Seen around the web (and offline as well)
I am so totally sending a paper abstract to the organizers of this conference. Spatializations of knowledge, memory, libraries, architecture, intellectual networks — the only way it could possibly be a more perfect match with my research obsessions would be if there was a track entirely about poetry. (But I’ll find a way to work it in somehow.) Via the very useful blog Textual Studies 1500-1800.
Spotted in a bunch of places: passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers, and strangers. It’s kind of like Found Magazine, only focused exclusively on the subgenre of the anonymous passive-aggressive note. (And they’re completely right about Hot Pockets getting stolen from communal fridges, as the thieving rat bastard who used to steal mine from the college dorm kitchen can attest.)
Via if:book, a map of online communities. I’ve lived in the Blogipelago for nearly four years now, but I’ve visited quite a few of the other places.
Speaking of maps: literal translations of Swedish subway station names, from the excellent Strange Maps. I want to know the story behind Gruel Village.
Catching up on a New Yorker backlog, I finally read John Seabrook’s article on the Antikythera Mechanism. Amazing stuff. It seems to me that the Mechanism is begging for someone to write a novel about it. (Clockpunk set in the first century AD?)
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