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Monday, January 11th, 2010

“For [the theoreticians of photography] undertook nothing less than to legitimize the photographer before the very tribunal he was in the process of overturning.” -Benjamin, Little History of Photography
I want to explicate some of the issues I raised in the last post, address some of the comments, walk back my position on at least one [...]


The MLA, @briancroxall, and the non-rise of the Digital Humanities

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Two Things about the MLA conference I want to connect here:
1. Clearly one of the themes that has developed in the MLA post-mortem has been the rise of social media and the influence of technology at the conference. Both The Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed noticed the prominence of Twitter at the convention, or the [...]


Post MLA Thoughts-Part 1 The Jobmarket

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

For those who follow my account on twitter you already no doubt know that between Christmas and New Year’s Eve I was in San Francisco at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association. Those who read this blog also know that I am critical of organizations and institutions (yes almost all of them), especially [...]