@hdhudson
Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.
Congratulations! That is really exciting news.
Did we all know that the second season of Deadloch drops this month??
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Hey guys, new chapter for your edited collection on the history of the book just dropped.
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
We are really going to regret the technology we have built.
Graphic showing six cropped woodcut images from the Nuremberg Chronicle depicting various female saints and historic women. A couple of the women hold books, and two hold swords. Another has a sword through her neck. Text alongsude them reads, "Which Nuremberg Chronicle woman are.you? 1 Outwardly calm but inwardly screaming. 2 Haven't slept in a week. 3 In pain but carrying on. 4 So over this nonsense. 5 Off with their heads. 6 Warrior queen." At the bottom, pale text says, "Images from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), Rare Book School, RBS 6734."
Which Nuremberg Chronicle lady are you?
Images from @rarebookschool.bsky.social, RBS 6734.
a barnes and noble display of emerald fennel movie branded copies of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. the sign over them reads: "It's Wutherin' Time!" -- Heathcliff
thought you probably needed to see this
still unclear to me how the species made it this far
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Copy of medieval miniature of dragon with tongue sticking out and wings raised on a brown rock. Original from Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 89
Same image showing all the medieval pigments applied
Here's a cute little dragon I painted on calfskin (copied from a 13th century bestiary) using traditional medieval techniques and pigments (labelled in second image) #medievalmanuscripts #medievalscriptorium #bookhistory
Graph. The left axis is height in cm, from "real short" (0 cm) to "yowza!" (25+ cm) -- the in-between numbers are labeled in 5cm increments. The bottom axis is decades of the 18th century. The graph starts at a moderately high height, about 15cm, in the early decades, drops to almost the scalp between about 1730-1765, and rises slowly to about 1770 and then very rapidly until it peaks at around 1779, then drops like a stone in 1780 and slowly subsides after that. The graph is illustrated with about a dozen and a half women's portraits collaged in at the appropriate dates, to illustrate.
Charting out women's hairstyle heights of the eighteenth century for a video I'm working on
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#FashionHistory
English Debates TL; DR Is it important to read long texts? All the way to the end? Yes, cries of the chorus of those who bemoan the decline of reading. No, shout the techno optimists, who have their reading done for them. . .. Join us for a debate on the culture of reading with English professors Maurice Lee (Overwhelmed) and Deidre Lynch (Loving Literature). February 25th, 5 p.m. Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Curated by Martin Puchner
Boston-area Bluesky, I will be in dialogue next Weds at 5 w/ Maurice Lee (author of the wonderful #19thc studies bk _Overwhelmed_), on a topic of interest to all of us who teach or wonder about our capacity to read texts exceeding a 300-character limit.
TL; DR
Here's the poster--please join us.
Mona Narain's 2/19 Abstract
Don’t miss out, ABO readers! Mona Narain, our scholarship editor, will speak on Charlotte Smith and Phillis Wheatley Peters' poetry at the next Columbia Seminar in #18C European Culture meeting this Thursday, 2/19, at 7:00pm (Eastern).
Zoom link: yeshiva-university.zoom.us/j/95230908037
Abstract 👇.
Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
This is such a great and timely project -- excited to read this article today!
dramatically gesturing towards my computer screen as we speak!
!!?
At Austen conferences Mr Bennet appears to tell an over-speaker “you have delighted us long enough”
Cautionary tale: I asked Gemini to transcribe a 1-page PDF from The Morning Post from the early 1800s. I was interested in testing its accuracy.
It hallucinated a full transcription of book review that doesn't exist and then invented false citations when I asked where the review was from.
#AI
Save the dates for our upcoming #RSVPDigiEvents! More details will be shared as dates approach (so watch this space!). Registration links for each of these events can be found by scanning the QR code or visiting our website: rs4vp.org/digital-even... Hope to "see" you there!
Photo showing the inside of a book binding
Hidden in the binding of this 16th century French herbal, a book describing the uses of plants, are sheets of printed 'waste' used by the binder to bulk up the cover. This seems to be a frame for something never printed #fragments #bindings
If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...
I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
The paper astrolabe in the binding. Source: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg832/0560/image
And here is the paper astrolabe that is included into the binding of the so-called "Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch". This paper instrument left the highlighted lasting impression on the nearby blank pages. #bookhistory #histsci
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Continuing (b/c I'm once more teaching my Austen class) my JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
“Now and then, they were honoured with a call from her ladyship . . .She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently ” –Pride and Prejudice, ch. 30
For the #BookHistory and #GLAM crowds!
Letterpress marginal "No." with a hand drawn manicure below.
Talk to the hand
Always love it when #bookhistory and #romancelandia intersect.
This is so fascinating. Taking the sprayed edges trend into a new subgenre, too!
