Other Lives Our Own (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)
Jason Weiss, “Other Lives Our Own” (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)
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2027: “La lógica colonial del talento,” una serie con Sonia Sánchez, Jorge Rodríguez Acevedo, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Brian Torres, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Héctor Huyke, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Rocío Zambrana y otros. Próximamente… • Sharon Stein, Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. • Domenico Fiormonte, “Descolonizar el conocimiento digital.” • David Nemer, Technology of the Oppressed.…
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford 2024)
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford, 2024) Esta conversación sobre The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford 2024) incluye a Iliaris Avilés, UPR-M; Alex Rivera Cartagena, UPR-M; Héctor José Huyke, UPR-M, y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, UPR-M. Este episodio es una…
My Excellency: A Comedy in Three Acts (Swan Isle Press, 2025)
My Excellency: A Comedy in Three Acts (Swan Isle Press, 2025) La obra My Excellency: A Comedy in Three Acts (Swan Isle Press, 2025), de Luis Rechani Agrait, fue traducida al inglés por William Carlos Williams, pero no se publicó en vida del autor. Esta primera edición de la traducción de Williams fue editada y…
Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground
The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports (Penguin, 2025) In this episode, Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, and University of Puerto Rico professors Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Maritza Stanchich, discuss something deceptively simple: putting one foot in front of the other—and how that act can reshape the way we perceive the world. Seizing an…
The AI Con
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (Harper, 2025) In this episode, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss the looming social, cultural, and knowledge catastrophe described in The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (Harper, 2025). They explore how narratives around…
Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States
Resumen: Migración, bilingüismo, identidad, movimiento y las palabras que las une – estas son algunos temas que vienen a la mente cuando uno abre Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States, (Centro Press, 2023), editada por Carmen Haydée Rivera. En este episodio, Carmen Haydée Rivera, Lola Rosario Aponte y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera conversan sobre la experiencia diaspórica…
Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (English)
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…
Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (español)
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…
My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts
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…