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As the countdown to 2024 begins, here's a recap of some of the books #openhumanitiespress has published in 2023. Beginning with this from January:
Data Farms, ed. by Tsvetelina Hristova, Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter.
Like all OHP books, Data Farms is available #openaccess:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/data-farms/
What's at stake in naming #datacentres as #datafarms. These installations are essentially hangars packed with #computers. They congregate #servers, switches and wires that facilitate the storage, processing and transmission of #data in high volumes and at fast speeds. Data centres present a scale of operations, potentially planetary in scope, that intensifies and multiplies the productive and extractive capacities of #digitaltechnologies.
The economic advantages to parties with servers in these installations derive not only from opportunities for networking but also from inputs to client machines that may be situated at vast distance. Yet data centres have precise locations...
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Electronic Book Review have just published Manuel Portela's Writing as a Life Form: A Review of Richard Zenith’s Pessoa: A Biography (2021).
Extract: 'For Fernando Pessoa, as for the roughly 600 texts that make up his Book of Disquiet, and the estimated 136 homonyms that Pessoa inhabits in his own writing, there "is life, and there is writing, and they must remain immiscible." ...
What is it like to live non-narratively?... Not necessarily through the chaotic dissolution of a unified consciousness, but through a surplus of subjectivity, by a relentless multiplication of possibilities.'
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