As before, I will present here a brief rundown of the conference panels I attended with comments as they occurred to me! Obviously, in such reductive accounts, I do great damage to the content of the papers, but I do so in the hope that it will be of interest. If I have misunderstood any authors, I will, of course, be happy to make corrections. Julia Stetler (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Julia's paper was on William F.
As with my previous posts on International Pynchon Week 2010, I thought I would try to take a little time on each day of this conference to write a few words with some thoughts. Symbiosis is a conference designed to study Anglo-American relations, be that trans-atlantic, post-national, in literature and in history. Having held previous events in London, Boston and (I believe) Edinburgh, this year's conference takes place in Glasgow.
After the success of the piece that I co-wrote with Jennifer M. Jones for The Guardian last week, I have had several requests to read the original version from which the final published version was excerpted. When the press writes disparagingly of dangerous university radicalisation, it should be remembered that radicalism sits among the core functions of the University.
The Excursions editorial board are pleased to announce the launch of Excursions , Volume 2, Issue 1: Virus (2011). Issue: Virus See also: Archive / CFP Featured image copyright Luke Jerram, 2011. Used with permission. Excursions, Vol. 2, Issue 1: Virus (2011) was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on June 21, 2011.
Call for Papers ‘States of Emergence, States of Emergency’ Deadline for articles: 15th August 2011 Benjamin’s remarks on states of emergency have been fundamental to an understanding of political life which considers the roles played by threat, danger and fear in processes of political control.
An announcement that I will be speaking at the "Symbiosis" conference at the University of Glasgow on the 24th of June giving a paper entitled "Whose Line is it Anyway? Geographical specificity of Enlightenment in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon". Featured image by jbachman01 under a CC-BY-ND license. Conference paper: Geo-specificity of Enlightenment in Mason &
A quick post to mark the publication, co-authored with Jennifer M Jones, of "Taking Back the University"; a piece that gives a quick rundown of radical alternative re-imaginings of the University over the past year. The piece was written collaboratively in Google Documents originally under the title "Angry Young Academics", with each of us blasting down thoughts before restructuring.
Details of an upcoming researcher workshop I am running on the 28th of June, from 2-4pm at the University of Sussex: For more information and book, please visit the events page. Featured image credit: leezfield under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. Upcoming Workshop: Inbox zero and tech-task lists: getting things done was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on June 14, 2011.
As seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition, my friend Duncan came up with a Pynchon themed T-Shirt, and Against the Day quoting card for my birthday. Here's the result! More Pynchonalia was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on June 13, 2011.
Here's a quick 'n' easy version of another post that uses the rpm instead of the extracting to opt.
I saw yesterday that Twitter user WhelanWrites was asking for a basic rundown of some introductory Pynchon criticism. Rather than reply, I thought I'd put a few items up here so that they are better preserved for posterity. The request was that "Something biographical would be great... And something relating to gravity's rainbow specifically!", so I'll do my best on that front.