Abstract Bachata has used mass media throughout its history to foster a sense of inclusion and community among fans, from Radio Guarachita in the 1960s livestreaming on social twenty-first century. This article considers how Dominican Facebook Live program, El Tieto eShow , continues bachata’s intimate relationship with through creation development virtual imagined bachata enthusiasts around gl...

The target of this research is decrease or eliminate the training stage, when a new subject uses a braincomputer interface (BCI) based on imagined speech. In the training phase it is necessary to acquire enough information to identify the patterns that allow to distinguish what the subject imagines to pronounce. Then, in imagined speech, like any other evoked potential, the training process is ...

This article foregrounds pandemic fiction’s subversive and visionary potential through the example of Ling Ma’s dystopian novel "Severance" (2018). Emphasizing capacity for symbolic intervention in a era, I argue that text undermines tropes nation-building strategic employment minor feelings, opacity, spectral liminality. My analysis focuses on Chinese American protagonist’s conflicted relation...