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Big Black: Stand at Attica
Full text linkA review of the 2020 book by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Ameziane, "Big Black: Stand at Attica," for inclusion in ARLIS/NA's 2020 Notable Graphic Novels Review
Review: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
No full textA review of the 2021 book by Alison Bechdel, “The Secret to Superhuman Strength,” for inclusion in ARLIS/NA's 2021 Notable Graphic Novels Review
La naissance du portrait dans l’espace orthodoxe : Représenter l’auteur dans les livres grecs du début du XVIIIe siècle
Full text linkThe birth of portrait in the orthodox space: representations of an individual in Greek books printed in Bucharest and in Venice at the beginning of the 18th century. First Greek typographies, organized to provide churches with liturgical texts and to disseminate anti-Latin polemical writings among the Orthodox flock, emerged in the West, primarily in Venice with its considerable Orthodox Greek population. At the end of the 17th century, the printing presses with Greek type appeared also in Romanian principalities due to the support of local princes. The long Western tradition of publishing in Greek influenced in significant way book printing in Eastern Europe. Patriarch Dositheus of Jerusalem and his successor Chrysanthus Notaras, who were the most important promoters of Greek book publishing in Romanian principalities, were closely connected with Western circles of intellectuals, especially with those, who were active in book publishing. Orthodox church hierarchs used all opportunities for the dissemination of Orthodox texts, collaborating in book editing with Western publishers and trying to introduce new editing practices to their own typographies. One of such inventions was the introduction of modern Western-style figural portraits of the authors or patrons, previously represented in the editions only by their coats of arms. The first example of such illustration in a book published in Bucharest is the famous portrait of the patriarch Dositheus of Jerusalem, integrated in the “History of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem” (1715, 1722?). The present paper focuses on the “invention of the portraits” of individuals, spread in the Orthodox world from the beginning of the 18th century, their stylistic particularities and the collaboration of patriarchs of Jerusalem Dositheus and Chrysanthos with Parisian and Venetian etchers in order to embellish editions, issued for the Orthodox readers under their auspices
Review of #SuchStuff Podcast by the London Globe, Early Modern Digital Review 6.2 (2023): 149-153
No full textEducational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education department, the #SuchStuff podcast offers thematic dialogues that can be categorized as a “conversationalist chat show.” Listeners and podcasters meeting in digital space may be “such stuff as dreams are made on,” but the important topics of social justice covered by this series will not melt into thin air
"Introduction" from Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology
No full textSurround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, and argues that their endurance owes primarily to the longstanding battles between stereo and mono technologies. Throughout the book, Eric Dienstfrey analyzes newly discovered archival materials and myriad stereo releases, from Hell’s Angels (1930) to Get Out (2017), to show how Hollywood’s financial dependence on mono prevented filmmakers from seeing surround sound’s full aesthetic potential. Though studios initially explored stereo’s unique capabilities, Dienstfrey details how filmmakers eventually codified a conservative set of surround-sound techniques that prevail today, despite the arrival of more immersive formats
Abstracts for panel, "Anthropology and Speculative Fiction," MLA 2024
Full text link"Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning" Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
"Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina," Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
"H. G. Wells’s Fetishism " Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
Respondent: Frank A. Palmeri, U of Miam
EXPERIENCES OF SECURITY GUARDS SERVING IN DIOCESAN SCHOOLS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A CASE STUDY
Full text linkThis study explores the life of the school security guard in the context of “new normal” brought about by the global pandemic. As educational institutions adapt to the challenges of this unprecedented era, the role of school security guard has become increasingly vital in maintaining a safe and secure environment for students, staff, and visitors. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the unique challenges, responsibilities, and experiences faced by school security guards during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research utilizes a qualitative approach, employing in-depth interview to gather data from school security guards rendering duties in the diocesan school. The findings of this study highlight the multifaceted role played by school security guards during the pandemic. They serve as frontline workers, responsible for implementing and enforcing safety protocols, managing access control, and ensuring the well-being of students, staff, and visitors. The findings also reveal that school security guards have demonstrated remarkable adaptability and resilience in the face of the new normal. They have embraced their expanded responsibilities and successfully implemented health and safety protocols within their schools. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration and effective communication among all stakeholders involved in school security including school administrators, policy makers and local security agencies in developing comprehensive strategies to address the evolving security needs. The findings further underscore the significance of fostering a supportive and inclusive environment that prioritizes the well-being of school security guards and the entire school community
Argumentation, Metaphor, and Analogy: It's Like Something Else
Full text linkA "good" arguer is like an architect with a penchant for civil and civic engineering. Such an arguer can design and present their reasons artfully about a variety of topics, as good architects do with a plenitude of structures and in various environments. Failures in this are rarely hidden for long, as poor constructions reveal themselves, often spectacularly, so collaboration among civical engineers can be seen as a virtue. Our logical virtues should be analogous. When our arguments fail due to being uncivil and demagogic, since we inhabit the arguments we build, we are all crushed beneath our flawed reasoning. This mixed metaphor takes us to a self-referential analysis of argumentation, analogy, and humor. I argue that good argumentation strives to collaboratively convince rather than belligerently persuade. A convincing means toward this end is through humorous analogical arguments, whether the matter at hand is ethical, logical, theological, phenomenological, epistemological, metaphysical, political, or about baseball