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Eileen Joy deposited The Work, or the Agency, of the Nonhuman in Premodern Art in the group
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn overview of the “state of the field” of critical post/humanist studies that also argues for the important intervention of premodern studies into contemporary post/humanist studies, and which serves as the Introduction (with chapter summaries) to “Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism,” eds. Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy (Ohio State…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited The Boy Who Couldn’t Change the World: An Open Letter to Verso Books and The New Press in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn Open Letter & petition, with signatures, from punctum books to The New Press and Verso Books (UK), relative to their recent compilations (in print and e-book form) of Aaron Swartz’s selective collected writings, “The Boy Who Could Change the World,” in which the undersigned ask Verso and The New Press to reverse and repair this unfortunate…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited The Boy Who Couldn’t Change the World: An Open Letter to Verso Books and The New Press in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn Open Letter & petition, with signatures, from punctum books to The New Press and Verso Books (UK), relative to their recent compilations (in print and e-book form) of Aaron Swartz’s selective collected writings, “The Boy Who Could Change the World,” in which the undersigned ask Verso and The New Press to reverse and repair this unfortunate…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited The Boy Who Couldn’t Change the World: An Open Letter to Verso Books and The New Press in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn Open Letter & petition, with signatures, from punctum books to The New Press and Verso Books (UK), relative to their recent compilations (in print and e-book form) of Aaron Swartz’s selective collected writings, “The Boy Who Could Change the World,” in which the undersigned ask Verso and The New Press to reverse and repair this unfortunate…[Read more]
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This essay ruminates the ethics of a co-implicated, bounded dependence between objects (human and otherwise) that are always in some sense withdrawing from each other but also always together in a some-place labeled “here”: the world (where no Absolute or Outside vantage point is possible or habitable). This essay also considers the possibility,…[Read more]
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
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Eileen Joy deposited Disturbing the Wednesday-ish Business-as-Usual of the University Studium: A Wayzgoose Manifest on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
A manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).
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Eileen Joy deposited It is the Connection of Desire to Reality that Possesses Revolutionary Force, or, Why I Decided Not to Commit Suicide, After All on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
An expanded version of a talk presented at the Sub-conference of the Modern Language Association, “The Public and Its Privates,” Cheer-up Charlie’s, Austin, Texas, 7 January 2015, that ruminates both the difficulties of collective work as well as how various scholarly collectives create spaces of radical hospitality within which individual perso…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Piercing the Windows of My Asylum: Chaucer’s Griselda and Lars von Trier’s Bess McNeill on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
Through a comparative analysis of Chaucer’s “The Clerk’s Tale” and Lars von Trier’s film “Breaking the Waves,” this essay wonders what happens when two texts and one reader happen to each other and open up a singular adventure that is also a moment of ‘futurition’ that opens up new horizons of meaning, both human and inhuman. How can we reckon the…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Working Darkly and Beautifully at the Bottom of Our Game: Failing, Fragility, and Making Things on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
This essay argues, through various personal anecdotes, for a university in which our work and lives would turn away from impersonal professionalism and more towards a praxis where we would recognize better, as Brantley Bryant has written, that our “very strength, our very expertise, comes from darkness, indeterminacy, unmarketably disastrous…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited And Then There Was One: A Saint’s Life on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
TAG is a journal/experiment of new writing that publishes two works per phase, the authors of which becoming, in turn, the editors of the next phase. “And Then There Was One” is a short story that was solicited / “tagged” by Luke A. Fidler and Anthony Opal.
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Eileen Joy deposited This Is Not My (or, Our Time), so Please Take Ecstasy With Me: The Necessity of Generous Reading on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
A plea for more generous modes of reading each other’s scholarship in order to arrive at a University that values productive dissensus within a framework of shared endeavor and solidarity. The essay also argues for new relational modes in which personal, professional and other identities would be rejected in favor of cruising each other’s thought and work.
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Eileen Joy deposited The Boy Who Couldn’t Change the World: An Open Letter to Verso Books and The New Press on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
An Open Letter & petition, with signatures, from punctum books to The New Press and Verso Books (UK), relative to their recent compilations (in print and e-book form) of Aaron Swartz’s selective collected writings, “The Boy Who Could Change the World,” in which the undersigned ask Verso and The New Press to reverse and repair this unfortunate…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited The Work, or the Agency, of the Nonhuman in Premodern Art on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
An overview of the “state of the field” of critical post/humanist studies that also argues for the important intervention of premodern studies into contemporary post/humanist studies, and which serves as the Introduction (with chapter summaries) to “Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism,” eds. Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy (Ohio State…[Read more]
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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Eileen Joy deposited Thomas Smith, Humfrey Wanley, and the “Little-Known Country” of the Cotton Library in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAlthough there were many handwritten, often informal catalogues of Sir Robert Cotton’s manuscripts and books during his lifetime and in the years afterwards, the desire for an official printed catalogue which could be circulated in the public realm did not really bear fruit until the late 1600s. And when two versions finally did appear — the…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Thomas Smith, Humfrey Wanley, and the “Little-Known Country” of the Cotton Library in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAlthough there were many handwritten, often informal catalogues of Sir Robert Cotton’s manuscripts and books during his lifetime and in the years afterwards, the desire for an official printed catalogue which could be circulated in the public realm did not really bear fruit until the late 1600s. And when two versions finally did appear — the…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Thomas Smith, Humfrey Wanley, and the “Little-Known Country” of the Cotton Library in the group
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAlthough there were many handwritten, often informal catalogues of Sir Robert Cotton’s manuscripts and books during his lifetime and in the years afterwards, the desire for an official printed catalogue which could be circulated in the public realm did not really bear fruit until the late 1600s. And when two versions finally did appear — the…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited A Time for Radical Hope: Freedom, Responsibility, Publishing, and Building New Publics in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores the various state(s) and future(s) of academic publishing, and also makes an argument for the radical hope of a vibrantly futurist University-Library, and the formation of new cultural-intellectual-artistic publics, that would come into being in new para-institutional spaces.
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Eileen Joy deposited A Time for Radical Hope: Freedom, Responsibility, Publishing, and Building New Publics in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores the various state(s) and future(s) of academic publishing, and also makes an argument for the radical hope of a vibrantly futurist University-Library, and the formation of new cultural-intellectual-artistic publics, that would come into being in new para-institutional spaces.
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