Category: Reading
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Recursive Historiographical Work and the Responsibility of the Historian: Adrian Johns
Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Recursive Historiographical Work and the Responsibility of the Historian: Adrian Johns‘ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/e/recursive-historiographical-work-and-the-responsibility-of-the-historian-adrian-johns-1428923430/ This interview with historian Adrian Johns by Janneke…
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Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles
Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles‘ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/e/technogenesis-and-media-specific-analysis-n-katherine-hayles/ This interview with literary scholar N. Katherine Hayles by Janneke Adema…
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On Liquid Books and Fluid Humanities (part III)
Chapter 6 of my thesis explores both the discursive-material practices that have promoted the idea and use of the book as a fixed object of communication, as well as more fluid, flowing visions of information transmission that are commonly attached to digital forms of communication. It focuses on why it is that we cut and…
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The Monograph Crisis Revisited
Last week, on the 22nd of January, the report Monographs and Open Access, written by Geoffrey Crossick for HEFCE, was released. I would like to respond to the specific way in which the monograph crisis is described and represented in this report. I want to do so by emphasising the multiple dimensions as well as…
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Performative Publications
Last spring I worked on a project together with 2nd year design students Nabaa Baqir, Mila Spasova and Serhan Curti to create an alternative take on, or an artist’s book out of the article ‘The political nature of the book. On artists’ books and radical open access’, which was written by myself and Gary Hall…
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The perseverance of print-based authorship within humanities scholarship (III)
Chapter 3 of my thesis focuses on authorship, and you can find a draft of the second part of the chapter underneath. As I stated before, any feedback is of course more than welcome but please take into account that these are just fragments in process which are part of a larger (undefined) ‘whole’. You…
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Last weekend I gave a paper at the Resurrecting the Book conference in Birmingham, organised by The Library of Birmingham, Newman University, the Typographic Hub at Birmingham City University and The Library of Lost Books to celebrate the opening of the new public Library of Birmingham in the UK. Underneath some of my notes pertaining to what I thought…
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Materialities of Text
New Formations recently published a very exciting new issue, edited by Sas Mays and Nicholas Thoburn on ‘Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net’. Gary Hall and I contributed an article on the political nature of the book, in which we make a comparison between the political nature of artists’ books and open…
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Robert Darnton – Blogging: Now and Then (250 years ago)
Things have been quiet here for quite a while now but I am hoping to upload a selection of new posts/writings in the next months, both new draft bits of my dissertation and some other writings on books and Open Access. For now I wanted to share my notes on a master class with book…
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APE 2010: The Semantic Desktop and the Article of the Future
During the second and third day of the APE conference three presentations were given which focused on services that would aid the information worker through the information overload. They were all based on filtering out the essential information through web based services and interfaces centered on the (scholarly) user of these information resources. Andreas Dengel…
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Historical Sensationalism. On the Morality of History
Yesterday evening, Marita Mathijsen, one of the leading Dutch literary historians, gave the 38th Huizinga-lecture at the St. Pieterskerk in Leiden. An elaborate version of this lecture has been published in a print edition, and a summary of the lecture is available at NRC Handelsblad (both in Dutch). Underneath my rendering and translation of her…