2016-02-26 21:10
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2014-02-04 21:51
The next phase in building my prototype digital edition of a Little Gidding Harmony has led me into document layout analysis and digitization processes. As I move from research to writing, I… Read More
2013-11-19 21:43
I've been working on a prototype of a digital facsimile "edition" of the earliest extant Little Gidding Harmony. (If you don't know what a Little Gidding Harmony is, see this FAQ I wrote a f… Read More
2013-11-01 17:03
Earlier this month, punctum books released my project Gaffe/Stutter on its Dead Letter Office imprint, edited by the inimitable Eileen Joy. Taking its name from the US Postal Service's… Read More
2013-10-04 20:48
The following are some dispersed reflections on three literary scenes that've been bouncing about my skull lately. This post is an attempt to verbalize their collisions. I don't have an… Read More
2013-09-10 15:32
On the roll-out of DHthis, a new crowdsourced publishing platform based on the Slashdot model:1) The conversation about developing a kind of Slashdot for digital humanities went on in "publi… Read More
2013-08-26 15:55
While taking Terry Belanger's course on book illustration processes at the Rare Book School this summer, I became enchanted with chromoxylography: the printing process in which a color image… Read More
2013-08-06 19:26
The wonderful Vim Pasupathi recently posted on Twitter a photo of a lovely little embroidered portrait, held at UCLA's Clark Library:[Embroidered portrait at UCLA's Clark Library. Image… Read More
2013-08-06 15:43
The wonderful Vim Pasupathi recently posted on Twitter a photo of a lovely little embroidered portrait, held at UCLA's Clark Library:[Embroidered portrait at UCLA's Clark Library. Image… Read More
2013-05-09 00:44
What I am advancing is a media-critical antiquarianism. There has always been a double bind in antiquarian data processing between distance and empathy, resulting from the gap between the ph… Read More
2013-04-19 17:17
[The following is cross-posted from the Folger Shakespeare Library's blog, The Collation. Thanks to Sarah Werner for including it, and for her help with formatting. If yo… Read More
2013-03-15 00:03
As was announced last week on the Houghton Library's blog, the Houghton's Little Gidding Harmony has been digitized. It was done with money I was granted by the Episcopal Women's History Pro… Read More
2013-01-26 00:44
Today was 2013's first meeting -- I should say reunion, since I've been out of town for several months now, and the two people I work with, Mary Caton Lingold and Darren Mueller, are no… Read More
2013-01-25 23:22
Today was 2013's first meeting -- I should say reunion, since I've been out of town for several months now, and the two people I work with, Mary Caton Lingold and Darren Mueller, are no… Read More
2013-01-18 16:58
Below is the text of a talk I gave this week at the Research and Innovation Institute of Centre Pompidou in Paris. Thanks to Alexandre Monnin for inviting me to the seminar, and to… Read More
2012-12-18 22:35
I was at the Wellcome Library in London this afternoon, spending time with Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Verna (catalogue entry here), a very large book of etchings related to… Read More
2012-11-12 01:54
From the Folger Shakespeare Library.[H]e took out a Box out of his pocket, wherein was that picture enclosed, which he ever carried about him, though it were of a pretty bigness. ... Me… Read More
2012-11-12 01:54
From the Folger Shakespeare Library.[H]e took out a Box out of his pocket, wherein was that picture enclosed, which he ever carried about him, though it were of a pretty bigness. ... Me… Read More
2012-11-10 22:43
The key is straightening the route into a big line, flipping it on its side and drawing it like a scroll.John Ogilby, Britannia (vol. 1) (London, 1675). From the Folger Shakespeare Library.V… Read More
2012-11-08 18:04
As I've mentioned on Twitter, I've started using Pinterest to collect images that relate to current or future research on early modern material culture. One of my favorite boards to pin has… Read More
2012-09-17 19:19
Inventive visual design and typography have made Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy a canonical favorite among all sorts of "material book" types, with the black page after Yorick's death … Read More
2012-09-17 19:17
Inventive visual design and typography have made Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy a canonical favorite among all sorts of "material book" types, with the black page after Yorick's death … Read More
2012-08-27 23:52
In response to several recent comments on the SHARP listserv regarding book-scented perfumes , Ellen Garvey posted a link to Tan Lin's screening/discussion, "Powerpoint and th… Read More
2012-08-27 23:49
(This post and the one before it are companion pieces about two related projects I've finished. I've been sadly dilatory in writing about these projects but am happy to share, finally, a bit… Read More
2012-08-27 23:49
(This post and the next are companion pieces about two related projects I've finished. I've been sadly dilatory in writing about these projects but am happy to share, finally, a bit about my… Read More
2012-08-27 23:39
In response to several recent comments on the SHARP listserv regarding book-scented perfumes , Ellen Garvey posted a link to Tan Lin's screening/discussion, "Powerpoint and th… Read More
2012-08-23 20:46
(This post and the one before it are companion pieces about two related projects I've finished. I've been sadly dilatory in writing about these projects but am happy to share, finally, a bit… Read More
2012-08-22 20:58
(This post and the next are companion pieces about two related projects I've finished. I've been sadly dilatory in writing about these projects but am happy to share, finally, a bit about my… Read More
2012-04-11 17:09
We were curious to know how it happened that many of the outward branches of those trees came to be broken off in that solitary place, and were informed that the bears are so discreet as not… Read More
2012-01-26 15:46
Posed post practitioners been bring be up by piece pattern!Publication observes Presbyterian, complained being Episcopalian bishops between Bishops. Presbyters both, both prominent "b" "p" p… Read More
2012-01-25 06:19
Posed post practitioners been bring be up by piece pattern!Publication observes Presbyterian, complained being Episcopalian bishops between Bishops. Presbyters both, both prominent "b" "p" p… Read More
2012-01-24 17:28
"Many Elizabethan mathematical books had instruments that could be assembled from paper cutouts on their pages. Thomas Hood took these pedagogical examples to heart and in 1597 constructed a… Read More
2012-01-17 15:37
I'm teaching Writing 20 this semester, Duke's freshman composition course and the only course required of all Duke undergrads.Enrollment for each course is capped firmly at 12, so dozens of… Read More
2011-12-03 17:40
ANTIBOOKCLUB, a new publishing (ad)venture out of Chicago, released its first book this fall, A Brief History of Authoterrorism. It's a sometimes funny, sometimes odd, always delightful anth… Read More
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