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January 25, 2013
January 23, 2013
"Although most academic research is funded by the public, universities all but force their scholars..."
Although most academic research is funded by the public, universities all but force their scholars to publish their results in journals that take ownership of the work and place it behind expensive pay walls.
Centuries ago, when printing and mailing paper journals was the most efficient way to disseminate new knowledge, a symbiotic relationship developed between scholars, who had ideas they wanted to share, and publishers, who had printing presses and the means to convey printed works to a wide audience. Transferring copyright to publishers, which protected their ability to recover costs and profit from their investment, was a reasonable price for authors to pay to further their disseminating mission.
But with the birth of the internet, scholars no longer needed publishers to distribute their work. As NYU’s Clay Shirky has noted, publishing went from being an industry to being a button.
Had the leaders of major research universities reacted to this technological transformation with any kind vision, Swartz’s dream of universal free access to the scholarly literature would now be a reality. But they did not. Rather than seize this opportunity to greatly facilitate research and education, both within and outside the academy, they chose instead to reify the status quo.
”- Excellent, necessary piece on open access and how academia betrayed and continues to betray Aaron Swartz, who took his own life earlier this month. (via explore-blog)
January 21, 2013
Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: from Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work by Rachel Blau Duplessis
Let me return to memory, since I have a bad memory—maybe I haven’t talked about memory yet. I have lived, for many years, with the losses of shadowy memory. Mourning for it. But in the poem I found that I was building the space of memory or a replica of its processes. There is a repressed and…
January 9, 2013
"Arable lands as re
cipient (declarative) of
—at some point— ripp
ling surfaces..."
Arable lands as re
cipient (declarative) of
—at some point— ripp
ling surfaces (fitted
to foredge) or simply
not to just come & go all
walled-in, dropped-out or unusual.
They throw foot against in-law
welling up to wind out there
How they saw their
skins & went on crying
into her eye
until brought back by hairs
to some wrong ground,
some stupid effluence:
‘that I am a dominion in me’
- Untitled #13, 1-8-13
January 6, 2013
A couple of pics from the reading at Pete’s—somehow...
A couple of pics from the reading at Pete’s—somehow missing a shot of Tyrone, but he gave an amazing reading that night. Got to hear Julia do a rendition of her collaboration w/Michelle Detorie (read it here). Thanks again to Thom & Dottie for hosting, and to Luisa & Ilya for letting us stay w/them!
opened by customs: Books of 2012
Julia Drescher’s _hands chalk the walls_
Editioned in house for a bay area tour, Drescher takes inspiration from a drippy pink twombly — so that seeping sonic abstraction pries the cuteness from kids to reveal a choral, echoes of a wise punk proletariat of children/ animals:
small
hands…
January 3, 2013
COMPLINE: CRAIG DWORKIN | THE CRYSTAL TEXT
Craig Dworkin’s The Crystal Text, is officially ready for your minds and hearts. Printed entirely on the Heidelberg at Compline HQ, The Crystal Text is Dworkin’s homage to the Clark Coolidge collection of the same name. At a reading here in the Bay Area last month, Dworkin mentioned…
December 30, 2012
"In a ditch as though shuddering back
into coincidence
The green paths, earthly hawthorne.
&..."
In a ditch as though shuddering back
into coincidence
The green paths, earthly hawthorne.
& slept up besides anyone:
brownish frame, high plaint
Even nodding lilacs
Or these scholars are correct
about what pouting sensitive adornmt.
‘s more natural, more wincing look
or very lonely Style.
& I was made by that pre-
war but they
get you here &
they get you
here (Happy New Year)
- Untitled #12, 12/22/12
December 22, 2012
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