I had resisted the concept of having my own, academic, business cards for a long time. It seemed, and still does to an extent, an encroachment upon the sphere I love from the world of dehumanised business practice. However, networking is a fundamental part of academic conference attendance. I have several conferences coming up in June.

When I was in hospital the week before last, I was struck by how all-pervasive the rhetoric of "fighting" is when people are coping with illness or new disability. I'm sure that this has been covered by those in critical disability studies far better than I can put it here, but I wanted to flag it up as an area of concern. I certainly know that, for pretty much my entire life, this has been the terminology deployed.

Please find, for your delectation, licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license, my Prezi on Using Twitter for Research, a workshop I taught at the University of Sussex on the 18th May, 2011. .prezi-player { width: 750px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center;

There has been much discussion of whether the US should have captured Osama Bin Laden alive and put him on trial, as per the Nuremberg precedent set in the apprehension and subsequent judicial sentencing of Nazi World War II war criminals. I felt it was worth making a slightly more critical evaluation than some of those views already put out there about this. The Nuremberg defendants. Front row, from left to right: Hermann Göring (death;

There was a recent conversation on Twitter's excellent #phdchat hashtag revealing the angst that can be involved in getting the balance right between holding an idea back (for formal academic publication) and putting it out there. I'd like, in this post, to enumerate the pros and cons of each side, both ideologically and pragmatically.

A few days late, but this is a quick post to highlight my statements, and photograph, on the Guardian books site. The piece was to highlight events pertaining to reading/celebrating authors in public, which linked in with the Pynchon in Public Day event which I organized last weekend. The piece has been widely circulated and I'm grateful for all the exposure!

In a fascinating LA Times piece published today, it is remarked, in conversation with a close friend of Thomas Pynchon that: So why don't we? Why don't those of us for whom Pynchon is a professional, and personal, interest do this? The answer, to me, seems self explanatory, but before answering, it's worth giving a brief history of Pynchon's stance on privacy. Featured image: Pynchon's hand giving a V-Sign around the door. From the LA Times.

Attached are my lecture notes for the "Genre 2" lecture I gave at the University of Sussex (2011-05-04): Martin Paul Eve - "We've met before, haven't we?": Spatio-Temporal Distortion in David Lynch's Lost Highway. This file is released under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike license. It remains Copyright 2011 Martin Paul Eve. Featured image Copyright 1997 October Films.

A summary of the Guardian Q&A session, 'Life After a PhD' for which I was a panelist, is now available over on the Guardian Higher Education Network. Of particular interest, in my view, is Tennie Videler's reference to ASHPIT; certainly a lead I am hoping to follow up. Keep your eyes peeled for their third policy day. I'm also quite amused that my aside on Wittgenstein made it into the summary;

Vanity post alert! I have just been told that my achievement of Associate of the Higher Education Academy has been featured in Sussex's Teaching and Education department's publication, RUSTLE ("Really Useful Stuff on Teaching, Learning Etc."). This is, obviously, only the start along the long certificate-strewn pathway to full-time teaching in higher education, but it's certainly a good initial foray.

If, like myself, you had travelled to The Barbican last night, you would have seen two men, a father and son, on a dazzlingly white, clinical set, a gigantic face of Jesus projected onto the screen behind them. The face shimmers. It's impossible to look at, every time it draws your focus, the area under scrutiny seems to disappear, only for a new area to command attention.