We combine philosophy and text mining trying to understand the first one from other point of view.
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Will and desire along Modern Philosophy
Text mining can be used to understand deeply a corpus of texts. In this article I try it with the works of modern philosophers thinking about will and desire.
Tec21 challenge model
Work on Tecnológico de Monterrey is being a vibrant experience. We are now developing a new pedagogical model which is called Tec21. The model is a challenge based model where the students have to face problems and real situations, most of them in contact with a professional stakeholder. In this sense, the lessons have to …
Participation at the VIII International Conference of Borderlands
I participate with the paper Cyber borderlands and geopolitical crisis, at this International Conference on Thursday, October 3 at 5:30 pm; organized by Department of Humanities and Education of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. You can consult the paper on ResearchGate platform. Internet appears in the 90s as a promise of utopian state without borders or …
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Workshop “Data Mining for Humanities with R”
On II Digital Humanities Journeys | 11 October 2019 | Tec de Monterrey While data mining and statistical learning are born as tools of the exact sciences, business and government agencies, their value for human and social sciences has been increasingly demonstrated. Due to the growing interest aroused by the large amount of non-structure information …
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Collaboration on Automata’s Inner Movie book
My latest publication: “Is Big Data the new capture machine? Correlations between Data Mining and Gilles Deleuze philosophy”, in Curado, M. & Gouveia, S. S., (Eds.), Automata’s Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind, Vernon Press, 2019. Available at 24% discount using coupon CFC1720A4D2 at https://vernonpress.com/book/692 or on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Automatas-Inner-Movie-Philosophy-Psychology/dp/1622736311/
Rural and urban cultural thinking and action meeting
I was invited to discuss the possibilities of the cultural and artists actions which connects the rural and the urban. Because of my experience at Alg-a Laboratory where an independent community produced many contents related with art and technology, the purpose of the meeting was to share several experiences of this kind. You will find …
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herme3TIC-tv. Digital Humanities Lab
A prototype of a Digital Humanities Lab based on an interdisciplinary approach.
Areas of technological transvaluation through the Deleuze-Guattari philosophy
The philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari is used both to encourage the current technological and cybernetic evolution of society and to the contrary: to proclaim the need for areas and opaque layers to interconnectivity. Probably this is because technology itself is neutral: it depends on our uses and applications, the type of social formations that …
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Lapsus, interrupciones, balbuceos… Deleuze vs. NLP
Deleuze propone un pensamiento basado en el “infinitivo” (Lógica del sentido, 1969) donde la acción se suspende sobre sí misma en un eterno presente “sin espesor”. Si bien, esto ya había sido esbozado, según el propio Deleuze, en filosofías como la de Spinoza (Spinoza: Filosofía práctica, 1981), a través de las afecciones (en vez de accidentes) inmanentes de la substancia, el estudio deleuziano va más allá estudiando la agramaticalidad en sí misma como fenómeno de desbordamiento creativo.