Princeton's Ban on Copyright to Journal Publishers

Princeton announces a ban on exclusive copyright going to publishers; part of their Open Access policy

Punctum Books!

Punctum's new web site!!

The press release for Punctum Books! -- spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion

......  Gettin' Anagogic

 

Symposium on Renaissance and Digital Humanities

I will be participating in a symposium (abstract of my talk below) at the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, University of Alabama, March 5th, 2011

 Boyle: Hacking the New Humanities: The virtual sovereign in Thomas Hobbes and militant video games.

This talk (and accompanying demonstration of early modern frontispieces and visual texts alongside animations of contemporary militant gaming environments) examines some emerging modalities of contemporary digital objects in relation to early modern studies within the humanities. Beyond access and convergence – two terms that inform large-scale digitization projects across the humanities -- what can digital studies offer us in thinking about a renewed interest in the early and pre-modern periods.  Specifically, this paper looks at animations of the idea of the “distributed sovereign” in contemporary digital network theory. Network theory has explicitly re-appropriated the idea of the sovereign in exploring how power and control are now embedded in the executable codes that make up our networked databases and digital objects and interfaces.  What kinds of comparisons can be made of the image of the sovereign in early modern textual interfaces and the image of the distributed sovereign in digital network theory (re-imagined in terms of protocols, codes, and exploits)? 

Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature: Mediation and Affect

Introduction to my book, Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature: Mediation and Affect

 available for preview

 Full contents list

Reviews: '…a masterful study of political, philosophical, and epistemological spaces in English literature from Eikonoclastes and Leviathan to Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Ranging from 17th century Epicureanism to the invention of calculus, from early modern political theory and epistemology to baroque allegory, Boyle's monograph is intellectually adventurous.' 
Graham Hammill, SUNY at Buffalo, USA 

Babel/Postmedieval: PROGRAM ONLINE: 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group @ University of Texas at Austin [4-6 November 2010]

The program for the Babel 1st biennial meeting at University of Texas, Austin is now online here

"after the end: the humanities, medieval studies, and the post-catastrophe"

 Panel sessions

Thursday sessions

Friday sessions

Saturday sessions

Plenary sessions by Paul Bowman (Cardiff) and Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA); Aranye Fradenburg (UCSB) and Noreen Giffney (Trinity); Heather Love (UPenn) and Michael O'Rourke (Dublin)

{And a pool party that requires lifeguards}

co-sponsored by the BABEL Working Group, University of Texas at Austin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, College of Charleston, and postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.