M P Eve
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 28703 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M P Eve |
| NOMBRES | M P |
| APELLIDO | Eve |
| FIRMA | EVE M P |
| AFILIACIONES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5589-8511 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The African-American Novel
This post forms part of my '[aspects of the novel](/2022/01/04/aspects-of-the-novel/)' collection. Please do note that these entries, which may appear basic, are simply my own notes on the subject. They implicitly or explicitly describe a canon not of my own making or choosing and replicate this from various sources. The original encyclopaedia articles are far more comprehensive, nuanced and worth consulting.
Lessons from the Library
At 33TB of data in its main collection, the highly illegal Library Genesis project is one of the largest repositories of copyright-violating educational ebooks ever created. Established over a decade ago in 2008, the goal of Library Genesis is nothing short of a modern Library of Alexandria, albeit without anyone’s legal sanction. As one of its administrators wrote: within decades, generations of people everywhere in the world will grow up with a…
Warez
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly…
The Future of the Open Library of Humanities
As the Open Library of Humanities reaches its fifth birthday, this editorial reflects on the future strategic direction for the platform
Introduction
An introduction to the special collection "The Abolition of the University"
Reassembling Scholarly Communications
A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies. The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-reviewed research work—to use the power of the internet to duplicate material at an infinitesimal cost-per-copy. In this volume, contributors show that open access does not exist in a technological or…
In-sight
Reflecting about 1.1. In-sight (2010)
Virus
Reflecting about 2.1. Virus (2011)
Equivocationary Horseshit
This article argues that David Foster Wallace’s writing can profitably be understood within paradigms of post-critique that show critical thought to be a form of forever-deferred inaction. Beginning with an examination of the histories of critique and post-critique, this article unearths the extent to which a post-correlationist aesthetics appears in Infinite Jest , before turning to the ways in which philosophical and literary representations co…
Mere Reading
To read or not to read seems to be the great question for literary studies of our time. More specifically, in a world of abundant literary production, how can we decide what to read and how to read it? Three recent books by Amy Hungerford, Lee Clark Mitchell, and Nicholas Thoburn have, in their own ways, turned to this problem. Certainly, these are not the only titles to pursue this question of reading in the digital age. Other works on this them…
Reading Very Well for Our Age
In recent years, the practices of symptomatic reading have been called into question by scholars such as Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg, Rita Felski and Bruno Latour. It is claimed that such reading has become either formulaic or politically inefficacious. This article argues, against such thinking, that Emily St. John Mandel’s Arthur C. Clarke award–winning novel Station Eleven (2014) presents several challen…
Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers
“Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer review and charge for their publishing services but do not, in fact, actually perform such reviews. Most prominently exposed in recent years by Jeffrey Beall, the phenomenon garners much media attention. In this article, we acknowledge that such practices are deceptive but then examine, across a variety of stakeholder groups, what th…
The Great Automatic Grammatizator
What does it mean when we say that computers can 'write' and how are recent developments in neural networks and machine learning changing this capacity? This article examines the long-standing literary fear of authorship being replaced by machines while also interrogating the labour and credit implications that sit behind widely used structures of authorship in a technological age. The argument makes reference to one work of computer-generated wr…
Stefano Ercolino, The Maximalist Novel
Close Reading with Computers
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct 'authors' using anything above the nineteen most-common words. This has implications for understandings of literary style and authorship. The seafaring parts of Mitch…
You have to keep track of your changes
In 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into the US edition of the text. When the process was resumed at Random House under the editorial guidance of …
The Open-Source Everything Manifesto
What is there not to like about “openness”? The premise seems to have virtue, particularly in the space of critique of government. From totalitarianism through to oligarchies, it can be argued that it is opacity and secrecy that have contributed to abuses of power for many centuries. In other spaces, the notion has caught hold. In several scientific fields, it appears that a lack of openness can lead to misconduct and in some cases a slowness tha…
Keep writing
Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is a novel that can be situated, aesthetically, within the traditions of utopian fiction and the North American encyclopaedic, postmodern novel. It is also, however, a text that is exemplary of a type of didacticism that cloaks its mechanism behind an overloaded structure. One of the explicit targets of this didacticism is the neo-liberal university that, in 2666, is structurally twinned with the police department and is thu…
“Structural Dissatisfaction”
Jennifer Egan’s acclaimed 2010 novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad , is a text populated by a disproportionately high number of, often unfulfilled, postgraduate researchers: “I’m in the PhD program at Berkeley”, proclaims Mindy; “Joe, who hailed from Kenya [...] was getting his PhD in robotics at Columbia”; “Bix, who’s black, is spending his nights in the electrical-engineering lab where he’s doing his PhD research”; while only Rebecca “was an aca…
Opening the Open Library of Humanities
It is never a good time to start a new journal. Even so, 1987 seems unpropitious to a remarkable degree. The academic world in general feels itself to be under attack. The Humanities in particular feel marginalized and underfunded. Outwardly querulous, inwardly riven, they sense themselves to be hopelessly at odds with a culture which has long abandoned any recognition of the value of their role. Connoisseurs of the Unripe Time could be forgiven …
Some Kind of Thing It Aint Us but Yet Its in Us
This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban's philosophical perspectives and Mitchell's inter-textual genre-impersonation practice, the article assesses the degree to which Mitchell's metatextual methods indicate a nostalgia for by-gone radical aesthetics rather than reaching for new modes of its own. …
Utopia Fading
It is fairly commonly known, in certain circles, that open access comes in different 'flavours'. 1 Besides the well-known adage of Richard Stallman that there are multiple types of freedom that can be divided into gratis and libre ('free' as in 'beer' as opposed to 'free' as in 'speech'), the ways in which we provide access to material that is free in either sense are also plural. 2 This piece, consisting of two parts, will give the historical ba…
Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
A review of Belfiore, Eleonora, and Anna Upchurch, eds., Humanities in the Twenty-first Century: Beyond Utility and Markets (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 256pp. $27.00
Whose line is it anyway
This piece effects a critical revision of the interactions between late Foucault and the works of Thomas Pynchon through the theme of Enlightenment, a relationship far more nuanced than granted by current appraisals. Examining resistance, revolution, and the critical attitude alongside a focus on the Foucauldian sphere of ethics, this work posits Pynchon's negative and positive utopianism as a regulative idea. Reading both Pynchon's fiction and h…
The Viva
Martin Paul Eve's "The Viva" offers a personal and reflective account of his PhD viva voce examination experience. He details the anxiety and stress leading up to the defense, the process of the examination itself, and the immediate aftermath of passing without corrections. While primarily a narrative of a personal milestone, the piece also touches upon the broader academic context of the viva as a culminating event in doctoral studies
Close Reading with Computers
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct 'authors' using anything above the nineteen most-common words. This has implications for understandings of literary style and authorship. The seafaring parts of Mitch…
You have to keep track of your changes
In 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into the US edition of the text. When the process was resumed at Random House under the editorial guidance of …
Reading Very Well for Our Age
In recent years, the practices of symptomatic reading have been called into question by scholars such as Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg, Rita Felski and Bruno Latour. It is claimed that such reading has become either formulaic or politically inefficacious. This article argues, against such thinking, that Emily St. John Mandel’s Arthur C. Clarke award–winning novel Station Eleven (2014) presents several challen…
Some Kind of Thing It Aint Us but Yet Its in Us
This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban's philosophical perspectives and Mitchell's inter-textual genre-impersonation practice, the article assesses the degree to which Mitchell's metatextual methods indicate a nostalgia for by-gone radical aesthetics rather than reaching for new modes of its own. …
Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment . Edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. 1st ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 (first print: 1944). (p. 30) Featured image by ChrisM70 under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011 was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on December 02, 2011
Whose line is it anyway
This piece effects a critical revision of the interactions between late Foucault and the works of Thomas Pynchon through the theme of Enlightenment, a relationship far more nuanced than granted by current appraisals. Examining resistance, revolution, and the critical attitude alongside a focus on the Foucauldian sphere of ethics, this work posits Pynchon's negative and positive utopianism as a regulative idea. Reading both Pynchon's fiction and h…
The Viva
Martin Paul Eve's "The Viva" offers a personal and reflective account of his PhD viva voce examination experience. He details the anxiety and stress leading up to the defense, the process of the examination itself, and the immediate aftermath of passing without corrections. While primarily a narrative of a personal milestone, the piece also touches upon the broader academic context of the viva as a culminating event in doctoral studies
Utopia Fading
It is fairly commonly known, in certain circles, that open access comes in different 'flavours'. 1 Besides the well-known adage of Richard Stallman that there are multiple types of freedom that can be divided into gratis and libre ('free' as in 'beer' as opposed to 'free' as in 'speech'), the ways in which we provide access to material that is free in either sense are also plural. 2 This piece, consisting of two parts, will give the historical ba…
Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
A review of Belfiore, Eleonora, and Anna Upchurch, eds., Humanities in the Twenty-first Century: Beyond Utility and Markets (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 256pp. $27.00
Some Kind of Thing It Aint Us but Yet Its in Us
This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban's philosophical perspectives and Mitchell's inter-textual genre-impersonation practice, the article assesses the degree to which Mitchell's metatextual methods indicate a nostalgia for by-gone radical aesthetics rather than reaching for new modes of its own. …
“Structural Dissatisfaction”
Jennifer Egan’s acclaimed 2010 novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad , is a text populated by a disproportionately high number of, often unfulfilled, postgraduate researchers: “I’m in the PhD program at Berkeley”, proclaims Mindy; “Joe, who hailed from Kenya [...] was getting his PhD in robotics at Columbia”; “Bix, who’s black, is spending his nights in the electrical-engineering lab where he’s doing his PhD research”; while only Rebecca “was an aca…
Opening the Open Library of Humanities
It is never a good time to start a new journal. Even so, 1987 seems unpropitious to a remarkable degree. The academic world in general feels itself to be under attack. The Humanities in particular feel marginalized and underfunded. Outwardly querulous, inwardly riven, they sense themselves to be hopelessly at odds with a culture which has long abandoned any recognition of the value of their role. Connoisseurs of the Unripe Time could be forgiven …
You have to keep track of your changes
In 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into the US edition of the text. When the process was resumed at Random House under the editorial guidance of …
The Open-Source Everything Manifesto
What is there not to like about “openness”? The premise seems to have virtue, particularly in the space of critique of government. From totalitarianism through to oligarchies, it can be argued that it is opacity and secrecy that have contributed to abuses of power for many centuries. In other spaces, the notion has caught hold. In several scientific fields, it appears that a lack of openness can lead to misconduct and in some cases a slowness tha…
Keep writing
Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is a novel that can be situated, aesthetically, within the traditions of utopian fiction and the North American encyclopaedic, postmodern novel. It is also, however, a text that is exemplary of a type of didacticism that cloaks its mechanism behind an overloaded structure. One of the explicit targets of this didacticism is the neo-liberal university that, in 2666, is structurally twinned with the police department and is thu…
Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers
“Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer review and charge for their publishing services but do not, in fact, actually perform such reviews. Most prominently exposed in recent years by Jeffrey Beall, the phenomenon garners much media attention. In this article, we acknowledge that such practices are deceptive but then examine, across a variety of stakeholder groups, what th…
The Great Automatic Grammatizator
What does it mean when we say that computers can 'write' and how are recent developments in neural networks and machine learning changing this capacity? This article examines the long-standing literary fear of authorship being replaced by machines while also interrogating the labour and credit implications that sit behind widely used structures of authorship in a technological age. The argument makes reference to one work of computer-generated wr…
Stefano Ercolino, The Maximalist Novel
Close Reading with Computers
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct 'authors' using anything above the nineteen most-common words. This has implications for understandings of literary style and authorship. The seafaring parts of Mitch…
Reading Very Well for Our Age
In recent years, the practices of symptomatic reading have been called into question by scholars such as Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg, Rita Felski and Bruno Latour. It is claimed that such reading has become either formulaic or politically inefficacious. This article argues, against such thinking, that Emily St. John Mandel’s Arthur C. Clarke award–winning novel Station Eleven (2014) presents several challen…
Mere Reading
To read or not to read seems to be the great question for literary studies of our time. More specifically, in a world of abundant literary production, how can we decide what to read and how to read it? Three recent books by Amy Hungerford, Lee Clark Mitchell, and Nicholas Thoburn have, in their own ways, turned to this problem. Certainly, these are not the only titles to pursue this question of reading in the digital age. Other works on this them…
Reassembling Scholarly Communications
A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies. The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-reviewed research work—to use the power of the internet to duplicate material at an infinitesimal cost-per-copy. In this volume, contributors show that open access does not exist in a technological or…
In-sight
Reflecting about 1.1. In-sight (2010)
Virus
Reflecting about 2.1. Virus (2011)
Equivocationary Horseshit
This article argues that David Foster Wallace’s writing can profitably be understood within paradigms of post-critique that show critical thought to be a form of forever-deferred inaction. Beginning with an examination of the histories of critique and post-critique, this article unearths the extent to which a post-correlationist aesthetics appears in Infinite Jest , before turning to the ways in which philosophical and literary representations co…
Warez
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly…
The Future of the Open Library of Humanities
As the Open Library of Humanities reaches its fifth birthday, this editorial reflects on the future strategic direction for the platform
Introduction
An introduction to the special collection "The Abolition of the University"
The African-American Novel
This post forms part of my '[aspects of the novel](/2022/01/04/aspects-of-the-novel/)' collection. Please do note that these entries, which may appear basic, are simply my own notes on the subject. They implicitly or explicitly describe a canon not of my own making or choosing and replicate this from various sources. The original encyclopaedia articles are far more comprehensive, nuanced and worth consulting.
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