As quite a few of you know, my dissertation is a comparative analysis of authorship in Wikipedia and the Chambers Cyclopaedia. (I don’t write much about it here, but it’s been proceeding along for lo these many months, and I’m … Continue reading
I’d be veeeerrry interested in the University of Edinburgh’s postgraduate program in Material Cultures and the History of the Book, which starts this fall. It sounds like a pretty hardcore one-year program: a central course in Cultures of the Book, … Continue reading
It’s been awhile since the last one of these, eh? A lot of this is from SHARP-L, but a couple come from other sources that I (sadly) forgot to note when I filed them. Bembo’s Zoo, a very stylish abecedarium … Continue reading
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland in now available for the bargain price of $180 per volume on Amazon. (Ahem.) It sounds fascinating, though, especially for those of us who practice a certain slant of book history. … Continue reading
The Book Arts Web (via futureofthebook.com) Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie Animated da Vinci Illustrations Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Your Books by Adrian Johns Not a book: The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek computer: Scientists have finally demystified … Continue reading
One of several by Anagram Bookshop What people said about books in 1498. Ancient Greek curse tablets What we talk about when we talk about books ̶Back around aught-six, some folks had this crazy idea called ‘net neutrality…’ A short … Continue reading
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Bookish links, some of which have been composting for awhile: The title is shamelessly stolen from this fantastic blog, which I immediately blogrolled upon discovery. (via scribblingwoman. Several of these might have come from her awhile back, now that I … Continue reading
The annual conference for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing will be here at UMN next year! I’m excited, since my diss work has become quite involved with the history of the encyclopedia. That, and one … Continue reading
Particularly for Miss Frizzy: SHAVED: When the binder has trimmed off the whole margin of a leaf and touched ink, but has not actually cut off more than the outer edge of any printed letters, the result is indicated by … Continue reading
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
