Yet again networks
There are many things that were really great in Lyon. There was seeing old friends again – for sure, that counts a lot. But there was also seeing a really interdisciplinary lab in action (the IXXI),...
View ArticleWhat is German, what is French
The schizophrenic situation of having somehow a French hemisphere and a German one sometimes leads me to awkward contradictions. On the one hand, my mother tongue and culture, the whole system in which...
View ArticleCircling
I have been extremely lucky within the last (almost) two years since I started my digital edition. Even if things took what felt at times like an eternity to take shape, I have benefited from in-depth...
View ArticleTotality and fragmentation (2): digital (and english)
My last post contained the conference report written (in German) by the M.A. student Janine Katins on the conference “Ganzheit und Fragmentierung”. It discussed several literary or philosophical works,...
View ArticleHorizon 2026
Yesterday, we had a guest in the person of Peter Stadler, who came to present the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe and talk about technicalities and general DH philosophy. It is always interesting,...
View ArticleEncoding IS conceptualizing (non, je ne lâche pas la proie pour l’ombre)
I have been faced lately – in several forms – with the reproach that the intense work on my digital edition prevents me to do what I should actually be doing, e.g. interpreting and conceptualizing....
View ArticleWorkflow intricacy
Anna is now on parental leave, but I had the amazing opportunity to have her replacement financed for one year by the German Research Foundation (that is family-friendliness!). It is Julia Doborosky...
View ArticleSpring, disillusion and something like zen
The new semester began yesterday and it already feels like it has been months. I spent those two days struggling to get some actual work done – I succeeded for about 3 hours, which is not so bad. I...
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People who like seeing mice in the subway
Since I have been fairly untrue to this blog over the past week(s), I took a quick look at the keywords that drive most readers here. The quick look turned out to be edifying. “Interesting blogs on...
View ArticleWhat’s new on the web
I have been announcing it for months, it is there at last: our new interface! There are still a few details to be improved (the rollover with names poping up on the authors’ pictures or the new favicon...
View ArticleAdd New
Seldom (maybe never) has it felt such a relief to open hypotheses.org as it is tonight. Weeks of forced blogging abstinence, rushing ahead without looking left and right, with the edition seemingly...
View ArticleL as in Long Time (though semi-long would also do for the time being)
The one thing I have been missing for months (together with having more text online, please, please, please) was the feeling of having a clear plan. The more I have to present myself with a vision, the...
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What tops the cake
Summer is officially over (in terms of school break, hence vacation, it definitely is), although it still feels like Australia in December. Now that we are sweating properly, it is time to sweat...
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Texts without a genre, automatized translations and a diplomat called...
There are novelties all over the place in our digital edition and I had no idea about it! Yes, I have finally reached the blessed state in which I can’t seem to keep up with the rhythm of new features...
View ArticleA nail in the wall
I know only too well of all the corpora and features that we have still not fully realized (or even not yet begun to work on) for the edition, although they were initially conceived as primary goals. I...
View ArticleOn 15 Months of Clock-Ticking, and Writing
I would not have thought that 15 months before the group’s funding ends would feel as if a nuclear bomb was about to explode. It is time to wrap things up. The doctoral positions end in November ’14,...
View ArticleKnowing what to look for (and at)
It has been a problem of our digital edition for about a year now, that the new interface, as cute as it is, is conceived for a much bigger amount of corpus than we now have. And whether with the...
View ArticleAcronym headache (a new way of scholarly poetry)
Who would have thought that it would take me such inner energy to settle on an acronym for my ERC proposal? Certainly not me two months, when everything had to be written and all I had was an acronym...
View ArticleRoll on, wrap up, get there
The to-do list now fits on a page. Of course, I have to actualize here and there, add and strike and add and strike regularly. But all in all, it fits on one A5 page: 2 volumes, 3 papers, 1 grant...
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“this edition” off to closure
One of the first categories I introduced on this blog was “this edition”, because the blog was originally conceived to “accompany” the realization of Letters and Texts. Over the last months, I have...
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