I’ve been enjoying my travel immensely, and walking around Berlin today I thought perhaps I should blog more about my trips various places, since that’s probably more interesting than some of the stuff I do write about. For instance, today I wandered off the street and into a gallery only to discover that they were …
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Announcing a new book series on Duke University Press! Now, please help us name it.
Lisa Gitelman and I will be editing a new book series on Duke University Press. As Lisa put it, we “share a taste in books” and we thought it would be a good place to support empirically rich, theoretically engaged work on media, technologies and culture. And yes, of course it will also be a …
News About Squirrels
Since Jeff Sconce has abandoned the all important rodent news beat, it is my duty to alert you to this important and controversial rodent-related Wikipedia page. I also really enjoy the deletion discussion. The article is already sourced to the New York Times, Washington Post, Toronto Sun, and the St. Louis and Pittsburgh and Seattle …
A step toward improving peer reviews: sign them
Read the post over at Antenna, where Jonathan Gray has been running a work/school/life series.
Born in Word vs. “Born Digital”
There’s a lot of talk in Digital Humanities about “born digital” content. But what we are really talking about at this point is different kinds of digital, and the politics of competing standards. My project for this institute is to create a digital companion for my mp3 book. The purpose of the site is to …
Sometimes when you think you see a zebra in an unlikely place, it’s actually a zebra
Slow blogging the week before the end of the world. Actually, we were away for a few days, plus I’m cooking up some stuff. We went down to the wine region in Central California — Paso Robles. Carrie got to visit and taste at her favorite winery — which is also beautiful — and we …
A lesson for the humanities from new music
This month’s issue of The Wire has a nice article on the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (including a wonderful description of the dilapidated condition of the original equipment). It was the first thing I’d read about Milton Babbitt in a long time, which led me to go find his infamous 1958 essay “Who Cares if …
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