This semester I'll be teaching a Writing 20 here at Duke organized around Utopian science fiction from the latter half of the twentieth century: Star Trek, The Dispossessed, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and Dollhouse. (A longer description can be found here.) In keeping with the themes of the course that consider the digital as a possible space for Utopia, I've decided to move from the Blackboard discussion forum to a public blog housed with Duke's new WordPress project.

With all the talk of the importance of the digital humanities at MLA I'm surprised there hasn't already been a post here on the subject of Brian Croxall. Brian, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Clemson University, decided to present his paper at MLA by proxy as a combination stunt-protest over the catastrophic job market...

I posted a bit on my blog this morning on the situation in California and thought it would might be something we wanted to talk about here at HASTAC as well. Here's that post, with links to some resources elsewhere on the Internet...

Boing Boing has gotten a lot of eyes this week with Cory Doctorow's post on the leaked text of the "secret" Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement...

Hello! I'll be liveblogging Diana Taylor's address at Duke today, "The Digital as Anti-Archive?", part of the 2009 Provost Lecture series "The Future of the Past, the Future of the Present: The Historical Record in the Digital Age." Taylor is a professor in Spanish and Performance Studies at NYU.

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Well, is it?

"I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life." -Barack Obama, fifteen years too late for me