Version 7.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Pedagogy. Linux.

• Via Ready Steady Blog, a new, unreleased in English until now, interview with Borges in Habitus.
• This week’s two from The Quarterly Conversation: Jorge Ibarguengoitia and Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop.

• Gamasutra looks at the history of gaming on the Apple II.
• The Guardian looks at the conservative attacks on Simone De Beauvoir’s sexuality.
• Mother Jones looks at the fight against so-called “homegrown terrorists.”
• Two more reviews from The Quarterly Conversation: Jose Emilio Pacheco and Rodrigo Fresan.

• Two more from the winter issue of The Quarterly Conversation: reviews of David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous and three of Cesar Aira’s novels.
• Two from the May issue of Postmodern Culture: Jeffrey T. Nealon’s The Swerve Around P: Literary Theory after Interpretation and Kyle A. Wiggins’ Futures of Negation: Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future and Utopian Science Fiction. No links, I am not linking to closed access journals anymore.
• Via Grand Text Auto, a New Yorker article about the disgusting “Myspace Hoax” suicide.  As I note in the comment section, as a teenager I was the victim of fake love notes for months one year.  This was before I was online; I cannot even begin to imagine what being a teenager who is fucked with like this in the Internet age.
• I am also reading Julian Dibbell’s A Rape In Cyberspace, which GTA also linked to.

• Jeff Howard’s Interpretative Quests In Theory & Pedagogy from the spring issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly.

• In These Times wonders how does Laura Bush  Sleep At Night?

• In an essay for the latest issue of The Quarterly Conversation, Scott Esposito asks What Are Prisons For?

• Via The Literature Compass Blog, the European Graduate School is offering some of its lectures on You Tube. I am mostly interested in the ones from Michel Houellebecq, Judith Butler, and Jean Baudrillard.

• Mother Jones reviews Edwidge Danticat’s newest book.

• The Quarterly Conversation’s review of Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games.

• Like I need another reason to despise Hilary Clinton, but this is troubling. No thanks.

• Digital Humanities Quarterly on Tenure, Promotion, and Digital Publication.

There are four publications I enjoy with new issues out recently: The Quarterly Conversation and Bookforum have put out their summer issues. There are also June issues available from Bookslut and Words Without Borders.

• Time interviews Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath.

• The Quarterly Conversation’s article about rereading Catch-22 is very good.

• Bookslut interviews Alison Bechdel from Dykes To Watch Out For.

• Laurie Halse Anderson has a podcast up for new her book Twisted (which came in the mail yesterday afternoon). In the podcast she talks about the novel and reads a few excerpts.