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Empire and Literary Autonomy in Antonio Luna's Impresiones
Get PDFThis paper examines the sketches of imperial Spanish life written by Antonio Luna, a Filipino chemist-turned-writer-turned-general. Collected in his 1891 book Impresiones, these sketches demonstrate Luna's attempts to claim autonomy through the written word. At the same time, they reveal the limits of literature's power in modernity for subjects of colonial power, as the same scenes that provide other writers with their greatest triumphs offer frustration to Luna. As Luna's characters traverse the cityscapes of the metropolis, they find themselves caught in the same flows of commodities and consumption as the coffee, sugar, and tobacco that traversed the globe, from the colonies to Europe, and offer hints of how patterns of consumption helped produce literary value in modernity
La pluma y la bolsa: El rol de la prensa reformista en la liberación del poeta esclavizado Ambrosio Echemendía.
Get PDFAmbrosio Echemendía was an enslaved poet born in Cuba in 1843 and freed in 1865 thanks to a collection organized by white intellectuals. This article analyzes the importance of the press in this process. It focuses on the newspaper El Siglo, published in Havana, which reproduced articles from other newspapers such as El Fomento and El Telégrafo de Cienfuegos to call on subscribers to free the poet. The article highlights that this liberation process was made possible by the development of communications in Cuba, which from the 1830s had began to expand and create what Benedict Anderson called an “imagined community” of intellectuals who read the same news and act as a united group to promote a cause of social improvement.Ambrosio Echemendía fue un poeta esclavizado que nació en Cuba en 1843 y fue liberado en 1865 gracias a una colecta que organizaron los intelectuales blancos. Este artículo analiza la importancia de la prensa en dicho proceso. Se enfoca en el periódico El Siglo, publicado en la Habana, que reprodujo sueltos de otros diarios como El Fomento y El Telégrafo de Cienfuegos con el objetivo de llamar a los subscritores a manumitir al poeta. El artículo destaca que dicho proceso de liberación se hizo posible por el desarrollo de las comunicaciones en Cuba, que a partir de la década de 1830 comienzan a expandirse y crean lo que Benedict Anderson llamó una “comunidad imaginada” de intelectuales y sujetos coloniales que leen una misma noticia y actúan como un grupo unido con el objetivo de promover una causa de mejora social
Licensing Online Content to Ensure Patron Privacy: An Informal Survey of Oregon Librarians
Get PDFLibrarians throughout Oregon are committed to securing the rights for patrons utilizing resources within their libraries with the greatest level of protection regarding their online identities as possible. At the same time, Oregon librarians are committed to providing their patrons with the online resources they want to access whether it is a public library, an academic library, a community college library, or a health services library. Finding the balance between providing the desired online content with the safeguards that protect their patrons can be difficult. Oregon librarians recognize the need to secure patrons' online privacy but also want to meet patron demands for resources. Patrons tend to prioritize their quest for content over their personal privacy concerns. By contrast, librarians evaluate the privacy needs of their community as a whole as opposed to on an individual level. They are committed to the third principle of the American Library Association's Code of Ethics: "We protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted" (ALA, 2021).
As with many issues in the 21st century, a tension exists between the individual's wants and the best practices for community well-being. To better understand this inherent conflict between access and security, I asked several Oregon librarians to answer a series of questions about their electronic resource licensing practices. This article outlines the current practices these colleagues employ to reconcile this tension between patron demand and patron safety and to identify ways for improving the situation regarding online resource usage
The Blind Spot of the Future
Get PDFWhen I proposed having the future at the center of this issue, which marks the 10th anniversary of Humanist Studies & The Digital Age, I was aware of the complexity of this controversial topic. The possibility of magnifiche sorti e progressive — a “splendid and progressive destiny” — made possible by human technology inspires hope in some and critique in others. The expression comes from one of Leopardi’s last poems, Ginestra o il fiore del deserto (Broom, or the flower of the desert), where he uses it ironically to suggest the powerlessnesss of humanity in the face of natural disasters. The poet argues with all those who praise the human condition and progress acritically. He condemns their hubris and bitterly invites them to visit the arid slopes of Vesuvius, reduced to a desert by the volcano’s eruption
Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should: On Knowing and Protecting Data Produced by the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society
Get PDFA recent project at the University of Denver Libraries used handwritten text recognition (HTR) software to create transcriptions of records from the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society (JCRS), a tuberculosis sanatorium located in Denver, Colorado from 1904 to 1954. Among a great many other potential uses, these type- and hand-written records give insight into the human experience of disease and epidemic, its treatment, its effect on cultures, and of Jewish immigration to and early life in the American West. Our intent is to provide these transcripts as data so the text may be computationally analyzed, pursuant to a larger effort in developing capacity in services and infrastructure to support digital humanities as a library, and to contribute to the emerging HTR ecosystem in archival work.
Just because we can, however, doesn’t always mean we should: the realities of publishing large datasets online that contain medical and personal histories of potentially vulnerable people and communities introduce serious ethical considerations. This paper both underscores the value of HTR and frames ethical considerations related to protecting data derived from it. It suggests a terms-of-use intervention perhaps valuable to similar projects, one that balances meeting the research needs of digital scholars with the care and respect of persons, their communities and inheritors, who lives produced the very data now valuable to those researchers
Biutiful: En los márgenes de la la cosmópolis neoliberal
Get PDFIn Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, the city operates as a sort of anti-model exposing the dark side of neoliberal economies in larger fashionable cities, with an emphasis in precarization and exclusion and dynamics of violence against migrant populations. To this end, he uses an aesthetics of incongruence and a focus over a motley society, in permanent tension and negotiation between variegated groups. These strategies coexist with two other themes: exclusion represented as a form of expulsion or excrecence, and the appeal to memory as an ethical imperative that disrupts the logic of monetary calculus in which the main characters live immersed.In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, the city operates as a sort of anti-model exposing the dark side of neoliberal economies in larger fashionable cities, with an emphasis in precarization and exclusion and dynamics of violence against migrant populations. To this end, he uses an aesthetics of incongruence and a focus over a motley society, in permanent tension and negotiation between variegated groups. These strategies coexist with two other themes: exclusion represented as a form of expulsion or excrecence, and the appeal to memory as an ethical imperative that disrupts the logic of monetary calculus in which the main characters live immersed
Reseña sobre Espejo de los detalles / Mirror of Details de Jesús Sepúlveda
No full textEn la reseña propongo que el poemario escrito por el poeta, es una representación del viaje que el hombre debe hacer desde la ciudad hasta la selva con el fin de purificarse y renacer.En la reseña propongo que el poemario escrito por el poeta, es una representación del viaje que el hombre debe hacer desde la ciudad hasta la selva con el fin de purificarse y renacer
Don’t Deputize Intolerance: Keeping Your Security Policies Safe from Your Patrons
Get PDFTo live in rural Oregon is to live in tension. Crook County exemplifies the tensions of living in rural Oregon in many ways, and not just because it is located dead center in the middle of the state. It also encapsulates the contradiction of some residents trying to keep a hold on a past they perceive as idyllic, while others live with the opportunities and harsh realities of the present. Crook County sees this contradiction reflected in its reliance on industries both historic and modern: ranching, wood products, and auto tires on the one hand, and data centers, health care, and hemp on the other. This tension can boil over into conflict, even when it comes to something as supposedly simple as a change in library policy.
Like in many other communities suffering identity crises, some people in Crook County, and its only incorporated town of Prineville, ran afoul of the rising use of opioids (Chaney, 2019). Those of us at the public library saw the effects firsthand. In 2018 and 2019, the library faced a confluence of opioid-adjacent situations. These incidents presented a serious security dilemma for the library where we worked as director and assistant director: How do we ensure safety for the most vulnerable patrons, including those experiencing adverse effects from drugs, while generally keeping the library welcoming for everyone? This dilemma led us to two security-related decisions: to forbid sleeping in the library and to install security cameras. Both decisions ultimately demonstrated how choices made, ostensibly, to protect patrons' physical safety, or to help some people feel more "secure," can adversely impact safety for patrons who are already marginalized
Inside Look: EOU’s Mobile Virtual Reality Lab
Get PDFAn American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant funded the establishment of a virtual reality lab at Eastern Oregon University (EOU) Library during the 2021-22 academic year. Virtual reality, or VR, simulates experiences with the aid of technology, most commonly specialized headsets that allow the user to see and feel like they are immersed in a virtual space. It can be used for gaming, entertainment, fitness, social interaction, and education. The project at EOU began with a collaboration with the Anatomy and Physiology course in which students investigated the inner workings of human organs and systems in VR as a lab assignment. The project has grown to include collaborations with History, Psychology, Health and Human Performance, Student Affairs, and other campus departments. The grant funding helped us to provide innovative digital content to our rural college students without any charge to them, and also helped to build learning experiences that were superior to what had been offered during the prior, more restrictive year of the pandemic. For the library, this wasn’t so much a pandemic-induced pivot as it was an opportunity to offer engaging, cutting-edge, free, and accessible learning experiences to our students
Oregon Bee Atlas: Wild bee findings from 2019
Get PDFThe Oregon Bee Atlas is a new volunteer-led effort to characterize the bee fauna of Oregon State by collecting, preparing and databasing specimens of wild bee species and their plant host records. In 2019 volunteers submitted 25,022 bee specimens across all Oregon counties, representing 224 unique bee species and 45 unique bee genera. Specimens were collected from a total of 352 unique flowering plant genera, resulting in the largest contemporary state-level database of bee-host plant interactions. Volunteers produced valuable occurrence records for species poorly known for the state, and species of conservation concern. The 2019 data builds on the efforts of 2018 in demonstrating the power of a specimen-focused, volunteer wild bee survey