The Networked Scholar, slides by Alfred Hermida →
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Worldviews conference, Toronto, June 16 2011.
June 2011
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Architectural Literature, Literary Architecture, by Jonathan Gray →
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Building Borges’s Library of Babel…
Two British journalism projects win Knight News Challenge funding | Journalism.co.uk →
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Data journalism platform ScraperWiki and the Open Knowledge Foundation were two of 16 winners in the international contest, which funds digital news experiments which use technology to inform and engage communities.
Democratization of Coverage: UVenus [slides] →
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Hey! there’s a bloke there! via @mary_churchill #loveHE
Sue Thomas - Virtual Spaces and Online Identities →
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Includes audio & slides. #dh11
Medical Case-Studies on Renaissance Melancholy. →
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Awesomeness via @radusuciu #comicsmedicine #comicsedu
“I think one of our big strengths is that many of our books are art objects in and of themselves. And many people, not everybody, but many people want to have that object and don’t necessarily want to read it as a download or on a Kindle or Nook or iPad. I think that’s probably helped us sustain our sales, the fact that the books are beautifully designed and great to actually hold in your hands. I think we have that advantage over, say, a prose novel.”
—Fantagraphics’ Gary Groth Discusses the State of Comics - Comic Book Resources
“Doing several things at once has been a way of remaining unemployed even in the midst of constant, inescapable unemployment. Writing, too, can be a form of unemployment within employment, and so is closer than ever to art.”
—John Kelsey, “Preface”, Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art (Sternberg Press, 2010:8).
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One) - NYTimes.com →
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We said, “Where’s electronic mail? That would be so cool.” And they said, “Oh, there’s no time to write that. It’s not important.” And we said, “Well, can we write it?” And we did. And then it became part of the system.
“Digital first, from a business perspective, means driving the strategy to a digital future, no longer depending on the print crutch.”
—Jeff Jarvis on the Guardian’s article and the future of print « BuzzMachine.
Ulysses "Seen": a chat with Robert Berry | The Comics Grid | Ernesto Priego →
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Joyce and Eliot […] knew that “the book” wasn’t dead, it just wasn’t “simply the same book” any longer.
Resolution [Final Edits Sonidos en el Espacio Mix]
“I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing […] the emotional reaction is all that matters.
“As long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood.”
-John Coltrane
To celebrate I finally finished something (I hope), I recorded some of my favourite DJing tunes from my vinyl collection.
All sources are vinyl records. Buy vinyl; support independent artists.
If you know what this is you know what this is… Respect, JC/SR/KDJ/MM/JP
As usual, with love for the Moooooose.
Issue 1 | June 2011 Selected Papers from the 2008 and 2009 TEI Conferences →
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Guest Editors: Kevin Hawkins, Malte Rehbein, and Syd Bauman.
“The history of culture is in part the story of a protracted struggle for dominance between pictorial and linguistic signs, each claiming for itself certain proprietary rights on a “nature” to which only it has access. At some moments this struggle seems to settle into a relationship for free exchange along open borders; at other times (as in Lessing’s Laocoon) the borders are closed and a separate peace is declared. Among the most interesting and complex versions of this struggle is what might be called the relationship of subversion, in which language or imagery looks into its own heart and finds lurking there its opposite number.”
—W.J.T. Mitchell, “Image and Word”, Iconology (Chicago and London: 1986) p. 43
I.N.J. Culbard's Tools of the Trade | The Comics Grid | →
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A brief interview I conducted with I.N.J. Culbard.
“It is not sufficient to have the whole world at one’s disposal - the very infinitude of possibilities cancels out possibilities, as it were, until limitations are discovered.”
—Roger Sessions, “Problems and Issues Facing the Composer Today”, Problems of Modern Music, Pit Lang (ed), New York: Norton (1962:31). As quoted by Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art, Indianapolis: Hackett (1976:127).
“The overriding desire of most children is to get at and see the soul of their toys.”
—Charles Baudelaire, “A Philosophy of Toys”, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, trans. Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon Press, 1964), 202-3.
Ten years ago: Henry Jenkins: "Convergence? I Diverge." [PDF] →
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No single medium is going to win the battle for our ears and eyeballs. And when will we get all of our media funnelled to us through one box? Never.
“There are in fact several reasons, apart from purely autobiographical ones, why I am writing about comics. I have been bothered for a long time that it is nigh on impossible to see the original materials being analysed in most critical studies. Too many critics expect to take their descriptions on faith. Often they tell us their conclusion with only fragmentary quotations. When studying pieces of popular culture, very often they do not bother to note their sources. No dates, no edition numbers. It doesn’t seem to matter, since their description must be accepted. This is not a matter to be taken lightly. The way critics look at their materials is already conditioned by their theories of ideology and influence. If we want to question those theories, it is vitally important to be able to re-view those original materials.”
—Martin Barker (1989), “Thinking About Ideology and Comics”, in Comics: Power, Ideology and the Critics. Manchester and New York, page 5.
St. Jerome (Schr. 1551m) | Anonymous, German, 15th century | →
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