Featured image credit: The Prime Minister's Office under a CC-BY-ND license. In their infamous post-World War II, post-holocaust tract, the Dialectic of Enlightenment , Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno set out the central premises of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. In this work they made two key and inseparable claims.

Greetings! If you've landed here you are either a reader of my blog, one of my twitter followers or, and this is probably the most exciting case, you scanned one of the QR codes that I left, printed on yellow paper, in various locations on Friday the 4th of February 2011. What's it all about?

Featured image credit: Rain Rabbit under a CC-BY-NC license. This is the first part of a collaborative writing effort initiated by @jennifermjones, @AndyCoverdale, @FlyGirlTwo and myself (@martin_eve) which aims to discuss, interrogate and critically reflect, from an immanent position, on various aspects of the postgraduate community falling under the Twitter hashtag, #PhDchat.

Image copyright the Economist. Too much of an opportunity to pass off for a quick post, the Economist recently featured a humorous take on the US map.

While browsing the EThOS Thesis collection today, I suddenly became curious as to the history, statistically speaking, of doctorates in my field of literature: studies on Thomas Pynchon. It emerges that, on record since 1978, there have been 23 doctorates awarded in the UK on, or in part concerning, the fiction of Thomas Pynchon.

Featured image credit: husky under a CC-BY-SA license. Some will tell me this is overkill, but I believe that, in 2011, we should have the option to read whatever we like on the web without ISPs, WiFi hotspot providers and their ilk able to see what we do online.

This is a re-publication of a post originally written for the Vitae blog's Digital Researcher section, archived here for preservation purposes. Image credit: leezfield under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. Much of the rubric surrounding social media is, to my mind, somewhat de-humanising.

This is an update post for my progress on Mendeley for Android. I have just committed code that provides almost working background synchronization to the device. Indeed, the strange image that you can see here is an emulator dump of the Android logcat while the synchronization procedure is running. It's probably worth, at this point, detailing a little bit of what I'm doing.

Image credit: grewlike under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text Postcards Competition – deadline extended! The arrival date for entries is now the 4 February. There is no entry fee and the competition is open to all. For full details of how to enter, see our website.

My Christmas present (I am SUCH a geek) was a lovely OCZ RevoDrive PCI-E SSD, with blistering 540mb/s read/write speeds. Very nice. However, it was not a simple install on my rig and I thought I'd share my basic tips from the experience. If you need the manual, it's on the official Abit site and there's lots of additional info at Digital Daily.

Image credit: El Waka; Licensed under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike This is a post to announce the initial draft of a mission statement and implementation plans [PDF] for my Digital Humanities project, Rockaby.