Journal of Digital Humanities
The Journal of Digital Humanities has just brought out its first issue. It includes a special section on the status of ‘theory’ in digital humanities, in which I’m very pleased…
Read moreMixed metaphors, marked bodies, and the question of “theory”
A ferment of planning is afoot in what I find it difficult not to think of as digital humanities fandom. After Natalia Cecire’s great blog post a couple of weeks…
Read moreMLA 2011 and #mla11: on tweeting conventions
I’ve just spent quite an exhiliarating weekend attending the Modern Language Association in Los Angeles. MLA had previously been known to me by reputation as a terrifyingly large conference, a…
Read moreQueerness, fantasy and Marxist materiality
Yesterday I attended a talk on “Queer Studies and the Crisis of Capitalism,” with Jordana Rosenberg, Amy Villarejo, and Meg Wesling. Even given my propensity to take copious notes, I…
Read moreEve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009
I think many adults (and I am among them) are trying, in our work, to keep faith with vividly remembered promises made to ourselves in childhood: promises to make invisible…
Read moreold percolations on affect and fandom
I haven’t been the best of bloggers, have I? It’s so long since I posted, WordPress has changed its interface. The conference went very well, anyway. Tavia Nyong’o gave a…
Read moreSolipsistic intimacies
A blog is an exercise in navel-gazing (except when it isn’t, and there are plenty on my blogroll which are not); even my earliest teenage paper diaries are filled with…
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