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On “A New History of the Humanities,” by Rens Bod

On “A New History of the Humanities,” by Rens Bod

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In A New History of the Humanities, Rens Bod aims to cover the “greatest hits” of the humanities from Antiquity to present day, with a goal to underline the substantial impact of the humanities on the development of humanity over centuries. He also suggests that a history of the humanities is timely, since dozens of histories of science exist.  Of note, Bod is specifically considering the humanities as “the disciplines that investigate the expressions of the human mind” (1, emphasis…

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On The Poethics of Scholarship, by Kaja Marczewska, Janneke Adema, Frances McDonald, and Whitney Trettien

On The Poethics of Scholarship, by Kaja Marczewska, Janneke Adema, Frances McDonald, and Whitney Trettien

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In this self-declared “open access pamphlet,” the editors (and authors)— Kaja Marczewska, Janneke Adema, Frances McDonald, and Whitney Trettien—take a critical approach to open, digital scholarship. They frame such an approach within the concept of a scholarly “poethics,” or, an ethical poetics. This conception is present throughout the three short essays that make up this pamphlet. Marczewska offers “The Horizon of the Publishable in/as Open Access: From Poethics to Praxis,” where she rails against the co-opting and corporatization of the…

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On “Access, Ethics and Piracy,” by Stuart Lawson

On “Access, Ethics and Piracy,” by Stuart Lawson

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In “Access, Ethics and Piracy,” Stuart Lawson briefly explores the phenomenon of “academic piracy,” or the sharing of copyrighted, toll access research on sites like SciHub or aaaaarg. He relies on the historical framework that Adrian Johns lays in his book Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates to reinforce the idea that intellectual property is not a natural or necessary state, and only came about in response to the rampant copying of books in 18th century England….

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Zotero

Zotero

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FYI, my public Zotero account is here. I’ll be adding items as I progress through my research, and each post here will have corresponding bibliographic info for the specific artifact in consideration in my Zotero library.  

Hello World!

Hello World!

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I am beginning an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Victoria in September 2016, somewhere between the fields of digital humanities, publishing, and library and information science, with a focus on open social scholarship. Within this context, I’ll be studying the interrelated areas of open access, education policy, digital publishing, social knowledge creation, and scholarly communication. So what are these Little Reviews, hmm? Basically, I’m going to use this space to air my thoughts on the relevant material I come…

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