Amazing teach-in programme at the Sussex occupation via @re_activism http://bit.ly/XcDoMp

The Chomsky Foucault Debate http://bit.ly/VPiWAd

Panic in Greek pharmacies as hundreds of medicines run short http://gu.com/p/3e4hx

DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political http://bit.ly/YDZ7gg

Cloud Atlas author translates autistic teenager's memoir http://gu.com/p/3e4xp

Foucault: Lectures on the Will to Know (2013) http://bit.ly/XeIhTD

Here's me in the Guardian on Pynchon's forthcoming novel! http://bit.ly/Zxv3BF

"The Humanities and Permission Barriers: Please use CC-BY" -- a piece I wrote for @burnablebooks http://bit.ly/XXPBAv

Michel Foucault. Philosophe et militant (2013) http://bit.ly/XaoRiU

We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects http://bit.ly/YsKslU

Argument re CC-BY and plagiarism well paraphrased by @the_blochian last week: does library access facilitate plagiarism?

Buying Your Way Onto the NY Times Bestsellers List http://bit.ly/ZC2JBW

Georgia rushes through executions before the expiry date of their drugs. Hoping they will be unable to continue soon. http://bit.ly/XCNGUy

Thomas Pynchon, Philosophy, Ethics http://bit.ly/ZBGdsT

Article title trivializes, but autonomous warfare, the next step up from grim unmanned drones, is horrific. http://bit.ly/W034xx

Ince's piece: http://bit.ly/15Ge1FU Ipsos Mori poll showing that public trust Doctors, Teachers and Professors most: http://bit.ly/mlHFrm

Robin Ince writes piece demanding more fact, less opinion. Piece based on opinion that academics/experts aren't trusted. Facts disagree.

Althusser, Foucault e la crisi del marxismo (2013) http://bit.ly/ZqF8jN < sounds amazing. Wish I could go (and had better Italian).

John Hurt returns to Krapp's Last Tape (2012) http://bit.ly/X21IiB

Personal music tweet. Very happy with the arrival of my new KLF recovered and remastered set!

Seems that while we were speaking to @theprofrog's gang, OA directives (avoiding "mandate") went global http://whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research @the_blochian

Also had a mega-generous response from an academic whose work I subjected to a fairly harsh critique in a journal article.

Spoke on OA to Birkbeck staff today with @the_blochian. Met with @drmagennis. Wrote some book. Did some @openlibhums work. A good day!

Publishers successfully lobbying UK Lords committee? http://bit.ly/VB8a0m

Foucault, government and acts of obedience (2012) http://bit.ly/WXG8M8

Mosquitoes Exhibit Decreased Repellency by DEET following Previous Exposure http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054438

Press release on Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling http://bit.ly/156KCn3

BSJ: The B.S. Johnson Journal http://bit.ly/WYohGq

The Unread and the Unreadable http://bit.ly/WPnqpV

Foucault and the history of our present (2013) http://bit.ly/WPnq9t

Linux 3.8 Released http://bit.ly/W7KrCi

What's Haruki Murakami's new novel going to be about? http://gu.com/p/3dpqe

Comic-book superheroine Cat (by @willbrooker) aims to see off gender stereotypes http://gu.com/p/3dpzf

The premises and purposes of American exceptionalism | Glenn Greenwald http://gu.com/p/3dpyz

Du néolibéralisme au néocapitalisme ? Quelques réflexions à partir de Foucault (2012) http://bit.ly/WQvKas

Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts http://bit.ly/XHpL3E

Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network http://bit.ly/W3ngsJ

An open peer-reviewed article by @charlottefrost http://bit.ly/YvdmCd

"IDS tells BBC 'most young people love' the gov work programme but some 'think they are too good for it'" < the ones who want to be "paid"?

Blogging Platform Posterous To Shut Down April 30 http://bit.ly/Vr6A3C

Letters: Slaves to an outdated concept of history teaching http://gu.com/p/3dp3q

. @arrroberts: last of the SF writers, featuring @the_blochian, @chriscallowjr & @newgenrearmy by @damiengwalter http://gu.com/p/3dzeq

I survived the bombing of Dresden and continue to believe it was a war crime | Victor Gregg http://gu.com/p/3dzfc

Julia Donaldson defends libraries from Terry Deary's attack http://gu.com/p/3dzpp

The Tunguska event of 1908, a similar meteor strike to that just seen in Russia, plays a key part in Pynchon's Against the Day, by the way.

Call for papers by @Excursions_J on "Purity" at @SussexUni. Looks interesting! http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/50100

Colin Gordon, A Note On “Becker On Ewald On Foucault On Becker” (2013) http://bit.ly/Vkirhq

Jonathan Franzen and Contemporary Realisms Friday 22nd March http://bit.ly/WrFxC5

How's it going? http://bit.ly/Wrd5QU

Samuel Beckett’s Plays on BBC Television http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/2013/02/samuel-beckett-plays-bbc-tv.html

Bourdieu and Foucault: A Conceptual Integration Toward an Empirical Sociology of Prisons (2012) http://bit.ly/12MhPph

Why has Marine Le Pen been invited to Cambridge? http://gu.com/p/3dn37

PeerJ, A New Open Access Megajournal Launches http://bit.ly/XAc7mm

"This is not the Victorian age, when we wanted to allow the impoverished access to literature." Hmm. http://gu.com/p/3dnxn

GCSE English grades legal challenge rejected by high court http://gu.com/p/3dmnx

A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot (2013) http://bit.ly/X71tAF

Teaching Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman to supremely enthused students after meeting with @josswinn made for a not-so-bad day!

Ordering of proceedings for the Iraq War Culture event at Birkbeck now online http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/ccl/news-and-events/IraqWarCultureschedule.pdf [PDF]

Beautiful new edition of Gravity's Rainbow that my friend just sent me!

Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves http://bit.ly/12Hwm5B

The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, Death and the Labyrinth, and the Interview as Genre (2012) http://bit.ly/Y5oRxL

Secret memo shows Michael Gove's plan for privatisation of academies http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/secret-memo-shows-michael-goves-plan-for-privatisation-of-academies-8488552.html via @Independent

Conference Paper: "Too many goddamn echoes": Historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's /Point Omega/', Birkbeck http://bit.ly/YjnqMK

Le Kant de Foucault, une lecture téléologique de l’anthropologie (2012) http://bit.ly/WOZAu2

The care-of-self ethic with continual reference to Socrates: towards ethical self-management (2012) http://bit.ly/1295iHy

The Foucault Circle 2013 http://bit.ly/UGl3bz

A good day with JISC talking @oapenuk. Mix of publishers, librarians and researchers in the room interesting.

Transport really stuffing my route to JISC this morning. Train cancelled from Bush Hill Park. Victoria Line totally suspended. @carenmilloy

More conflation of "gold" with "APCs" this morning. Colour =dissemination mode, nor business model. Rinse, wash, repeat.

Quick question: those who have submitted evidence to BIS Open Access Inquiry... Did you receive any acknowledgement or response?

Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity (2013) http://bit.ly/WvW9tS

Michael Gove forced into U-turn on GCSE replacement plan http://gu.com/p/3dj3f

Trolls and Tribulations http://bit.ly/11pXLcT

Rushdie in the 21st Century (22 June 2013) http://bit.ly/11pZP4s

Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles http://bit.ly/11pTFBp

Laughing so hard that Gove cited Gramsci. Clearly hasn't ever read him. http://bit.ly/14E5Mc2

Unsurprisingly "my" hard-right MP representative stood on the wrong side of history yesterday and voted against.

Some exciting third year dissertations looking like they're heading my way for supervision; love it when they're on my direct interests.

New article by @AlbertRolls1 up on /Orbit/. "Thomas Pynchon and the Vacuum Salesman in Guadalajara" http://bit.ly/Y9Ad4s

Final seminar on Woman in Black today, lecture on Foucault amid various meetings before scooting to London for @oapenuk meeting tomorrow.

Un inédit de Michel Foucault : « La Parrêsia ». Note de présentation http://bit.ly/11nWm6y

If you have an interest in thinking through how we can integrate non-English submissions into the @openlibhums project, please get in touch.

Now off to teach my final two seminars of the day. The Woman in Black. Can't say it's my favourite text. Gothic Pomo etc.

Transition of @openlibhums to SSL underway. Apologies if you receive insecure content warnings or have trouble accessing during DNS switch.

University experiment likely to shrink higher education permanently http://gu.com/p/3df4z

Why are many academics on short-term contracts for years? http://gu.com/p/3dftj

Ludwig Binswanger, Rêve et existence New French translation (2013) http://bit.ly/TD0FGA

Today, my book manuscript went to the printers, ready to be sent off for review. Hurrah!

My contribution to @sa4qe this year is going to have to be today's work writing a lecture on Hoban's Riddley Walker.

British Library has a "young patron's" scheme that costs £41/month. How many people in their 20s, who use the BL, can really afford that?

Richard III in Leicester: a note of scepticism http://gu.com/p/3dgqb

Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin http://bit.ly/YwxNyU

OLH committee discussion infrastructure very nearly there now. A bit more testing this week and then we're off!

Draft Siegfried Sassoon poem reveals controversial lines cut from Atrocities http://gu.com/p/3dgaz

Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to tax avoidance http://gu.com/p/3dg7c < worth repeating. Often.

Does anybody with them have an opinion on EE and their 4G? Mostly work in King's Cross area...

Samuel Beckett's Library http://bit.ly/VIgTwM

Thomas Pynchon: Signed Books http://bit.ly/UPIdKb

Michael Gove advisers face claims of smear tactics against foes http://gu.com/p/3dgec

The Beckett Circle on Barney Rosset http://bit.ly/WL8AkQ

UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Rewritten To Boot All Linux Versions http://bit.ly/Y07EWU

How to disco dance the EDL off Google and Facebook http://gu.com/p/3dfqf

Three Things Students Can Do Now to Promote Open Access http://bit.ly/11pwrdK

Where's The Crit? Blog post by grad student Jesse Sherwood with mention of @openlibhums http://lettersfromyonder.com/2013/02/01/daily-wheres-the-crit/

New co-edited book by @sadiseshiah now listed @PalgraveLit, Twenty-First Century Fiction http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=604037

Another busy day but wholly productive. If you're owed an email, it's coming. Also hoping to get @openlibhums infrastructure up at weekend.

Michel Foucault: the unconscious of history and culture (2013) http://bit.ly/12eaLkY