiesemTag 🧵
#AnDiesemTag 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
#WalterBenjamin flüchtete vor Krieg und Diktatur, besaß ein Visum für die USA und hatte sich bis zum spanischen Grenzort Portbou durchgeschlagen. Doch dort verweigerte man ihm die Einreise.
#AnDiesemTag 🧵
#AnDiesemTag 🧵
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Argumentos como panes en este artículo de Mario Aguiriano contra la columna de Reyes Mate en El País, que enfurece y entristece a partes iguales. Excelente artículo también para ayudarnos a pensar (mejor) históricamente
🇵🇸Opinión | Manipulaciones sionistas y responsabilidad histórica.
"El historiador Reyes Mate, con su último artículo publicado en ‘El País’, ha querido jugar, en su versión intelectual, el mismo papel que los antidisturbios en La Vuelta."
✍️Mario Aguiriano.
📷David F. Sabadell.
https://elsal.to/44081
"El historiador Reyes Mate, con su último artículo publicado en ‘El País’, ha querido jugar, en su versión intelectual, el mismo papel que los antidisturbios en La Vuelta."
✍️Mario Aguiriano.
📷David F. Sabadell.
https://elsal.to/44081
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Argumentos como panes en este artículo de Mario Aguiriano contra la columna de Reyes Mate en El País, que enfurece y entristece a partes iguales. Excelente artículo también para ayudarnos a pensar (mejor) históricamente
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Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
Preparing for a therapeutic rewatch of The Shining: Jameson, Fisher, and Crary
September 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Preparing for a therapeutic rewatch of The Shining: Jameson, Fisher, and Crary
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This is a nice podcast if you're interested in questions of internationalism, anti-imperialism, and decolonization, the Bandung spirit revisited and put into practice.
www.returntobandung.com
www.returntobandung.com
Return to Bandung
www.returntobandung.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is a nice podcast if you're interested in questions of internationalism, anti-imperialism, and decolonization, the Bandung spirit revisited and put into practice.
www.returntobandung.com
www.returntobandung.com
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Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, killing at least 20 people including five Palestinian journalists. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_journalists
Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC
Israeli airstrikes on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza killed at least 20 people Monday, including five Palestinian journalists. Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the hospit...
www.democracynow.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, killing at least 20 people including five Palestinian journalists. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_journalists
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The University of Oregon is threatening to lay off many faculty and close entire departments and programs in the humanities. Visit strengthenUO.org for more information, including how you can take action.
August 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The University of Oregon is threatening to lay off many faculty and close entire departments and programs in the humanities. Visit strengthenUO.org for more information, including how you can take action.
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Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean.
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer
Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear...
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean.
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
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Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay!
Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
August 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay!
Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
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Penn Libraries is hiring a Director of Academic Engagement wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
Director, Academic Engagement
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
wd1.myworkdaysite.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Penn Libraries is hiring a Director of Academic Engagement wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
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NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.
www.aaup.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
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Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
July 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
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A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
n.pr
July 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
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It’s July 2, 2025 (11:10 P.M.):
ISRAEL MURDERED TODAY 111 PEOPLE IN GAZA.
ISRAEL MURDERED TODAY 111 PEOPLE IN GAZA.
July 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s July 2, 2025 (11:10 P.M.):
ISRAEL MURDERED TODAY 111 PEOPLE IN GAZA.
ISRAEL MURDERED TODAY 111 PEOPLE IN GAZA.
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So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...