February 2015
Jennifer Saul on women in philosophy in phil magazine http://zpr.io/zjDz
Chapter Three: Political Critique and the University in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 http://meve.io/1wwVVXR
Discovered DavMail Gateway this morning. Brilliant if your organization uses Exchange & you want to use Thunderbird. http://meve.io/1AlLoth
Chapter Three: Political Critique and the University in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
A map, as of the 28th February 2015, of Chapter Three of the book I am slowly working on.
Object to the headline - of course it's real - but this is promising. "First biological proof that ME is real found" http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwxeqz3yA
Open access books and articles on Michel Foucault http://zpr.io/zZLB
"Our plan is fully funded, so we will increase the teaching grant universities receive by ... around £2.7 billion."
That said, Labour's plan implies the return of the non-STEM teaching grant.
Of course, it's about accounting. Getting expenditure off books in the present so it can be presented as future assets, despite write-offs.
Grim that a reduction of fees from £9k to £6k is now so resisted and contentious. Pre-1998: £0. 1998: £1k. 2004: £3k. £9k in 2012.
Great-looking CFP edited by @collinsactually: American Literature and the Transnational Marketplace. Please RT! http://meve.io/1EwQSYD
Beckett’s Bodies: Affect, Disability, Performance http://zpr.io/zZTm
Yet more on gender and citation http://zpr.io/zZnB
Ethics of a Journal's Surplus
I wrote the following letter in this week's Times Higher Education. I post it here for those who can't get past the paywall.
Editors’ Choice: History as it Can Be Played: A New Public History? http://zpr.io/zpKr
New Models of Knowledge Production. Open Access Publishing and Experimental Research Practices (Part II) http://zpr.io/zpTn
Labour’s HE funding plan – why raiding my tax break is a good idea http://zpr.io/zpYW
Ethics of a Journal’s Surplus http://meve.io/1vBOvBM
‘Cash Today’ – attempts to sell student loans http://zpr.io/zpgr
Mailbox's "ping emails back to inbox later" feature is helpful. It also gives a false sense of security in having "finished email" though.
Frankie says RELX. (Elsevier changes its name) http://meve.io/1whVHxP h/t @yvonnenobis
What David Foster Wallace Taught Paul Thomas Anderson http://zpr.io/zziY
Lectures de Michel Foucault (2014) http://zpr.io/zzYx
New Models of Knowledge Production. Open Access Publishing and Experimental Research Practices (Part I) http://zpr.io/zzqF
Software Theory – Federica Frabetti http://zpr.io/z7ev
Stories of the Past and Future http://zpr.io/z7y3
Editors’ Choice: Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures http://zpr.io/z7yw
What’s the difference between ‘game-playing’ and ‘strategizing’? More on the REF. http://zpr.io/zqKb
BIS failed to heed warnings about HE privatisation http://zpr.io/zqXE
Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons http://zpr.io/zRBe
Fees, austerity and war: understanding student vote http://zpr.io/zRBd
More @openlibhums pledged articles arrived today! Have you submitted yours? http://meve.io/1xVeh4O
And, of course, the performers are amazing.
Saw Cirque Eloize perform Cirkopolis this afternoon. A bit disappointing compared to iD in both narrative and novelty but fun nonetheless.
‘What awaits English HE after the election?’ – talk on Tuesday 24 February http://zpr.io/zR7V
Was interesting, given debate re ed vs. ad distinctions, to see ad for international recruitment agency alongside damning THE editorial.
If we subscribe to Sociological Review but then can't afford other pubs students need, that sociology at Keele benefits is small consolation
That surplus came from library budgets worldwide & funds only there on the back of libraries who couldn't afford to pay it.
Prof. quoted in that article argues it should be used for intra-disciplinary building/subsidy. This is a poor way to build activities.
The Sociological Review makes £100k-£200k profit per year for Keele. Total profits for publisher must be much more. http://meve.io/1EEwgLM
Chapter Two: Self-Canonisation, Literary-Historical Fictions and Aesthetic Critique http://meve.io/1wcxXB2
CFP: Conference: Discipline and Punish – Today (2015) http://zpr.io/zH2G
Chapter Two: Self-Canonisation, Literary-Historical Fictions and Aesthetic Critique
A map, as of the 22nd February 2015, of Chapter Two of the book I am slowly working on.
Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding http://zpr.io/zHRh
Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel http://zpr.io/zHUF
Bitterly cold this morning but nonetheless headed out to see some birds of prey, followed by a hasty warming retreat.
Reading Pynchon #8 http://zpr.io/zthT
Sharing risk on loans http://zpr.io/zgV9
HEFCE's board decisions on funding for universities and colleges for 2013-14 to 2015-16 http://meve.io/1AXO59A
The firm and corporative governmentality. From the perspective of Foucault (2014) http://zpr.io/z6iH
Wittgenstein and Physics, Cross College Oxford one day seminar http://zpr.io/z6it
Unsettling endings in English-language fiction http://zpr.io/z6ig
New experience this evening. Being asked to sign a copy of my book by @Protohedgehog. Apparently there's a photo.
Had a great evening at #BLDigital. Thanks @j_w_baker, @ernestopriego, @Stephen_Curry, @Protohedgehog, @MedievalBex & many others.
Tonight @britishlibrary, I'll speak on free beer vs. free speech and what it now means to say that information "wants" to be free.
Admission: it was v. hard not to write "don't cross the streams, it would be bad" when discussing double-dipping & decoupled revenue streams
FreeBSD-Current Random Number Generator Broken http://zpr.io/zneV
Looking forward to speaking at the A Web of Rights event @britishlibrary tomorrow w/ @josswright @jjn1 & @jimkillock http://meve.io/1Bxw5Ut
UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications http://gu.com/p/46v3h
BIS granted extra £4bn resource to cover additional loan losses http://zpr.io/zPPd
Must watch: Varafoukis outlines EU's unreasonable change of demands & why Greek government has no mandate to sign it http://meve.io/1AN2dm9
The frustration of mass emails that require a login to unsubscribe but then block you, in various ways, from logging in.
Adding a selfie stick to Doom is the ultimate mod http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwqYfavyA
The Lure of Minimalism http://zpr.io/7B77
The Pleasures of Acceleration http://zpr.io/7BRx
The Anxiety of Academia: Academics, Legitimation and Discipline in Contemporary Metafiction http://meve.io/1yFKYxi
Colin Gordon, Notes on some papers (2015) http://zpr.io/7BPR
The Anxiety of Academia: Academics, Legitimation and Discipline in Contemporary Metafiction
Since 2012, I have been slowly working on a book about contemporary metafiction. A lot of this work was done over weekends in the last year, as a break from the more practical undertakings that I do full-time in the week. The book was originally called "Metafiction After the Millennium" and was…
Wayland 1.7.0 Marks an Important Release http://zpr.io/7Vwt
Verifying myself: I am eve on Keybase.io. jO8Tk6T0HejDZUSGxY77feW_efEDWf4VKokS / http://meve.io/1zCWbig
How can Elsevier claim that its OA revenue stream is separate from subscriptions in a hybrid environment? http://meve.io/1KWhYKq
How can Elsevier claim that its OA revenue stream is separate from subscriptions in a hybrid environment?
For an open-access advocate, it's easy to pick on Elsevier. An enormous and immensely profitable publisher, it has been, in my personal view, obstructive towards the implementation of open access. Again, in my opinion, this seems to be because it fears for its revenue stream, rather than because it…
Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis: ‘If I weren’t scared, I’d be awfully dangerous’ http://gu.com/p/45npd
Harvard and MIT sued for neglecting people with disabilities in online courses - http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwu7D3viA
Sample articles screenshotted for the RG format press release don't seem to have it when I look http://meve.io/1zACuYj @IanMulvany
Vint Cerf warns of urgent digital preservation threat (fundamental inventor of the internet not just Google VP) http://meve.io/1AveP15
Yes, the UK's Education Secretary Nicky Morgan did just say that the 'true worth' of courses is future income - https://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2015/01/21/nicky-morgan-link-qualifications-to-tax-data-to-show-39-worth-39.aspx
Foucauldian Genealogies of Desire: Interest, Instinct and the Law http://zpr.io/7vpa
The Art of Programming http://zpr.io/74uq
I think these all pertain to dual function of monograph: both dissemination & academic audit. The latter conditions supply. #alpspbook
Followed some of #alpspbook today. Saw lots of economic points re: "too many books?" / "Can people publish?" / "Why do people publish?"
Argh. I have just seen a tweet talking about not *yet* having an impact factor for books.
Student finance in the devolved administrations http://zpr.io/7cmR
Stuart Elden Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 20 http://zpr.io/7cmH
Love how @nusuk is retweeting UKIP accounts. You do realise that they are totally anti-union, right? http://meve.io/1vEosu0
What's that you say? Signed copy of The Orb's Further Adventures Beyond Dark Matter? Oh, alright then.
Call For Papers: Living, Thinking, Looking – An International Conference on the writing of Siri Hustvedt http://zpr.io/7eVs
Article is here: http://meve.io/1CggK8G @kaveh1000
For example, using CSS regions to replicate pagination in HTML.
Agree that PDF is problematic as per Guardian article circulating. Solution not a "new format" though. It's styling of existing open forms.
Brilliant! @thoughtcat has digitized the booklet from the 2005 Russell Hoban convention (the "Some-Poasyum") http://meve.io/1AWtXpe
Labour, property and pedagogy: Theory and practice for co-operative higher education http://zpr.io/7eCj
Foucault That Noise: The Terror of Highbrow Mispronunciation (2015) http://zpr.io/7eYM
‘What awaits English HE after the election?’ – talk on Tuesday 24 February http://zpr.io/7e6G
Paying the bills http://zpr.io/7ePH
London Review Bookshop: Ten Ideas to Save the Book Trade - http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2015/2/ten-ideas-to-save-the-book-trade
[REMINDER] CFP: A Manifesto for Cyborgs thirty years on http://zpr.io/7i82
London Conference in Critical Thought June 26-27, 2015 http://zpr.io/7iKu
‘What Were They Expecting Anyway?’ The Workload Expectations of Undergraduates. http://zpr.io/7iKU
"Time from PhD" / "gaps in CV" are basically discriminatory hiring practices in my view. So many legit reasons http://meve.io/1uvgpyH
The art of the implausible http://zpr.io/7iEZ
In case you missed in, on Friday I wrote this: why don't we split open-access charges across a longer term? http://meve.io/1zGnPhI
Archival material on the publication of Gravity's Rainbow. Von Braun was sent a complimentary copy! - http://thomaspynchon.com/thomas-pynchon-1973-letter-to-bruce-allen-and-the-marketing-of-gravitys-rainbow/
Apollo Speeches http://zpr.io/7iqd
Parrhesia (Part 1): Foucault’s Parting Shot at Derrida (2015) http://zpr.io/7iqJ
Some might be interested to hear that all Palgrave books seem to have DOIs: 10.1057/ISBN. eg http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137405500 @ernestopriego
Stewart Lee brilliantly points out the problems of a culture minister valuing intermediary profit http://meve.io/1DRAD5E
Dr Lisa McKenzie on Class, Austerity and Academia http://zpr.io/75wh
It's not every day I say this, but I agree with Mark Kermode's review of Inherent Vice http://meve.io/1DRpmlE
Impact case study to beat: Following his research, Prof. Varoufakis became the finance minister for Greece. http://meve.io/1KCrCj8 #REF2020
Exploring Nostalgia http://zpr.io/75Hu
The Man Who Invented the Science Fiction Paperback http://zpr.io/75gV
Xavier Marco del Pont points out, in his paper on Coke in DFW, that real revolutionaries prefer Pepsi #funthingsbbk
Interesting stuff from @_edjackson on how Wallace's implied, assumed reader is a (straight) male. #funthingsbbk
Southon says the "Dave is nice" narrative is too strong #funthingsbbk
Academic DFW. Academics want DFW to be an academic! Tech/ethics/dialogue Southon basically schematises our conference prog #funthingsbbk
Disjunction between his claimed normality and his utter abnormal genius in this mode, says Southon #funthingsbbk
Literary/broadsheet DFW is nauseating hagiography says Southon. Lots of biography, always starting w/ suicide & his normality #funthingsbbk
Tumblr turns DFW into a decontextualised thirteen-year-old angsty aphorist, says Southon! #funthingsbbk
Southon has 3x Wallaces: tumblr DFW, literary DFW and academic DFW #funthingsbbk
Emma Southon now on the "multiple afterlives" of DFW. On canonization vs enjoyment. #funthingsbbk
Wallace's legacy democratised, in a certain way, by the Internet says Sangster #funthingsbbk
Sangster refs The Onion: NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace's Death http://www.theonion.com/articles/nascar-cancels-remainder-of-season-following-david,2535/ #funthingsbbk
Deep technological scepticism from Wallace, notes Sangster. Evidence in his own essays and in Max's biography. #funthingsbbk
More reception work from Matt Sangster: Wallace is specifically pre-internet. His reception is ultimately conditioned by it #funthingsbbk
Wallace & Pynchon attract invested fans in the way that others, like Franzen, don't. No Franzen listserv says @contemporaryfic #funthingsbbk
#funthingsbbk @contemporaryfic (Tony Venezia) up first, speaking on Wallace, pop culture & fan culture. Lots of history, Leavis to Adorno.
Today, I am taking a rare step away from @openlibhums to speak at a conference on David Foster Wallace. It is Saturday, after all!
Why don't we split the cost of paying an APC or Book Processing Charge over a longer term to make a transition work? http://meve.io/1zGnPhI
Financing for fee-driven gold open access http://meve.io/1zGnPhI
ICYMI, today we welcome Tufts to the @openlibhums consortium! Gold open access with no author-facing charges. http://meve.io/1yQ8hFB
LOL! Comedy, humour and satire in the literature and visual arts of the 20th and 21st centuries in Britain http://zpr.io/7Lgj
Financing for fee-driven gold open access
The most well-known, although neither the most common nor the only, way of providing gold open access to research material is through article or book processing charges (APCs/BPCs). These are problematic in some disciplines where most research work is unfunded (hint: the social sciences and the…
Job: PressForward Outreach Coordinator http://zpr.io/7kmQ
Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? Edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole http://zpr.io/7kTn
I also have a pedantic quip letter in the Times Higher this week re Inherent Vice http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/letters/duelling-divas/2018353.article
Furthermore, if an expert staff member leaves, that course can't be taught. It's not just a generic module that anyone can teach.
If you're teaching the latest research and want expertise of academics, then courses have to change in the year after advertising.
Which? have some points - unfair to change student fees after start - but I'm not convinced they understand HE as anything but a commodity.
Foucault – links to difficult-to-find short texts, and some requests for help http://zpr.io/72dG
Review: Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power (2014) - http://foucaultnews.com/2015/02/05/foucault-and-power/
A pretty great idea that had bypassed me. Much better for security purposes and can do neat deployments via git.
I read about Jekyll today and have spent my evening playing with it to unwind. Ahead of time compilation for websites.
Hurrah! More OLH library signups today ahead of our sold-out @LYRASIS webinar tomorrow.
Today is the 90th anniversary of Russell Hoban's birth. Check out #sa4qe for the festivities in which others have been participating!
Politics isn’t fair, is it? http://zpr.io/72nY
Microsoft makes CoreCLR, the .NET execution engine, open source http://meve.io/1u7ELyw
"Stories are supposed to create order out of the chaos of reality, aren’t they? Inherent Vice is the other way round" http://meve.io/1EDCb70
Research study launched to investigate why arthritis treatment fails in a third of patients http://zpr.io/7rpQ
Seams and edges: Dreams of aggregation, access & discovery in a broken world http://zpr.io/7Sdt
Great piece by @ryancordell: "How Not to Teach Digital Humanities" http://meve.io/1DxLRMP
Some national accounting basics for student loans http://zpr.io/7FQy
Narratives of Book Formation (Part II) http://zpr.io/7Fcw
Ha! New interpretation of gravity called "gravity's rainbow". http://meve.io/1zMqJEY
Labour higher education funding policy 101 http://zpr.io/7Fwm
Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis (2014) http://zpr.io/7FwM
Test Shows Big Data Text Analysis Inconsistent, Inaccurate http://zpr.io/7FZv
Foucault’s The Punitive Society – forthcoming in English in June 2015 http://zpr.io/7FZ4
"There is no reasonable ethical justification in stopping [...] mitochondrial replacement" http://meve.io/15YSI6z
Some charges for OA books seem to be calculated on an entire return up-front, with no risk sharing for print http://meve.io/1BJednh