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Camera Geologica
In Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke UP, 2024) Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography.
Darren Wershler et al,, "The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
A hybrid lab functions in the space between institutions and infrastructure, creating new opportunities for understanding their interconnection. However, their legitimacy remains fuzzy without formal and methodological critique. The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies (U of Minnesota Press, 2021) proposes the "extended lab model" to describe the relationship of various facets of a lab and uses a wide range of historical and contemporary case studies.
History without Chronology
In this interview, we talk with Stefan Tanaka, professor emeritus of UCSD and a specialist in modern Japanese history.
Recognise: Kikelomo
Credit: David Nana Opoku Ansah “Everyone asks me, ‘What kind of music do you play?’” says DJ, presenter, producer and radio station co-founder Kikelomo. “If you can dance to it, I’m sure I’m gonna play it. My USB has literally everything on it. If you come to one of my sets, you won’t really know what to expect in terms of sound.
Sea Glass Shadows
One day, knowing how much you love the beach and cats, our mom will find a book that happens to feature both and bring it home to read to you. She’ll read Brinton Turkle’s Do Not Open to you so much that she’ll recite the first few pages of it automatically, autonomically, when the adult version of you calls to ask if she still has this book. (Of course she does.
The People's Cloud: Manifesting Community and Eco-led Digital Spaces
This piece has been recorded by Sarah Kearns as an audio podcast. Listen below or read the transcript. Transcript We were told that the Internet would “dematerialize” society and decrease energy use. Instead, the opposite is true: the internet has quickly become one of the most carbon-intensive information processing systems. The solution isn’t as simple as relying less on the internet or publishing and creating less digital content. Having information available from around the world is important.
Eleanor Lerman, "Watkins Glen" (Mayapple Press, 2021)
Watkins Glen (Mayapple Press, 2021) is the story of Susan -- a woman in her sixties -- who finds herself taking care of her estranged older brother Mark, who has Alzheimer's. They are the children of a father who worked in his brothers' upholstery factory for most of the year but in the summers; escaped with his family to Watkins Glen; where he was the best outlaw drag racer in a town that primarily caters to high-end road racing.
The NERL Playbook
key-enterThis Pub is a Supplement to Saying the Quiet Part Loud: Making incremental and big gains in library licensing agreements by Lindsay Cronk, Maridath Wilson, Liz Mengel, and Sarah Kearns Description 🎧 A conversation with some of the folks behind the NERL Playbook and the Backflip deal with Elsevier (1 hour with transcript) What if we told you that academic resource negotiations didn’t have to feel like the most boring yet high stakes game of Rock Em, Sock Em Robots you ever played?
Saying the Quiet Part Loud: Making incremental and big gains in library licensing agreements
key-enterThis Pub is a Comment on The NERL Playbook Description A project-based approach to co-creating negotiations with publishers and libraries In this podcast, we chat with NERL’s Lindsay Cronk, Maridath Wilson, and Liz Mengel about the recent Backflip open access pilot deal with Elsevier. The first of it’s kind, it aims to gain retroactive access to older publications, not just new ones in a sort of rent-to-own model.
Nita Sweeney, "Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My…
Nita Sweeney’s struggle with bipolar disorder and grief had overtaken her life when she decided to take her beloved dog and try running, even though she doubted she could make it around the block.
How states are turning TikTok influencers into propaganda machines
â¬…ï¸ Left Arrow*ï¸âƒ£ Asteriskâ StarOption Slidersâœ‰ï¸ MailExit via TikTok (@lyutaya.ira and @exterlylove) There’s growing evidence that Russia, China, and the US are using social media influencers’ power for political gain 5April 2022 If you look up #RussianLivesMatter on TikTok, you’ll see that the tag currently sits at 19.2 million views. The more widely used #RLM has racked up 31.2 million.
Gleb Tsipursky, "The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome…
Gleb Tsipursky Mar 31, 2022 How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships 2020 We all want positive, healthy, and genuine relationships whether it's with family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to get stuck in how we see and relate to certain people, which can limit or even sabotage our relationships.
What will sex look like in the metaverse?
4February 2022 TextSarah KearnsIllustrationMarianne Wilson The metaverse is cumming, with the help of new sex tech 4February 2022 TextSarah KearnsIllustrationMarianne Wilson In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg emerged from the depths of scandal armed with a keynote of his plans to build out the metaverse. Over the course of 77 minutes and a colourful CGI montage, the tech founder described a virtual reality-based network of 3D online worlds.
Matthew C. Kruger, "What The Living Know: A Novel of Suicide and…
Now that science has granted eternal life and youth to all, the world is a place of endless opportunity to live out one's dreams and fulfill one's desires. With death unnecessary, it becomes optional and suicide is celebrated when chosen. However the main character, 10,000 year old Warren, has fought off the urge to die but begins to contemplate making this choice for himself. Matthew C.
Useful Accessible Data: Big Shifts in Data Collaboration
We invite contributions to a series that explores how data generation and curation can be both accessible and useful within and amongst communities. We ask that abstracts of 300 words or fewer be submitted by February 7, 2021 (please see key details below). As things — technology, politics, economics, etc. — change, we increasingly find that we need to update how we interact and exchange knowledge. How we understand that change and the ways we respond to it are increasingly driven by data.
Janneke Adema, "Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities" (MIT…
Janneke Adema Dec 22, 2021 Experiments in the Posthumanities MIT Press 2021 In Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021), Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project -- not as linear, bound and fixed, but as fluid, remixed, and liquid, a space for experimentation.
#CommonplaceWrapped · Commonplace
It’s 2021 — indeed, a sneeze away from 2022 at this point — and if at least one of your Slack teams or Discord chats doesn’t have a #meme channel and/or a #music channel, then it’s your moral imperative to make one. Sure, you make think that memes are silly, that they’re a tacky way for millennials to cope with the world by riffing obscure-yet-somehow-mainstream references, that they’re a facet of current times you’d be happy to never see again. But memes are nothing new.
Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, "Alien Listening: Voyager's…
In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space, and it remains the only human-made object to have left the solar system. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts contained world music and sounds of Earth to represent humanity to any extraterrestrial civilizations. Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth (Zone Books, 2021) ask big questions: Can music live up to its reputation as the universal language in communications with the unknown?
More to Open than Access
In this episode, we'll be chatting with Peter Murray-Rust, a chemist at the University of Cambridge, about open beyond just access, and the challenges of making changes that will have a global impact on Scholarly Communications. Hope you enjoy. SK: So maybe we could start off with you introducing yourself a little bit more. And also, in addition to sort of why and how you got into, and arguably contributed to, so much of the beginnings of the open access movement. PMR: Okay. I'm Peter, Murray-Rust.
TikTok’s Chrissy Chlapecka is redefining the bimbo for Gen Z
While she’s ostensibly the most popular creator on BimboTok, Chrissy Chlapecka didn’t refer to herself as a bimbo until her TikTok followers did. To be fair, commenters weren’t shaming her; they were embracing her.
Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History…
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization (Princeton University Press, 2021) traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today.
Integrating pluralism
Hello and welcome to the Commonplace Podcast. In this episode, Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein describe the process of community review for their book, Data Feminism. We end up discussing how and where multiple voices can constructively improve a piece of work, and how their thinking, research, and writing practices have shifted since.
Business of Knowing · Commonplace
Infrastructures are more than the tools we use, they are a part of the process and we trust them to function properly.
William Duffy, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production…
In Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing (Utah State UP, 2021), William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the growing interest in collaboration within digital and materialist rhetoric to demonstrate that not only do the theory, pedagogy, and practice of collaboration need more study but there is also much to be learned from the doing of collaboration.
Adam Crymble, "Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the…
The digital age has touched and changed pretty much everything, even altering how historical research is practiced. In his new book Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2021), Adam Crymble makes a meta-historical account of how digital and technological advances have impacted historical research, collection management, education, and communication.
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "Objectivity" (Zone Books, 2010)
Turns out "objectivity" has a not-so clear-cut definition across time. In this podcast, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison to discuss their work, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2010). This work traces the historical and cultural developments of the word “objective” as it acquired different meanings and associated practices.
TikTok’s Chrissy Chlapecka Is Redefining the Bimbo for Gen Z
While she’s ostensibly the most popular creator on BimboTok, Chrissy Chlapecka didn’t refer to herself as a bimbo until her TikTok followers did. To be fair, commenters weren’t shaming her; they were embracing her.
Sustainability monitored through stretchable sensors
Quantifying anthropogenic pollution and monitoring how it fouls our air and our waterways is critically important for our ability to sustainably manage our natural ecosystems. One emerging helpful technology in recent years have been new sensors that use flexible and stretchable materials to measure the physical environment.
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
by Sarah Kearns | A social scientist known for his study of information networks and relationships has taken a hard look at so-called “fake news” and concluded that it is not as widespread as some people believe. In a pre-recorded talk delivered online to journalists attending ScienceWriters2020 Oct. 19–23, Duncan Watts said his research suggests that misinformation and public polarization are bigger contributors to public opinion than outright fabricated news.
Do you actually own your DNA?
Property rights get messy when DNA is involved. Filed Under Data, Diseases & Genetics Scattered around your house or apartment, lightly coating the surface of your coffee table and lurking in the nooks and crannies of each room, are millions of your skin and hair cells. There are so many, you likely don’t even notice them or feel any ownership over these lost biological bits of yourself. But what if someone came into your house and took them?
Pulsating micro-bubbles produce harvestable energy
Wireless sensing systems are utilized in a wide range of engineering fields, but despite the research improving functionality power management in these sensors remains suboptimal. Instead of using chemical and short-lived batteries, a new paper by Jang et al. proposes an alternative energy harvesting strategy using micro-bubbles submerged in water. From small mechanical oscillations, vibrations of microbubbles are harvested into electrical energy used for wireless sensing systems.
Molecular determinants for α-tubulin methylation by SETD2
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Seeing strain at the nanometer level with new TEM technique
Material strain is a critical factor in the electron transport properties of a material, which directly affect the lifetime and performance of electronic devices. However, the ongoing miniaturization of electronic devices demands spatial resolutions most investigation techniques struggle to provide. Guzzinati et al.
Who owns your cells?
Scattered around your house or apartment, lightly coating the surface of your coffee table and lurking in the nooks and crannies of each room, are millions of your skin and hair cells. There are so many, you likely don't even notice them, or feel any ownership over these lost biological bits of yourself. But what if someone came into your house and took them?
It's never too late to travel: A senior's guide to safe travel
No matter what anyone tells you, you should never miss the chance to travel. So long as you can walk – or have someone push you around – you’re good to go! Seniors do have a few more things to worry about than younger travellers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it at all. Here’s how to stay safe while you travel, no matter what your age may be. As you get older, you may need a variety of medications and aids which help you to get through the day.
7 productivity tips for rookie graphic designers | The Design Range
Working as a graphic designer is a pretty awesome job, but it is a job that requires a lot of self-motivation and productivity. Most graphic designers work freelance, which means trying to please several clients and meet various deadlines at the same time. It can be difficult to focus and achieve the high productivity necessary to thrive in the job, but there are little steps you can take to improve and develop good habits.
Sexually Assaulted Male Soldiers Suffer in Silence
According to an annual report released by the Pentagon’s Department of Defense, thirty-eight men in the United States Armed Forces are sexually assaulted every single day. This statistic is overlooked by citizens, media outlets, and leaders within the military itself. In a country where newspapers are carefully curated to maintain the public’s perception of male soldiers as masculine, to admit to being sexually assaulted is a rebellious act.
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