I woke up this morning to discover that the French news website Numerama just ran a piece on how the French government claimed that they owned the copyright in a photograph that I took (see Google’s English translation here): Quand on cherche à illustrer l’Open Data, l’une des photographies qui revient le plus souvent est [...]
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Sketch for “Romanticism Without Borders” workshop series
For a few months I’ve been thinking of starting a workshop series on the influence and legacy of different forms of romanticism around the world. Each workshop would have a day or half day of short papers on a variety of topics, authors and works. The workshops would be accessible to a non-specialist audience. I’ve [...]
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The Swedenborgian Legacy
Swedenborg’s system of the world wants central spontaneity; it is dynamic, not vital, and lacks power to generate life. There is no individual in it. The universe is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order and with unbroken unity, but cold and still. What seems an individual and a will, [...]
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The contingent cathedral: notes on Lewis White Beck’s Early German Philosophy
Lewis White Beck‘s 1969 Early German Philosophy is a long, rich and rambling chronicle of philosophical thinkers and philosophical ideas originating from what we now call Germany, roughly from the birth of St. Ambrose in 340 to the death of Kant in 1804. Beck opens the book with the question “Can there be, should there [...]
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The Public Domain Review is “a temple of the esoteric and forgotten”
A wonderful review of the Public Domain Review, of which I am co-founder, courtesy of the Reviews Editor at Full Stop:
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Shrigleyian, Shrigleyesque, Shrigleyish
Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery is one of David Shrigley’s biggest exhibitions to date. If you’ve seen Shrigley’s drawings or books before, you’ll immediately recognise the world that the exhibition exhibits, with its roughly scrawled figures and thinly underlined block capitals. While it isn’t necessary to classify or to categorise something in order to [...]
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Mockups for OpenPhilosophy.org
Work is now underway on OpenPhilosophy.org, a website that will enable users to transcribe, translate, annotate and create bibliographies of public domain philosophy texts. Today we did some basic mockups for what different pages on the site might look like. Here’s a quick look. Front page Top bar: Small logo in top left. About page, [...]
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The Citation Conundrum
There is an unknown – but probably shockingly large – number of public domain texts on the web. Many of these could be of value to students and scholars. Lots of digital texts have page numbers which can be straightforwardly referenced in papers and publications. For example the journal article, the scanned monograph, born digital [...]
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Here is St. Valentine
An impromptu St. Valentine’s day inspired group missive from my friend Alex Pickup inspired its impromptu spirited republication. Here is St. Valentine. Lord of love, Never prisoner of Popocatepetl, Unruly as a child, Ruly as an adult, His dreams are our fragrant rooms to dwell in, His fragrant rooms are ours to dream in, Precise [...]
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Let’s make OpenPhilosophy.org!
A little while ago I posted some ideas for a project called OpenPhilosophy.org, which would enable users to transcribe, translate, annotate and create collections of philosophical texts which have entered the public domain. I’m very excited to say that the project has secured some funding from JISC, who champion digital technology for use in higher [...]
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