I spent today in Lund, and although I have very bad cold, I had a good time. Since my morning meetings were postponed I spent some time in the Språk och Litteraturcentrum’s café. I had a stimulating conversation about the humanities with Gustav Holmberg and Sara Kjellberg there. I really enjoy such conversations, and sometimes I wish [...]

David Silver points to a nice example of good information design (from “The pattern may change, if…”, a newspaper article). Gendered-ethnic structures in relation to the American Presidency?

I have now been back in Sweden for almost a week. I have had a full work week and this weekend I have a lot of reading to do. One thing on my reading list is Stefan Blomberg’s manuscript (early version) on retro gaming for a seminar on Monday. And despite my not being very [...]

Geoffrey gave me a Christmas gift – the latest issue of Text: Journal of Computer Text Processing. This issue relates very well to my big article project – not least Jerome McGann’s, Julia Flander’s, John Bradley’s and David Hoover’s articles. 
I am spending some time in a café waiting for the connecting flight to Umeå. I am not an avid [...]

I just lost a post I had thought I had published. Well. I think am living off the hotel authentication (even though I am now at the airport) so I guess I cannot expect too much. What I said in my earlier post was that I am looking forward to going back after quite a [...]

Late yesterday evening I arrived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I am using some time in the morning to prepare this afternoon’s talk thinking about ‘the visual’ and the ‘peripatetic’ (staring out from specific projects partly). I am looking forward to meeting with Geoffrey Rockwell (again) and the digital humanities (to use that term) group at [...]