December 2013
The Verge: Here's what could have entered the public domain in 2014 http://google.com/producer/s/CBIwx9Hx1g8
Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text http://zpr.io/gmZ7
No words for that last RT. I suspect those liberal tears were for the children killed.
Grayling says European court of human rights has lost legitimacy http://gu.com/p/3yfya < given coalition he's in, he'd know all about that
Fibromyalgia solved: Not in the mind, but a very real physical ailment http://c.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/steps-authentic-happiness-positive-psychology/2013/dec/29/fibromyalgia-solved-pathology-not-mind/#.UsF3IG8Ukf8.twitter
Study suggests we're all susceptible to false memories http://google.com/producer/s/CBIwmpLpzw8
Samuel Beckett and Quietism http://zpr.io/gM2f
A list of good stuff done by @Protohedgehog this year: http://bit.ly/1czyP61
@Protohedgehog not quite sure why I'm in scored out text there, but good post!
My 2013 academic year in review http://bit.ly/1hNMHe6
Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings http://zpr.io/gMFi
My 2013 academic year in review
As a round-up of the academic stuff I have achieved over the past year, purely for my own benefit and in anticipation of like-minded posts from my Twitter followers with whom I would like to engage in group collective congratulations, here's a list! First, and most importantly, I have been doing my…
A post about December, suicide and feeling wanted by my friend @A1GOY http://him.uk.msn.com/blog/msn-him-blogpost.aspx?post=da2a21c5-768e-44eb-b6a2-bd0d61ff701b
Foucault’s La société punitive – some additional thoughts on the second half http://zpr.io/gMAv
Foucault’s La société punitive – some initial thoughts on the first half http://zpr.io/gMA4
Why I'm a fan of open source software: An argument by anecdote/example http://bit.ly/1il3cB6
Why I'm a fan of open source software: An argument by anecdote/example
An argument by anecdote. My prized Christmas present this year (which I obtained by selling a load of old electronics that I didn't want/need) was a pair of Parrot Zik headphones. They're wonderful. They paired with my Android phone flawlessly and they also connected with superb ease to my Linux…
If you haven't yet listened to the Pynchon in Public Podcast Holiday Special, then your Christmas remains incomplete http://bit.ly/1cW03jQ
I just implemented the beginning of our meTypeset size classifier while watching Muppet Christmas Carol http://bit.ly/1boGak7
beyond the space-time of debt and privatisation http://zpr.io/gE2j
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books http://zpr.io/gE2Z
Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault (2013) http://zpr.io/gE26
(To the theme of Rawhide): keep marking, marking, marking, even though it's Christmas, get those essays graded, right now!
Glad someone is standing up for those poor under-paid souls. Hmmm.
Ah, I'd missed that. Osborne launching legal challenge against EU ruling that bankers can "only" receive bonus of 100% of their salary.
Les néolibéralismes de Michel Foucault (2013-14) http://zpr.io/gEqF
[You probably shouldn't buy it through Amazon, though, but posted because I couldn't resist and seems first venue to list]
My book is now available as the perfect Christmas pre-order for the academic library in your life. http://amzn.to/193nKpi
Hey Boy, Hegel #popphilosophy @PlashingVole @DrMagennis @knightsben
(There's my flippant tongue-in-cheek statement of the morning)
Elsevier is one of the biggest allies of the Open Access movement. They single-handedly do more to illustrate the problems than anyone else.
Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change http://bit.ly/1fsHu9P
Michel Foucault : éthique et vérité (1980-1984) http://zpr.io/gEnU
The crossword at 100 http://gu.com/p/3y8y6
Paul Thomas Anderson: An Autocritique http://zpr.io/gxvs
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA http://zpr.io/gxcK
Apologies, really need to fix those HTML entities coming out in my feed.
Enormous Tunneling Machine &#039;Bertha&#039; Blocked By &#039;The Object&#039; http://zpr.io/gxLF
From Markdown to JATS XML in one Step by @mfenner http://bit.ly/1i7RDNn
The Journal of Victorian Culture 18.4 has a whole open access section on... open access! http://bit.ly/1fLEGWb
Publication: Utopia Fading: Taxonomies, Freedom and Dissent in Open Access Publishing http://bit.ly/19XOVlt #OA
Dear "top journal": 1 year and 4 months to review is too long http://bit.ly/19XM9ws
Publication: Utopia Fading: Taxonomies, Freedom and Dissent in Open Access Publishing
I was very pleased, late last year, to have been invited by Jim Mussell to contribute to a Digital Forum in the Literature journal, the Journal of Victorian Culture, on Open Access publishing. This is certainly one of the more experimental and less praxis-orientated pieces I've written on the topic…
Dear "top journal": 1 year and 4 months to review is too long
Dear X and Y, I'm writing in a state of some frustration and disappointment to withdraw my essay from Top Journal in My Field of American Literature. I submitted the piece on the 2nd of August, 2012, now 1 year and 4 months ago. I have not received any reader reports on the article. I appreciate…
Sigil Cycle http://zpr.io/gxC2
Oh, and, on that front, @PabloK is currently distilling @amcgettigan's BIS appearance into tweets. Recommended.
My vote for most terrifying, but totally crucial, book of the year goes to @amcgettigan's The Great University Gamble. Read. It. Now.
Southampton VC says no funds can be found for staff pay increases, frozen at 1%. Then accepts pay rise of 6%. http://bit.ly/18CJaid
‘Abnormal’ Bodies on the Borders of Inclusion: Biopolitics and the Paradox of Disability Surveillance (2013) http://zpr.io/gxKU
McKellen and Stewart on Beckett and Laughter http://zpr.io/gxyQ
Publication: Review of Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets http://bit.ly/1klOeu0
Publication: Review of Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets
I have a new review of Belfiore, Eleonora, and Anna Upchurch, eds., Humanities in the Twenty-first Century: Beyond Utility and Markets (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) now published in Textual Practice. You can also read the Author Submitted Manuscript version, should you so wish.
'Men's Rights' groups report 400 fake cases of sexual violence at LA college http://google.com/producer/s/CBIw5Mqpyg4 < sickening
Madness and Superheroes (2013) http://zpr.io/gxss
Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking http://zpr.io/gxfj
The co-operative university against indenture http://zpr.io/gxHw
‘Capitalism is suspended’ – Rothschild http://zpr.io/gxHD
Written submission to BIS Select Committee http://zpr.io/gxH8
Paul Auster on the Importance of Laughter in Beckett http://zpr.io/gxnC
Undocumented Feature http://zpr.io/gxUP
Multivitamin Researchers Say &#039;Case Is Closed&#039; As Studies Find No Health Benefits http://zpr.io/gxUU
Apparently drones are maligned and have humanitarian uses. Which is why they're called "predator" & "reaper". http://gu.com/p/3ya4k
BIS Select Committee - Tuesday 17 December http://zpr.io/gXdA
Co-operative universities mailing list http://zpr.io/gXdh
EFF&#039;s Reading List: Books of 2013 http://zpr.io/gXrR
The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe http://zpr.io/gXrH
A Reluctant Subject: Portraits of Samuel Beckett http://zpr.io/gXR8
Excursions Vol. 5 No. 1 “Boundaries” http://zpr.io/gNvd
Roland Barthes at 100 (30-31 March 2015) http://zpr.io/gNvJ
Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) 2014 http://zpr.io/gNv5
NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto http://zpr.io/gNLE
Foucault, La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973. Now published http://zpr.io/gNSx
Co-operative principles in higher education? http://zpr.io/gNST
So much reading that I'm looking forward to over the break. The Flamethrowers and The Circle being at the top of my list.
From Markdown to JATS XML in one Step http://zpr.io/gNAh
Osborne before the Treasury Select Committee http://zpr.io/gNAZ
Samuel Beckett in Conversation (Rare Recording) http://zpr.io/gNAp
New article: Kathryn Hume, Attenuated Realities: Pynchon's Trajectory from V. to Inherent Vice http://bit.ly/1hPulf5
In other news, last teaching of the term is done. Phew! Now to blitz the last research bits before marking starts tomorrow.
The photos the Guardian digs out to illustrate any George Osborne piece makes my day. Especially the one of him in the bulldozer (get it?!)
“@mgmcquillan Omnishambles 2.0 Chancellor's Autumn statement on HE quickly descending into uncosted farce http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/12/higher-education-budget-multibillion-shortfall”
(I appreciate it's academics who do the reviews and cause delays, but as an editor you'd change the reviewer if you cared at that point)
Any recommendations for an OA journal that might want a piece on Roberto Bolaño?
Right, had it up to here. "Top" journal has had my article for review for a year and a 4 months. Pulling it.
Call for papers for @Excursions_J (5.1): "Boundaries" http://bit.ly/HES2pw
Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram http://zpr.io/gNU3
My students just live-tweeted audience reactions during their brilliant Facebook-stalking performance! See #offendingaudience
Don't usually approve of "humorous" blogging on Guardian, but this is actually funny (mostly as it savages Clegg): http://bit.ly/INJbDw
Willetts in Hansard – ‘RAB is now 35-40%’ http://zpr.io/gaMQ
A massively detailed (and inevitably massively flawed) history of philosophy diagram http://bit.ly/1gW78F6
New article: On the Mark? Responses to a Sting, by @jambina, @McDawg, @jennifergardy and me in JLSC [OA]. http://bit.ly/1jIfKS1
Was wondering today whether the government will seek to end the "30 year write-off" on student loans to finance the cap-lift? @amcgettigan
Suspended Sussex students reinstated - http://www.sussexstudent.com/news/index.php?page=article&news_id=274463
Most would say I'm not usually sentimental, but the end of Franzen's Freedom devastates me every time. I hate myself for it.
Exclusive – £1.7billion omission from Sale of Loans impact assessment http://zpr.io/gTVV
Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking http://zpr.io/gTVv
Sussex students have ratified official union motion to walk out tomorrow. They have also passed a motion of no-confidence in the VCEG.
Realising the Co-operative University http://zpr.io/gTcd
Co-operative universities: A bibliography http://zpr.io/gTcJ
For news on @USSU's discussion of 5 suspended students & suppression of dissent follow #sussexemm and @gabrielquotes
Very glad to see that Sussex union meeting about suppression of dissent on campus has achieved quoracy. #sussexemm
Important MT @notanna1: @HEFCE: Invitation to comment on changes to UK Performance Indicators http://bit.ly/1hHZocP
I haven't (yet?) read the Beall piece. The abstract reads as though he is denouncing OA as a leftist conspiracy.
MPs' 9% pay rise http://gu.com/p/3y2q5 < 6% over inflation. HE workers offered 1%, as per last 4 years. This is why there are strikes.
Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off http://zpr.io/gTAC
The academic ethics of strikebreaking http://zpr.io/gTAF
Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today http://zpr.io/gTA3
"Today, I wouldn't get an academic job." -- Peter Higgs http://bit.ly/18KrhhL
Samuel Beckett Working Group: Warwick 2014 http://zpr.io/gTjH
Selling loans http://zpr.io/gTjt
Controlling HE finances with no recruitment caps http://zpr.io/gTzs
Whoever thought that Site->Customization->Properties was the best place in Blackboard to put the "let students see this site" option, well.
"to threaten someone with a stick is the ultimate anti-intellectual gesture... The university is dead" http://internationaltimes.it/the-university-is-dead/
Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding http://zpr.io/gYv7
Crisis of Authority. Politics, Trust, and Truth-Telling in Freud and Foucault (2013) http://zpr.io/gYvq
Technology and co-operative practice against the neoliberal university http://zpr.io/gYvG
Group singing free Mandela at the station.
Just submitted what I hope/think are the final revisions to an article on which I've been working for a year and a half. Phew.
Stephen Hawking: NHS is Britain's finest public service and must be preserved from commercial interests http://ind.pn/18niix3
App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music http://zpr.io/gY3f
If it takes 10,000 hrs to master something (as is often claimed) & you spend 3 years on a PhD, every day for 8 hrs, you've only put in 6240.
Lisa Dwan rehearses Beckett at the Royal Court Theatre http://zpr.io/gYXh
@Lisadwan thanks for the RT - I saw your Not I last year and so looking forward to the next round in January; simply brilliant.
Christmas has arrived at @unilincoln
ExplainShell Breaks Down Long, Confusing Linux Commands http://zpr.io/gYUe
“@spitfirepilot1 Britain can no longer afford welfare state, warns Osborne: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/10487295/Autumn-Statement-2013-Britain-can-no-longer-afford-welfare-state-warns-Osborne.html” < the "unaffordable" NHS will be next
BIS hits panic button – all student support funding to EU students suspended http://zpr.io/gsrE
Those who call it selfish neglect that selfishness/individualism has led to unpaid internships and the erosion of fair pay in all areas.
If I had time I'd write a long blog post on how the HE strike is about fighting so that there might be jobs that pay fairly in the future.
Just after US Republicans announced end of racism: Specific funding cuts aimed at Bulgarians and Romanians in UK HE http://bit.ly/18ascFp
Inside Higher Ed. getting overly meta: "Blog post comparing academe to a drug gang provokes much discussion"
Foucault&#039;s Last Decade - fifth update http://zpr.io/gsKe
Michel Foucault’s 1968: Tunis, Sidi Bou Said, Paris (2013) http://zpr.io/gsKd
Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World http://zpr.io/gsAs