Okay, if anybody knows what it is that my calendar says I’m “busy” with on November 28, do let me know.
12 October 2018, 08:54
I’m delighted to be in Minneapolis today and tomorrow for the Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence, sponsored by the Moving Image & Media Studies Graduate Group.
5 October 2018, 18:04
I am sliding back and forth between incandescent take-to-the-streets rage and bleak take-to-my-bed despair.
28 September 2018, 10:21
I am attempting to proofread this thing about generosity and the public good today, but there’s something interfering with my concentration. Call it my apoplectic levels of rage. Yesterday was despair-inducing, but like @wynkenhimself, I’ve been sent utterly over the edge by the spinelessness of those who believe her and yet will vote for him anyway.
I fear it will not be the last time I say this: a shocking percentage of men in this country genuinely do not believe that women are full-fledged human beings. And we appear to be putting (another) one of them on the highest court in the land.
20 September 2018, 14:37
“What motivates otherwise ordinary people to abandon all pretense of mercy when faced with the abject need for it?” A story that is both horrifying, and horrifyingly familiar. (Heads-up: sexual violence.)
In Production
I sat down this afternoon to force myself to write a blog post, as I haven’t been doing much in the way of writing of late, and am feeling a bit cramped because of it.
Or perhaps it’s more fair to say that I haven’t been doing much in the way of writing of the new-project kind of late, because I have in fact been writing non-stop: grant proposals, letters of recommendation, and email email email. None of that ever actually feels as though it counts, though, and I feel not-so-vaguely guilty whenever I check off the daily writing item in my to-do app and the writing has been of a predominantly administrative nature.
But what I have been working on is the wrap-up of my last project, which never feels quite like it ought to count, either, and yet requires revisiting the manuscript with just as much intensity as the actual writing of it demanded. I spent a week with the copy edits, wrestling through what I’d actually meant to say and how it got read (very generously, I’m happy to say) and making sure that I was happy with where things wound up.
The next stage of my involvement with the project will be the final proofread, and then… the anxious awaiting of this gorgeous thing, whose 2-dimensional version landed in my inbox just as I was pondering what to write about.
I’m beyond happy about this, and hope you will be too. Coming to a bookstore near you in 2019.
12 September 2018, 16:06
“Thundering Manichean dumbassery” is among the best phrases I have read in recent days.
4 September 2018, 06:32
On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality.
2 September 2018, 11:48
I have just finished reviewing the copy edits on a forthcoming project and am moved to send a shout-out to the awesome copy editors of the world. It can be painful at moments to see the flaws in what you wrote laid bare, but the process inevitably makes the work better.
That having been said: I tried mightily to submit to house style, but I will never be a Chicago convert. One guess which style they’ll have to pry out of my cold, dead hands…
30 August 2018, 11:33
Last year, just about this time, Humanities Commons (@humcommons) received its 10,000th member. This morning, we hit 15,000. Come join this growing community and share your work with the world!
