Monthly Archives: June 2011

Debating Digital Scholarship

I’ve just finished my public debate with Martin Weller on Digital Scholarship. The motion was as follows: “This house believes that, in the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in … Continue reading

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Making sense of search data

http://open.academia.edu/RobertFarrow/Keywords (If you have an academia.edu account and you’re trying to find this information, scroll down your profile page and click on ‘keywords’… took me a while to work that one out!) It’s kind of interesting to look back over … Continue reading

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Because you’re worth it: the New College of the Humanities

There’s been a lot of debate over the last week about a new private undergraduate college with the power to award degrees (conferred by the University of London) for two reasons.  The ‘New College of the Humanities‘ (NCH) is roughly … Continue reading

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The iPad (1994)

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Dreyfus on Embodiment and AI

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Badiou, Art, Philosophy

I recently attended Alain Badiou’s mini-course on The Relationship Between Art and Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at The University of Essex. I did something I wouldn’t normally do afterwards; making my notes publicly available.  They’re available on academia.edu and … Continue reading

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