My book From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis was published by Open Book Publishers in July 2023. You can read it online, download the pdf, or purchase printed copies at: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0355. In this book, I reflect on access to text in the digital...
While preparing my presentation for next Wednesday (which I announced under the emphatic title “The digital methods facing the challenge of text genesis”), I had to realize once more how difficult it is to think about text genesis in German the same way that I do in French or even...
I wrote a message to my kid’s educator this morning dating it August, 29th. Only to discover half an hour later that today is the 30th – 30th as in only one day left and this month is over. I have lived in a world where being in August...
The last chapter of D.C Greetham’s Theories of the Text is dedicated to “Gender in the text”. It comes last for a good reason, since it actually allows him to put in perspective all the aspects – including the most intricate deconstructivist or post-modern ones – that are dealt with in a...
Ja, es geht es ums Schreiben. Allerdings nicht ums akademische Schreiben allgemein: Es geht um das Schreiben der Habilitation, genauer gesagt um das Schreiben einer deutschen Habilitation (außergewöhnliches Thema ruft außergewöhnliche Sprache hervor). Die Sache ist die, dass ich lange Zeit nicht daran geglaubt habe, dass ich im deutschen akademischen...
Moment of truth today: I read what I had left lying a year ago, dreading to have to start all over again. The last five pages are, indeed, crap. But I was suprised – and happily – at how well the first two subparts of what is supposed to be...
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