Author: Craig
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||| Decadent Action Manifesto |||
(from that wonderful crew RTMark) After meeting Iain Sinclair, the author of ‘Hackney that Rose-Red Empire’ at a reading in a book shop in Brick Lane the other day, It rekindled my fledgling interest in Psychogeography. Some years back, I used to be a flaneur (if one can admit to being such a thing). And
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The Hazard of Conformity…
Conformity and obedience aren’t necessarily bad things. All social systems require a certain amount of conformity to function. Driving on the left-hand side of the road or the voting systems require a high degree of ‘conformity’ so as to allow these systems to function for all. However, conformity without critique or ‘passive conformity’ is extraordinarily
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(Guardian) How G20 Ian Tomlinson footage spread shock around world
Here is some interesting media analysis from the Guardian newspaper relating to the use of amateur footage during the recent G20 protest. Increasingly, the democratic power game is being fought out in the media and I am surprised the police didn’t realise this and moderate their tactics accordingly. For a broader analysis of contemporary new
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Report: Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship (or tools for value driven scholarship?)
(Google’s data centre) Another excellent report from some excellent US scholars. But I wish that I had more time to properly interrogate the ideas and claims I often read in these Digital Humanities documents ( but if I may be a bold and superficial blogger, there are some recurring themes in numerous of these documents).
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Institutional repositories and data re-use for the humanities
(originally written for Arts-humanities.net) Institutional repositories have become increasing important systems to store the rising amount of data produced by researchers. An institutional repository may be university wide or subject specific. They may serve the needs of a particular institution, a group of institutions, a nation, or an entire region. Examples include the UK’s Archaeological