Summary: In this episode, Ted Striphas, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (Columbia University Press 2023), considering how some pre-digital human systems functioned through repetitive structures and automated processes that have similarities to electronic algorithms. They discuss how cognition has become digitized, dispersed across algorithmic and biological systems, and…
Próximamente… Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Ted Striphas, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet. Carmen Haydée Rivera, Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States. Jason Weiss, Other Lives Our Own. John Guillory, Professing Criticism. Nicholas Thompson, The…
Resumen: En este episodio, Alex Rivera Cartagena y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera de la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, conversan sobre Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (Columbia U. Press, 2023) por Ted Striphas, considerando cómo un mundo predigital funcionaba por estructuras repetitivas y procesos automáticos. Ponemos especial atención en la lengua como tecnología fundamental: un sistema de reglas compartidas que…
Resumen: My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts (Swan Isle Press, 2025) by Luis Rechani Agrait was translated into English by William Carlos Williams but not published in his lifetime. This first-ever edition of Williams’s translation was edited and has an introduction by Jonathan Cohen. It includes a foreword by Julio Marzán and an afterword by…
Resumen: En su conversación sobre Golpe de Agua, (Ediciones Enserio, 2021), un poemario póstumo de Sonia M. (Chiqui) Rosa Vélez, Mariam Ludim Rosa Vélez, Irmarie Cruz, Stacy Hernández y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera dialogan sobre la capacidad sanadora de las palabras, la cultura de la diáspora puertorriqueña, la poesía como recurso en las humanidades médicas, entre otros…
Ultra-Processed People: Why we Can’t Stop Eating Food that isn’t Food, Angie Natalia Bustos, Marianna Lahie Luna y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera.
Summary: In “[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson” (William Carlos Williams Review, Volume 41, Number 2, 2024), Walter Scott Peterson argues that as a physician-poet Dr. Williams approaches his poetic material very much as he approaches his patients, and that the form of Paterson in particular is intentionally and actually reminiscent of the various forms…
Summary: In the late 1890s a US congressman argued that the United States had the right to seize Cuba because he believed it was made of silt that had washed out of the mouth of the Mississippi River which made it literally US soil. That story inspired Puerto Rican Jewish poet Aurora Levins Morales to…
Resumen: Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts (MIT, 2025) por Samuel Jay Keyser (MIT) aporta un profundo y matizado análisis de cómo la repetición funciona como herramienta creativa, como componente de la cognición y de las emociones, y como tanto, una dimensión de la experiencia humana. En este encuentro, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Lilliam Larregoity Pérez…
Summary: “Age, Creativity and Culture: Reconsidering how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation” by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera appeared in Nuevos Horizontes in 2024. The article examines age as a dimension of identity, creativity and cognition, and in this episode, Heidi Landecker, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Jenny Wilson consider the importance of age in intergenerational relationships.…