A new semester has begun and I have a lot of exciting projects for 2015 that I am eager about, some of which I hope to report soon. But in the meantime, here are some links that have accumulated while the semester was beginning, while I was in Vancouver for MLA, and since. (Also, in mini-hyperarchival news, I just received in the mail today a 32 gigabyte USB drive to replace my almost full 4 GB drive. It feels good to be moving up in the world with regard to how much textual data I have/can produced/store.)
Environment
Trent Moore, “This Is the Final Video CNN Plans To Air When the Apocalypse Eventually Arrives.”
Out of the Woods, “Klein vs. Klein.”
Rebecca Solnit, “Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart.”
Emily Atkin, “A Nuclear Plant Leaked Oil into Lake Michigan for Two Months Straight.”
National Security State
Hugh Eakin interviews Mark Danner, “Our New Politics of Torture.”
Erika Eichelberger and A. J. Vicens, “The Cost of US Wars Since 9/11: $1.6 Trillion.”
Black Lives Matter
Teju Cole, “Unmournable Bodies.”
George Yancy and Judith Butler, “What’s Wrong with ‘All Lives Matter’?”
International
Richard Seymour, “On Charlie Hedbo.”
Dashiell Bennett, “Charlie Hedbo‘s Brazen Defence.”
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “Anonymous Claims Its First Victim in ‘Operation Charlie Hedbo.'”
Keely Lockhart, “‘Hacktivist’ Group Anonymous Says It Will Avenge Charlie Hedbo Attacks by Shutting Down Jihadist Websites.”
Hyperarchival
William Davies, “The Data Sublime.”
Insurance Archives of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Library.
Gabrielle Karampelas, “Stanford University Press Awarded $1.2 Million for the Publishing of Interactive Scholarly Works.”
Literature and Culture
SJ Fowler, “Dinner with Tomaž: Remembering Tomaž Šalamun 1941-2014.”
Jeffrey J. Williams, “The New Modesty in Literary Criticism.”
Joshua Rothkopf, “Sex, Drugs, and the Postal Service: Thomas Pynchon, a Beginner’s Guide.”
Anna Shechtman, “Too Faithful to Succeed: On Inherent Vice.”
Evan Kindley, “The One that Got Away: On Inherent Vice.”
Paul Auster, “How I Became a Writer.”
Charles Bernstein, “Letter from Warsaw.”
Cory Doctorow, “Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States Graphic Novel.”
David A. Bell, “On The New Republic.”
The Nostalgia Trap, “Punk Rock and Shitty Jobs.”
Sam Barsanti, “Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville Is Getting a Remake.”
Alex McCown, “Yes, Scarlett Johansson Will Star in the Ghost in the Shell Movie.”
Scott Mendelson, “For Universal Pictures, Zero Blockbusters Equals Record Profits.”
Alison Flood, “David Mitchell to Publish New Novel Slade House this Autumn.”
Paul Rosenberg, “God Is on the Ropes.”
Derek Thompson, “The Shameful Triumph of Football.”
Rachel Zarrell, “Over 2,400 MS-DOS Games–like Oregon Trail–Can Now Be Played Online.”
Charlie Jane Anders, “67 Science Fiction And Fantasy Movies To Watch Out For In 2015.”
Um, Lincoln Michel, “Mark Zuckerberg Aims to Start World’s Largest Bookclub on Facebook.”
North Pole Labor Study Group, “The Class Struggle at the North Pole.”
And an old student of mine, Mary Pappalardo, just started a new blog, Infinite Organs.
Humanities and Higher Education
Alyssa Christensen, “A 7-Step Guide to Your Final Semester as an English Major.”
The Hyperarchival Parallax 