The following article was originally published in the April-May 2013 edition of Red Pepper (Issue 189). Who can share what on the internet? There is an increasing awareness of debates around illegal sharing through high profile court cases and controversies in the news – through things like the Pirate Bay, Wikileaks, or the recent tragic […]
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PROJECTS
- The Public Domain Review - A web-based review of works which have entered the public domain.
- Data Journalism Handbook - A free book showing how journalists can use data to improve the news.
- Europe's Energy - Put EU energy targets into context.
- OpenSpending - Mapping public spending around the world.
PHILOSOPHY
- Goethe and Hegel discuss Hamann at a tea party
- Review of Hamann and the Tradition in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- The Hegemony of the Eye
- Zeno of Citium on Flute-Playing Olives and Harp-Bearing Trees
- Diderot on Living Marble and Self-Replicating Harpsichords
- Hamann and Benjamin on the Concept of Experience
- When Leibniz met Spinoza
- Hamann, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein on the Language of Philosophers
- The Intellectual History of Europe
- Sketch for “Romanticism Without Borders” workshop series
- The contingent cathedral: notes on Lewis White Beck’s Early German Philosophy
- Leibniz’s Funny Thought
- The Construction of Immateriality
- The Magus in New York
MEDIA & TRANSPARENCY
- Guardian piece on why open data matters for social justice and democratic accountability
- New research project exploring tensions between open data, data protection and privacy
- Deadly Crossings: the Berlin Wall and the US-Mexico border
- Interview on Russia Today about social spending in UK
- Slides from talk at Utrecht Data School: “An Epistemological Experiment: Issue Mapping, Data Journalism and the Public Understanding of Complex Issues”
- Talk on Digital Methods and Data Journalism at the Data School, University of Utrecht, 27th November 2014
- Slides and video for talk on “Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods”, Columbia University
- Talk: “Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods”, Columbia University, 23rd September 2014
- Paper on “Open Data and the Politics of Transparency” at European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2014, University of Glasgow
- Secret government contracts stop citizens knowing if outsourcing works
- The Data Journalism Handbook now freely available in 12 languages
- Secret government contracts undermine our democracies. Let’s stop them.
- The Snowden leaks are about much more than state surveillance
- The UK’s new Lobbying Bill is a farce
- The Business of Transparency
- Guardian piece on Europeana open data release
- Science, data and the public
- The Future of Data Journalism
- What data can and cannot do
- Data Journalism Handbook released at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
CULTURE
- A Small Sebald
- Why Sebald put pictures in his books
- The Genius and the Soil: Open Access and the Politics of Information
- The Sleepless City
- The Future of Memory
- The Sea of Stories
- The Swedenborgian Legacy
- Shrigleyian, Shrigleyesque, Shrigleyish
- Here is St. Valentine
- On Archiving Everything: Borges, Calvino, Google
- Architectural Literature, Literary Architecture
- Ars Combinatoria at Transmediale
- Interview with Peter McElligott of Berkeley Tool Library
PUBLIC DOMAIN
- Mapping the Cultural Commons
- The Genius and the Soil: Open Access and the Politics of Information
- All Things Come To Those Who Wait
- Postcards for the Public Domain Review
- The Public Domain Review is “a temple of the esoteric and forgotten”
- A translation fund for public domain texts
- Interview on PopTech
- The Public Domain Review is launched!
- Introducing: The Public Domain Review
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
- Talk: “Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods”, Columbia University, 23rd September 2014
- On making digital editions of public domain works for teaching and research
- Curating the Commons with TEXTUS
- On Machine Readable Reading Lists
- Mockups for OpenPhilosophy.org
- The Citation Conundrum
- Let’s make OpenPhilosophy.org!
- TEXTUS: an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata
- Ideas for OpenPhilosophy.org
- Who read what? Mapping influence in intellectual history
- How much will digital tools change the nature of scholarship?
- Historical Hooks: ‘X Hundred Years Ago Today, …’
- Bibliographica – for the collaborative development of bibliographies