Denis Diderot explains how he can make marble come to life ‘whenever he pleases’ in an imaginary dialogue between himself and his friend Jean le Rond d’Alembert, mathematician and co-editor of the Encyclopedia. In the following passage he has just informed d’Alembert, much to the latter’s astonishment, that he knows how to make marble have […]
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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
- 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
- Communicating Climate Change
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