My review of Theophilius Savvas' American Postmodern Fiction and the Past is now out in Literature and History , 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108. As the DOI link seems to be broken for now, it's also available via ingentaconnect. Update: following email confirmation from Ryan Sweet at Literature & History, I can confirm that I am allowed to post the full text pre-print.
If you own an HP Photosmart C6300 series and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, you may have noticed that you are unable to set the scan resolution (DPI) in any of your programs. gscan2pdf has the scan resolution dropdown menu greyed out and you will be unable to get xsane to present you with a list of resolutions. The answer is that the models.dat shipped with hplip versions under 3.12.10 contains an error.
It is my pleasure to announce, with both great excitement and the inevitable slight sadness, that as of January 2013, I will be leaving the University of Sussex (the inevitable slight sadness) to take a permanent position as a Lecturer in Literature at the University of Lincoln (the great excitement!) I have had several excellent years at Sussex, where I started my Ph.D. in 2009, and have been treated extremely well throughout;
Earlier this week I participated in a small reading group on Adorno's "The Essay as Form" and there was one particularly good sentence from this piece that I thought worth sharing in the light of that discussion as it forms a perfect examples of Adorno's model of the dialectical sentence.
Software to roll-your-own Open Access journal are now fairly easy to get hold of. OJS is available from the Public Knowledge Project as Free Open Source Software, Annotum builds on top of Wordpress and there are forthcoming projects such as Faculty that also broaden the field.
This post is written in response to a question by the ace Bernie Folan, from Sage publishers, who asked whether ORCID has the potential to disrupt, or conversely endorse, the problems in publication driven by accreditation structures. Here's a few of my hastily assembled, initial thoughts... First off, for those who don't know, ORCID is an identifier system for scientists and scholars.
A teenager has been arrested for posting a picture of a burnt remembrance poppy. Nick Griffin walks free despite tweeting the address of a gay couple who won their appeal against discrimination advocating a "British justice squad" who should "show them a bit of drama". Free speech assumes the agency of the speaker, but the justice system presumes the opposite for the listener.
In the past few weeks I've had several peer review requests and it has always struck me that it is far too easy to come across as a heartless bastard when blind reviewing work. That's why I have decided to always be kind in my reviews, even when offering the harshest of criticism.
A trip down the Yodel depot this morning yielded my copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die in which I have a review of Marukami's flawed masterpiece, 1Q84 . The book itself is a lovely object and I'd encourage everybody to have a copy, even if, obviously, the project is doomed to exclude many deserving works.
Frequent readers may recall that I had implemented CLOCKSS support in OJS. I'm sad to say that the original commit was flawed and it was decided that the best thing to do was to revert it, the reason being that there was no selective option to turn off the CLOCKSS manifest. Anyway, after extensive work, I've re-done the patch so that OJS has fully customizable CLOCKSS support that can be enabled and disabled independently from LOCKSS.
23rd March 2013 This one-day symposium hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London aims to bring together postgraduates and academics to explore how the issues of feminism, influence and inheritance animate or problematize their work and practice in the field of literary study.