For years, I used to carry around the Companion to the Digital Humanities when traveling, and I am happy to find that this time I am engaging with travel companions of a much more reasonable format including Rita Raley’s Tactical Media, Johanna Drucker’s SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing and Ken Hillis’ Online [...]

I am watching this great program on independent bookstores (on KQED, Paperback Dreams, prudcer Alex Beckstead) – some of them in Berkeley – and others I have visited. Cody’s, Kepler’s, Powell’s. Intreviews with the key people, reactions to chain stores and internet bookshops.  I miss Cody’s in particular. Not because it is the great bookstore [...]

Mediated Memories in the Digital Age (José van Dijck)
The Virtual Life of Film (D..N. Rodowick)
Science Studies: An advanced introduction (David J. Hess)

I just found out that my new book (language education and information technology – in Swedish) is listed at some online bookstores. Here for instance. It will not be published for another couple of months though. Here is the publisher’s information on the book (so far).

I am having some clam chowder and a sierra nevada listening to one of many café/bar conversations on this trip. In this case, there is a woman and a man trying to sell a system which uses feedback (hits) from real estate sites to assess how aggressive you can do bidding (i am not quite [...]

I bought two new books yesterday: Database Aesthetics: Art in the age of information overflow (ed. Victoria Vesna) and Performative Science and Beyond: Involving the Process in Research (Hans H. Diebner).

I have just finished another stage of tidying my study at home. It is getting really nice. This past Saturday I bought a new lamp for the bar/study entry space, and the owner of the lamp store said that things have been very hectic recently there. It is getting dark in the evenings, he said, [...]

It is about midnight and it is clear that I have not really adapted to Pacific time. Maybe it is all my traveling. Well, it does not matter that much. I am looking forward to taking some time in the morning to work on my article. On Friday I have meetings. I also have to [...]

I have mostly been blogging on the HUMlab blog so far on this trip. It is nice to move between the two spaces. It is late evening (about 11 pm) and I am spending time in a Berkeley café doing miscellanous work and emailing. I have two books on the table in front of me: [...]

I bought two new books today. Both look interesting, and in particular, I am looking forward to reading Hansen. Nunes brings up some intersting issues – not least regarding learning and online education.
Mark B. N. Hansen: Bodies in Code: interfaces with digital media
Mark Nunes: Cyberspaces of Everyday Life