[Last week, it was my privilege to participate in an event celebrating the anniversary of centers and institutes that have...
I’m sharing here remarks I offered today at the 2022 DH Unbound conference. The occasion was a plenary roundtable honoring...
[Late last month, I was honored to deliver the annual James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education at Washington...
https://nowviskie.org/2021/cultural-memory-and-the-peri-pandemic-library/
[Congratulations to Melissa Terras and Paul Gooding on the publication of an important new collection of essays entitled Electronic Legal...
[The following is a brief talk I gave at the opening plenary of RBMS 2019, a meeting of the Rare...
[This is a cleaned-up version of the text from which I spoke at the 2019 conference of Research Libraries UK,...
I took a chance on a hackberry bowl at a farmer’s market—blue-stained and turned like a drop of water. It’s...
[What follows is the text of a talk I gave in two different contexts last week, as “Reconstitute the World:...
[Last weekend, I joined the inspiring, interdisciplinary Ecotopian Toolkit gathering hosted by Penn’s Program in Environmental Humanities. (How lucky was I? We even got...
Last night, the...
[Shannon Mattern’s wry observation that “speculative now seems to be the universal prefix” got me thinking about time and unpredictability, and reminded me...
https://nowviskie.org/2017/iv-coda-speculative-computing-2004/
January 20th has inaugurated the worst and longest case of writer’s block of my life. I hate to write, under...
[These are unedited remarks from the closing plenary of the 2016 DLF Forum, written about 15 minutes before it began,...
[This is the text of a talk I gave last week, as “Speculative Collections and the Emancipatory Library,” to close...
[While I’m cleaning up the text of a talk I gave at Harvard’s Hazen Symposium last week (see #HazenatHarvard or Merrilee’s...
This is the text of a presentation I made yesterday at a wonderful Columbia University symposium called Insuetude (still ongoing),...
[This is the draft of an invited contribution to a forum on “care” that will appear in Debates in the...
Ten years ago today, I lost the baby that might have come after my son, and not...
[This is the blended and edited text of two talks I gave last week. One, titled “On Capacity and Care,”...
[Here’s a cleaned-up version of brief remarks I made in a panel discussion on “Cultivating Digital Library Professionals,” at Tuesday’s...
[I recently had the pleasure of responding to a creative and beautifully grounded talk by Kevin Hamilton of the University...
I recently collaborated on a project a little outside the ordinary for me: a case study for a chapter in...
Thirteen years ago, I was a graduate student in English literature when the Twin Towers collapsed, a fireball erupted from...
[Cross-posted from the Re:Thinking blog at CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources, where I’m honored to serve as...
[This is a short talk I prepared for a panel discussion today with Brett Bobley, Ed Ayers, and Stephen Robertson,...
[This—more or less—is the text of a keynote talk I delivered last week in Atlanta, at the 2014 DLF Forum:...
[This post is re-published from an invited response to a February 2014 MediaCommons question of the week: “How can we better...
https://nowviskie.org/2014/neatline-and-visualization-as-interpretation/
[Cross-posted from the Re:Thinking blog at CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources, where I’m honored to be serving...
[Update: I’ve made low-res versions of my slides and an audio reading available for download on Vimeo, Alex Gil has...
I am deeply honored to have been invited to give a plenary lecture at this year’s Digital Humanities conference, planned...