Michel Foucault on Gaston Bachelard (video 1972) http://bit.ly/1dCsY25

Samuel Beckett's obsession with chess: how the game influenced his work http://gu.com/p/3tbhn

Jhumpa Lahiri on Unaccustomed Earth http://gu.com/p/3ta6g

Takeaway point for me on STEM shortage/over-supply: they want a reserve labour force to push price of STEM labour down.

So, you've got some really important, but boring, things to do? Forget them. Go read my new article on Sarah Waters. http://bit.ly/1a5VWWP

On the Thomas Pynchon Trail http://bit.ly/146j8kX

Had a really good experience publishing in Neo-Victorian Studies. Going to give that a write-up soon.

Publication: “You will see the logic of the design of this”: Historiography to Taxonomography in Waters’s Affinity http://bit.ly/1a5VWWP

Michel Foucault présente son livre “Les mots et les choses” (audio 1967) http://bit.ly/194vJ6q

Interview non montée de Michel Foucault (audio 1966) http://bit.ly/15mgbqu

Pynchon in Public Day Podcast Episode Zero is now online http://bit.ly/1dSzuQ0

Full response to Science-Metrix report on gold OA citation rates http://bit.ly/192dAWJ #Open_Access

So, @AlbertRolls1 brings one of the earliest reviews of Pynchon's forthcoming novel, Bleeding Edge in @OrbitJournal http://bit.ly/15jzd0S

My MP wants view on Syria & intervention. Says "Please do not feel you need any detailed knowledge on the issue" http://bit.ly/19MpKnD

The Democracy We Do Not Want http://bit.ly/19MpxB0 #politics #Syria

SXSW Panel: Vote to get Open Access on the agenda http://bit.ly/1506Q8y #Open_Access

Royal Mail chief complains about her £1.5m salary. Put workers on part-time & zero-hours contracts. http://bit.ly/1ccdBJD

Didier Eribon : Michel Foucault (TV) http://bit.ly/1cbWVBZ

Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux http://bit.ly/17fOGBS

Le courage de la vérité. Cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France. Audio (1984) http://bit.ly/14T7HrG

Plateau Simone Signoret, Michel Foucault (TV 1982) http://bit.ly/17TFIdu

Another extremely important Guardian editorial: Surveillance and the state http://gu.com/p/3t9cq

Right, final leg of flight. Adios.

His pre-history and contextualisation of structuralism was extremely informative from my literary studies perspective.

And, also, some very enjoyable stuff on Foucault and Althusser, although not groundbreaking.

Just finished reading Warren Montag's Althusser and his Contemporaries on my flight. Some interesting revisionist lineages.

Reports from the frontline of humanities OA in Japan http://bit.ly/17Rso9C #OA

The Register: 4 Ways the Guardian Could Have Protected Snowden http://bit.ly/16EsSAO

Clegg: we blocked bill allowing unlimited gov snooping, so we want Guardian's evidence of unltd snooping destroyed http://gu.com/p/3t99v

CFP: Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know (9/10/13 deadline) http://bit.ly/13Lp1UC

Adorno: Impact and Influences 13th November 2013 http://bit.ly/1dzzLHm

Somehow the SPARC Japan library science seminar has turned to discussing Thomas Pynchon. Next speaker couldn't resist continuing a theme!

Eduroam is pretty phenomenal. Especially when it works for me in Japan with no reconfiguration.

Valencia Region Government Completes Switch To LibreOffice http://bit.ly/1bWxsMQ

Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts http://bit.ly/15dxNZF

Foucault, penseur de la violence ? (2012) http://bit.ly/18NhYc3

Un-Manning; Or, Queering Bradley http://bit.ly/1awGT7V

(which I think is pathetic and false, but is what I reckon will happen)

Prediction: independent review will exonerate police & home office on Miranda detention. Rationale: secret material could help terrorists.

Photography in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz http://bit.ly/1asTzwD

The Writer as Reader: Melville and his Marginalia http://bit.ly/184oWqZ

Thinking Allowed: Michel Foucault (2013) http://bit.ly/184oTLM

Some great stuff coming out of #pkpconf in Mexico. Gearing up for SPARC Japan event here.

meTypeset can now merge NLM/JATS metadata ("front") into its own header from external CMS source http://bit.ly/14xbnRY

I'm in Tokyo. Massive thunderstorm raging. Nuclear power plant leaking. US gov intimidating. UK police state forming. SNAFU.

“@PaulLewis BREAKING: Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in jail. #Manning #Wikileaks”

Book launch and conference: Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, Sept 7th http://bit.ly/1bRhtzG

So, I left London 24hrs ago and there is now 1 hour left before I can keel over and sleep in my Tokyo hotel. Please let the hour hurry.

Perhaps we could introduce some kind of safeguard against undue interference? Your #Miranda rights sounds catchy...

I know border control is tough (I read the Guardian) but this is ridiculous

Clichéd, but, Franklin: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I've tweeted it twice already, but that Guardian editorial is extraordinary. What is the point of protecting 'freedom' if we cannot be free?

UK government destroyed Guardian hard drives http://gu.com/p/3t5qk null

"He was asking for memories, too young to know that memories were only memories of memories". Alan Hollinghurst

Michael Gove's monocultural version of the English literature curriculum http://gu.com/p/3t5kj

Caroline Lucas MP among dozens arrested in Balcombe anti-fracking protest http://gu.com/p/3t5nm

I've just seen something too upsetting even to retweet from @EverydayAbleism. Appalled. (the thing @EverydayAbleism are showing, not them)

Jim Crace: 'At the Watford Gap it hit me that the English landscape was absolutely drenched in narrative' http://gu.com/p/3t2km

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours http://gu.com/p/3t57m < such sweet freedom we have.

Using git in my writing workflow http://bit.ly/17W8WqT #git #Writing

Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam http://bit.ly/13JuYfu

The choice to be child-free is admirable, not selfish http://gu.com/p/3t43b

Jacques Chancel interviews Foucault (audio 1975) http://bit.ly/19qQ32G

Forget the Turing Test http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/08/why-cant-my-computer-understand-me.html null

Texts in Sebald's The Rings of Saturn http://bit.ly/148RIcm

Samuel Beckett Manuscript: Le dépeupleur http://bit.ly/18CBb05

Language teaching crisis as 40% of university departments face closure http://gu.com/p/3t5xg null

At my in-laws. Used Windows 8 for first time. Most horrible computing experience to date.

“@danwaterfield Q for Pynchon ppl: p512 of against the day (vintage 06) is discussion under tree nr river ref to Plato?” < not near text

Callbacks as our generation's goto statements http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html null

The Adventures of Tintin (symposium) http://bit.ly/19w76np

Ooh, my new third-year module has got its new internal code. Welcome to the "massive books" course, fellow learners.

“@courosa Kids Can’t Use Computers ... And This is Why It Should Worry You” http://bit.ly/19gUTmz ” < mandatory reading

It's pretty great seeing new students excitedly changing their Twitter names to "AM GOING TO UNI". Definite emotional perk of the job.

Is there any such thing as 'road tax'? http://bbc.in/16M0BqW

Post-structuralism and ethical practical action: Issues of identity and power (2013) http://bit.ly/1cPimMc

Dear Bill Gates, please go do one. "Bill Gates Seeking Patent To Make Shakespeare Less Boring" http://bit.ly/1cBBVs9

Mmm, signed Pynchon letter for sale. If I could buy this, I would. http://bit.ly/19q97BA

Présentation des “Dits et écrits” de Michel Foucault (TV) http://bit.ly/1a3IiTe

Educational technology and the enclosure of academic labour inside public higher education http://bit.ly/17osRjt

Playing StarCraft Could Boost Your Cognitive Flexibility http://bit.ly/1eFzvV0

Rail fares set to increase in England by > 4% http://bbc.in/1bq4xQX

This morning's writing is to be split between Emily Dickinson, Jennifer Egan, DFW (if time) & some tech stuff.

They publish some good stuff, but I'm willing to bet the reviews will now ask why I haven't cited X & Y. They weren't out when I submitted.

A "top" journal (prestige sense) has had my article for over a year now. Still waiting for reviews. Could pull it, but am then at square one

British Library network blocks Hamlet for "violent content" http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130812/06393424143/british-library-network-blocks-hamlet-violent-content.shtml

The stakes in (no) change: The AHA and academic careers http://bit.ly/13Tv0Vz

Linus Torvalds Celebrates 20 Years of Windows 3.11 With Linux 3.11-rc5 Launch http://bit.ly/14EC1cB

Can anybody recommend a (web) logo designer? I don't know the going rates...

US judge changes baby's name from Messiah to Martin http://bbc.in/13upDsn

Stuart Langridge: Federated uncertainty http://bit.ly/15tGD1g

Foucault audio files http://bit.ly/19XZyJs

Salman Rushdie on having dinner with Thomas Pynchon http://gu.com/p/3tvmv

Antique tapestry often captures the pixellation aspect of The New Aesthetic. cc @zara_dinnen

On International Pynchon Week http://bit.ly/16IzVJt #Pynchon

Wow. At the recent OJS conference, it was my journal that they chose to use to showcase digital preservation! http://bit.ly/19UpxkY [PDF]

Also, new KLF Recovered and Remastered EP -4 (Remix Project Part III) arrived. A good morning.

Writing lecture on Emily Dickinson this morn. Hauling out faves: "Because I could not stop for death" & "My life had stood -- a loaded gun"

Why You Shouldn't Trust Internet Comments http://bit.ly/16zR7ir

Request to Falsify Data Published In Chemistry Journal http://bit.ly/1ckYnpp

(apologies to @mixosaurus for modifying the quotation slightly to fit into a tweet; it was too good not to)

"What's subversive re spouting the same racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist crap?" by @mixosaurus http://bit.ly/15jr38p

I can only find one source for this, but apparently there are recycling bins in London with MAC address tracking http://bit.ly/1ewSGjS

Editors’ Choice: A perspective on Digital Scholarship at the British Library http://bit.ly/11PIW1y

CFP: Origins of Truth: a conference on Foucault’s Lectures on the WIll to Know (2013) http://bit.ly/17AyXvL

12 year anniversary of angry letter to scientific journal editor - http://bjoern.brembs.net/2013/08/12-year-anniversary-of-angry-letter-to-scientific-journal-editor/ via @bremba

Tore Rye Anderson on "blurbing Pynchon" is great - nobody blurbs the P-man.

That Richard Dawkins parody account is pretty damn good.

Nice mention of the Marquis de Sod from Pynchon's Vineland in Gary Thompson's paper. "He'll whip your lawn into shape!"

[REMINDER] Contemporary Narratives of Care (Fri 25 October 2013; Birkbeck, University of London) http://bit.ly/13POaYH

Speculation Trumps Academic Freedom: UK Court Censors Security Researchers for Reverse Engineering Publicly Ava... http://bit.ly/16zNHOx

Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit http://bit.ly/11MwxeR

“@Total_Pynchon Somewhere, through exhaustion, redirection, gusts of white noise out in the aether, this arrangement has begun to dissolve.”

.horse is here and the internet will never be the same. http://google.com/producer/s/CBIwyZ2j-QE

Arkadiusz Misztal cites @erikannotations' paper on Proust, published in Orbit https://www.pynchon.net

Foucault, La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972 – 1973 (2013) http://bit.ly/15MRWoP

Confused Xerox copiers rewrite documents, expert finds http://bbc.in/13XTaK3

The academic phrase "speaks to" has really rocketed up in usage in the past year, in my experience. I irrationally dislike it.

Matt Cissell using Bordieu to read Pynchon's conditions of production. Stuff on habitus reminding me of @lizith

Some great World's Fair postcards on show, too.

Really enjoying Jeff Severs' excellent re-reading & sourcing of the 62 Seattle World's Fair in Gravity's Rainbow. Not just LA. #ipw2013

Foucault and Technology (2013) http://bit.ly/16wxDNw

BREACH Compression Attack Steals SSL Secrets http://bit.ly/19JiJqa

Florida executes mentally ill man despite constitutional prohibition http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/05/florida-execute-mentally-ill-john-ferguson

I'm also just going to put it out there that if anybody wants to get me an advanced reading copy of the new Pynchon, I'll review it for you!

A fantastic first morning at International Pynchon Week 2013. Papers on space, religion and, now, nationalism.

Hurrah! Texas is running out of lethal injection drug. http://google.com/producer/s/CBIwtdesswE

For a more regular tweet, I'm off to the International Pynchon Week conference! This is a real thing and it's amazing http://www.ipw2013.com

Well, since I accidentally already spoke on here today (via RSS workflow), let me recommend the #Inspiringwomen tag as deeply affirming.

Deleuze, Foucault et la littérature (2013) http://bit.ly/1b4olJA

Letters: It's time Michael Gove came clean about his real agenda http://gu.com/p/3hnvm

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry edited by Ian Hamilton and Jeremy Noel-Tod http://gu.com/p/3htv6

“@qui_oui On the purpose of naming & defining research areas in the academic profession - http://bit.ly/16eRq1Q @martin_eve”

BT and Vodafone among telecoms companies passing details to GCHQ http://gu.com/p/3hn3y

2+2=5: The University and the Secular Crisis http://bit.ly/16eJtKc

#1 comment on Facebook re. that last tweet: "I just googled to check that Inbox Zero wasn't a new Pynchon novel".

I have Inbox Zero! And I have been invited to join HEFCE's expert panel on OA & monographs. Which is nice.

Has "the licensing battle been deferred" in the latest HEFCE document? http://bit.ly/1cvEnOa #Open_Access

Articles on the Guardian: GCHQ corruption, anti-fracking, Berlusconi corruption. Simon Jenkins rails against overpriced parking.

New @britishlibrary WiFi /is/ a massive improvement!

With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? http://bit.ly/142vKXX

Just to clarify, tweet re reading half of text is question @desertnaut's article poses/answers in relation to V., not a general q!

Most interesting hypothetical part: if a reader wanted to read only 1/2 text & have it make sense, which parts should be read?

Premise of piece is to see whether V.'s heterogeneous narratives can be mapped by unsupervised algorithms. (It can!)

Unsupervised text mining methods for literature analysis: a case study for Thomas Pynchon's V #dh #digitalhumanities http://bit.ly/17VdijX

OK, funky piece just published in Orbit by @desertnaut! http://bit.ly/17VdijX

A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School http://bit.ly/12FWvDk

Michael Gove says free schools are Marxist ideal. Errr. http://gu.com/p/3hyt6