January 2013
Some kind words from @Stephen_Curry on @openlibhums http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2013/01/31/open-access-journey-without-end/
Very pleased to welcome @uohistlib to our LibTech committee! http://bit.ly/WyR1S9
Real-Time Fact Checking With "Truth Teller" http://bit.ly/YkAt2q
FORCE11 Beyond the PDF Conference: 2. Amsterdam. 19th and 20th March, 2013. http://bit.ly/TvBK88
University applications remain worryingly down on previous years http://bit.ly/WwnuLQ
Michel Foucault parle de l’Archéologie du savoir au micro de France Culture, le 2 mai 1969 http://bit.ly/WNvNRr
Critical Fixes for the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act http://bit.ly/TS5VYo
Bill Gates: nice charity work, shame about the business practices http://gu.com/p/3dd7x
Barclays preparing to pay bonus of at least £1m to new chief Antony Jenkins http://gu.com/p/3ddm5
Lib Dems vote with Labour to reject constituency boundary review http://gu.com/p/3ddjv < good at protecting own interests buy still...
Advertised "physic evening". Presumably can see into the future, but not dictionary/spelling aid.
More on the Pope and the Frankfurt School here. Interesting. http://bit.ly/Yg0Qqi
I'm not wholly convinced of the Pope's grasp of Adorno and Horkheimer... http://bit.ly/W2Gdzg
Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of ‘Metamodernism’: Post-millennial Post-postmodernism? http://bit.ly/WyUeBi
Correct URL for the DFW article is http://bit.ly/WyUeBi - will re-tweet. Thanks to @tomwaitsripoff and @silentmachinery for spotting!
Exciting interview with two @openlibhums founders in the @chronicle today! http://bit.ly/WqKs6V
Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of 'Metamodernism': Post-millennial Post-postmodern http://bit.ly/WGrUhy
Westminster latest council to cut 100% of Arts and Culture budget. Just to ask: when we've paid off the deficit, what will we be living for?
Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of 'Metamodernism': Post-millennial Post-postmodernism?'
Martin Paul Eve, ‘Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of “Metamodernism”: Post-Millennial Post-Postmodernism?’, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 1 (2012), pp. 7-25. David Foster Wallace’s long standing ambition was to move beyond postmodern irony, which he claimed…
Report highlights lack of women and BME university professors http://bit.ly/Yeo6F6
Georges Perec, La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams http://bit.ly/ViWWwk
I am also teaching an *awesome* MA class this week on Adorno alongside David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"
My week will mostly consist of teaching a Caryl Churchill play, finishing writing book & working on @openlibhums discussion infrastructure
Samuel Beckett: Winter Warmed http://bit.ly/YcGv5b
Would really like to get down to Exeter to see this Endgame. Not sure I will, though. https://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/winter-warmed-endgame/
Poor Sleep Prevents Brain From Storing Memories http://bit.ly/Ws3zhc
Have some wonderful new additions to add to various @openlibhums committees and am also doing well on book, which is going off soonish!
I didn't submit to the HoL inquiry as was run off my feet. I have submitted to the BIS committee though.
Gene's Role In Rheumatoid Arthritis Revealed; Discovery May Extend To Other Autoimmune Diseases http://bit.ly/1126hyw
International Pynchon Week 2013 http://bit.ly/SYfgMo
The Bell Jar: 50th Anniversary http://bit.ly/Ya3ePl
Considerations on Marxism, Phenomenology and Power. Interview with Foucault in French and English (2012) http://bit.ly/122aZvn
A Robot With a Chainsaw! http://bit.ly/VdQJBO
Just launched: the OLH pledge! Help us to create a better OA academic publishing environment by pledging us an article: http://bit.ly/VqCywD
Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' – interview http://gu.com/p/3d9q2
Foucault on the New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science blog http://bit.ly/VabOwJ
1,000 postgraduates a year 'too poor' to take up Oxford place http://gu.com/p/3dcxj
Fury over lost London 2012 Games legacy as school sport funds dry up http://gu.com/p/3dc3d < oh, never saw that coming, oh no sir.
Kind news post about our new brand (although logo is under development!) on @OAopenaccess http://bit.ly/X0Dli1
Just for the record, (c) statement on @openlibhums was my mistake; it's now amended to the CC-BY license that I always intended.
Commentary on Foucault’s lectures at Stockerblog (2012-3) http://bit.ly/WAHBXn
Open Access: Revolutionary Disagreements and the Global Library http://bit.ly/TyCNoR
Robed
Off to my Ph.D. graduation ceremony in Brighton today. Humiliating hats await.
Against a bill of rights and principles for learning in the digital age http://bit.ly/W3Uv2p
CFP: ‘Exhibiting Performance’, University of Westminster, London, 1-3 March 2013 – DEADLINE: 11TH FEB! http://bit.ly/Y2KTUa
Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography. (ebook 2012) http://bit.ly/WjYE1I
A brief survey of the short story part 46: Roberto Bolaño http://gu.com/p/3dacd
Conference Paper: "Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Finch: Adorno, Utopia and http://bit.ly/WX0Jgy #Adorno #Finch_Report #Open_Access
Conference Paper: "Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Finch: Adorno, Utopia and Open Access Publishing" (Lincoln University)
Co-presented with Dr. Caroline Edwards: "Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Finch: Adorno, Utopia and Open Access Publishing", Lincoln University, 21st-Century Research Group, Weds 27th Feb 4.15-5.30, MC0024 This paper addresses the specific threats faced by the recent Finch Report and will be…
I can't be the only person with the urge to shout "Godwin's Law" every time Adorno references Nazism in essays on aesthetics.
http://Foucault.info site redesigned and updated (2013) http://bit.ly/XZ10lH
UK ISPs Respond To the Dangers of Using Carrier Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 http://bit.ly/XY8RzU
Just seen news of @VC_UEL's resignation on health grounds. Best wishes for a speedy recovery: we need voices like yours http://bit.ly/11QZneG
Catherine is also on Twitter, should you wish to follow her: @filmstudiesff
Very pleased to welcome Dr Catherine Grant and Prof James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon to the OLH Academic Steering Committee http://bit.ly/11QYQJI
English Literature and Culture research seminars Feb-March 2013 http://bit.ly/Tl9UfG
Many thanks to JISC Collections for plugging the OLH launch! http://bit.ly/WmmIy5
The less well-paid you are when you enter the labour market, the more your degree will now cost http://bit.ly/11QOLfC
In case you missed it, our PLOS-inspired humanities project begins: we are the Open Library of Humanities! @openlibhums http://bit.ly/YldtUP
(That said, Michael Eisen is advising us on the project!)
Just to clarify: OLH is the PLOHSS project that I proposed. We are not affiliated with PLOS, so the name had to change!
Very pleased to announce the Open Library of Humanities project http://bit.ly/YldtUP @openlibhums
The great Higher Education prediction league 2013 http://bit.ly/141lDCa
MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz http://bit.ly/VmIyTr
Michel Foucault à l’Université Catholique de Louvain en 1981: le pouvoir (video interview) http://bit.ly/UMLUiC
Deep-end teaching (increased likelihood at end of term). Step 1: draw 2 circles. Step 2: draw the rest of the owl.
If any followers are in the British Library, that's my destination today. Working on book and The Big Project (tm).
Débat autour de Foucault et Rencontre Avec Frédéric Gros (2013) http://bit.ly/WuAZJw
Oxford college sued over using 'selection by wealth' for admissions http://gu.com/p/3d7f6
Marking, I am no longer in you, as the meme goes.
Oh for heaven's sake. The CC-BY OA FUD is repeated in latest LRB.
CFP for conference on Rushdie in the 21st C. http://bit.ly/10mvtOT
Falling behind responding to people on here as well as email; bear with me.
Are journal prices going up or down? http://bit.ly/STwfRe
Lots of project emails sent, now back to marking.
Call for papers: "Re-visiting Pynchon's V. Fifty years later" http://bit.ly/S9juR2 [PDF]
Open Access taking off, part II: visions http://bit.ly/XFU7FD
Theological evolutionist preaching on the Enfield train. Man vehemently arguing back. Didn't realise this happened off the internet.
Highlight of the morning: student staying after class to talk about how they'd read this *amazing* book called /Gravity's Rainbow/...
Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing http://bit.ly/VjVcU2
Q&A with me in Library Journal: Why We Need a Public Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences http://bit.ly/VjxxmN
Q&A with me in Library Journal: Why We Need a Public Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences
There's a Q&A with me that has just been published in Library Journal on why we need a public library of the humanities and social sciences (a "PLOS-like" project -- but not officially affiliated). Meanwhile the project continues to make progress; we're currently building up the various committees…
Why the fuss over Tony Harrison's poem V? http://bbc.in/VYnUuj
Une analytique du pouvoir: Entretien avec Judith Butler (2012) http://bit.ly/11xFSYt
The gittish side of me wishes there was an option, when booking train seat reservations, labelled "not next to anybody else".
I look forward to MPs pay being decided on "on the basis of perceived performance" http://bit.ly/11wMJRK
Teaching Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, which has some fantastic resonances with British Modernism. Also, my first seminars at Lincoln!
Secret papers show extent of senior royals' veto over bills http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills < democracy.
Lecture on ideology in literature is hotting up with some Gulliver's travels to demonstrate narratological analysis.
Deadline for Modernist Intimacies conference has been extended. http://bit.ly/ZwZKKC
Chris Daley on Railways and Fiction in @AlluviumJournal featured on the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture http://bit.ly/VFnA4f
All trains out of Kings X delayed or cancelled at the moment.
It's early and I'm off to Lincoln. You probably have your own windows, so this is redundant, but... SNOW!
Private NHS providers in line for corporation tax exemption http://gu.com/p/3d3fn
Anna McMullan on 60 Years of Godot http://bit.ly/W2LAuo
Right. Signing off for the evening; journal article submitted, much PLOHSS stuff done, all is good. Meeting loads of great people.
On Opposition to *any* APC model http://bit.ly/UX8J2L
On Opposition to *any* APC model
Just to share my response to a comment on the PLOHSS project from somebody who claimed that: Any form of APC was unacceptable All APCs would be viewed as vanity publication Me: I think the "vanity publishing" argument is totally fallacious; it's clear that the review process would be completed…
An update on the PLOHSS project http://bit.ly/ROIk8C
An update on the PLOHSS project
An email that I just sent out to people who have expressed an interest. If you'd like to know more, visit http://www.plohss.org or email me with "PLOHSS" in the topic. Dear all, First of all, I must express my sincere gratitude to everybody who responded to my call; the enthusiasm so far has been…
Arcturus Theater Company: 3 by Samuel Beckett http://bit.ly/V39Ul1
I presume Julie Burchill wants a career at the Daily Mail? This trans-hatred piece is utterly disgusting @Guardian http://bit.ly/Y2VuSI
Enjoying tweaking up the American Lit. modules for next year. Tomorrow, PLOHSS stuff. Watch inboxes.
. @CAPittard I suppose that Araucarian could be used to mean: wilful deviation from Ximenean compliance to enhance a clue's playfulness...
Volume 2, Issue 1 of @AlluviumJournal is now out! You should go read it...
Most respected cryptic crossword setter of 20th century (maybe), Araucaria, has terminal cancer. Revealed in crossword. http://bit.ly/V1MoC7
Comment lire L’Archéologie du savoir de Michel Foucault ? (2013) http://bit.ly/XX8BF3
More (higher ed) media madness! http://bit.ly/UVs9sF
MPs want a 32% pay rise this year to £86,250. "Conservatives were the most likely to believe they were underpaid"... http://bit.ly/11kdNUc
Off for a day at the British Library!
Calling student coders: Hardcode, the secure coding contest for App Engine http://bit.ly/VVuQFB
Currently working on committee structure for the different areas of the PLOS-style project; academic, LibTech etc. http://bit.ly/VTh2ey
An amazing lineup at the Sussex Research Hive seminars. @CameronNeylon and @ellenscollins http://bit.ly/SmsTG9
Report on @DrKatyShaw's "Teaching Post-Millennial Literature" conference, with nice mention of me & @LincolnEnglish http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/disciplines/english/post-millennial-literature
Wow! The new Lincoln "web profile" setup has a field for ORCID ID!
Lecture slide title of the morning: "Descartes Unchained".
Interview with Gary Gutting http://bit.ly/UC9TiA
Many thanks all for the already excellent response to my call for participants for a PLOHSS. I'll get back to you over the next few days!
Suspect the call to build a PLOS-style model for the humanities & social sciences will interest #phdchat and #ecrchat http://bit.ly/VTh2ey
Call For Participants to Build a PLOS-style Model for the Humanities and Social Sciences http://bit.ly/WOPYNu
Call For Participants to Build a PLOS-style Model for the Humanities and Social Sciences
For quite some time, I have been interested in/incensed by the scholarly publication system; the exclusions, iniquities and absurdities of it can be clearly seen from only a brief survey of the economic field. I have watched with despair as the sciences have made projects work while the humanities…
(Pork and apple in a cider sauce tonight)
Details of a big project I'm working on are leaking out - full post later - but for now I must fulfill resolution to cook properly.
“I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students." -- Michel Foucault
Success configuring Lincoln's printers for my remote usage pleasure. By "pleasure" I mean "printing".
One-trick ponies: bands that keep reworking the same song - http://m.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jul/27/one-trick-ponies < piece in Guardian citing Adorno!
Steam Linux Console Gets Detailed At CES http://bit.ly/WqHWtE
On digital divides and the rise of the super-humanist, by @ernestopriego. *dons cape and flies* http://bit.ly/VAJ1QZ
*Twitter goes into meltdown over new Bowie album*
More awfu... Err, great, philosophy jokes there from @izzydann and @blangry to brighten your morning!
Oh Foucault, are you a structuralist? Don't be Saussure. #theoldonesaretheworst
Catherine Malabou. Jacques Derrida’s Critique of Foucault and Agamben (2012) http://bit.ly/UROFzK
Nice interview with Richard Stallman on software freedom and ethics (what else?) http://bit.ly/109vSFd
Enjoying writing a lecture for second years on Foucault. You don't have to be mad to study here as it's a historically contingent construct.
[*last tweet requires a real operating system]
Just to point out an ace guide by @fak3r: if you need to archive emails from one account by forwarding them http://bit.ly/13bz6ql
Don't forget that the deadline for the Modernist Intimacies conference CFP is the 15th of January http://bit.ly/ZwZKKC
Hoping that this marks a return to normal service after an overloaded Christmas period!
Heading off for my first day in new job. Morning has started well: finished a journal article for submission & made website for new project.
On the entrepreneurial university and the social factory http://bit.ly/UXNPCA
But teachers don't do brain transplants MT @miconm: But parents are paying customers! MT @tele_education: http://tgr.ph/UqW8s5
The Worlds of Thomas Pychon -- RMMLA 2013 http://bit.ly/RxTL4q
The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software http://bit.ly/1384epO
New Pynchon Novel! Fall 2013: "Bleeding Edge" http://bit.ly/134eosp #Pynchon
New Pynchon Novel! Fall 2013: "Bleeding Edge"
Ron Charles has tweeted that a new Pynchon novel will be published by Penguin in Fall 2013. Entitled Bleeding Edge the work will not quite be out in time for International Pynchon Week 2013, but... wow. Charles stated that two Penguin employees had confirmed the news to him and there's already a…
Judging Teachers: Foucault, governance and agency during education reforms (2012) http://bit.ly/UsGU1Y
I'm off to Lincoln!
Security Firm Predicts "Murder By Internet-Connected Devices" http://bit.ly/S6brWc
Today is the day of my Great North(ish) Migration! Van hire, book box loading, Lincolnwards moving.
That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros http://bit.ly/Vvklcn
Life in the Panopticon: Thoughts on Freedom in an Era of Pervasive Surveillance (2012) http://bit.ly/WluOX2
Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats http://bit.ly/Wedh2B
Rail fare structure 'not ideal', admits transport minister, Sherlock Holmes http://gu.com/p/3cnq9
Interview with Daniel Defert (2010) http://bit.ly/UHDlXW
You can see the @contemporaryfic schedule at http://is.gd/TDTZ6a
An exciting @contemporaryfic schedule for this term - particularly looking forward to "Modernist Afterlives".
Have almost finished all my reading for next term now and am prepping for the move Lincoln-wards.
What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't http://bit.ly/U46o9q