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September 15 2022, 2:33am | Comments
Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments
Bookmark How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures | Aeon…
A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books
Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark The Materiality of Research: ‘On the Materiality of Writing in Academia or…
In this feature essay, Ninna Meier reflects on the materiality of the writing – and re-writing – process in academic research.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark In the Name of Humanity | Limn
The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark The Block is the Successor to The Book: A Publishing Proposal
In this text, we introduce Txtblock, a decentralized tool for publishing and distribution of digital text in a format called the block—a squarely defined, eternally immutable unit of information. The block…

November 21 2015, 8:45am | Comments
Bookmark How Google is Destroying the Act of Reading – Tablet Magazine
I have come to my favorite café (which has very fast Wi-Fi) and ordered a coffee.

October 11 2014, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark The novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books |…
If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

May 2 2014, 9:56am | Comments
Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute
Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Projects Nicolas Cage is one of the most versatile actors of all time

April 28 2013, 7:53am | Comments
GIFbites Nightmares Submitted by Nathan Altice | Featuring music by...

December 28 2012, 2:55am | Comments
Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI, in 140 character chunks; Sun Tzu's Art of War, in its entirety; the chapter headings…

October 27 2012, 9:15am | Comments
Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation
Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and title,…

May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments
Bookmark 'Will reading in the digital era erode our ability to understand the…
Quite the opposite, so long as we grasp the fresh routes to knowledge, and connection, that technological change brings, says Nick Harkaway. These are old, old fears in a new form.…

May 17 2012, 3:38am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?

March 4 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
E-books Can't Burn

February 16 2012, 3:50pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Worth a new Mass?

December 8 2011, 7:06am | Comments
Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas
This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…
For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments
Bookmark How to survive the age of distraction
The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book.…

June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and…
APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing…

June 20 2011, 9:16am | Comments
Bookmark Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph. But…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why we need a new…
Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend to…

June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Technology Of Writing
Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments
Bookmark The Font of the Hand
JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude…

March 24 2011, 5:23pm | Comments
Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell
Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments
Portfolio Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium”

February 16 2011, 7:39am | Comments

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