Also for those curious, it takes this much type for even such a short text
Why are some pages in larger type than others, Ryan?—were you commenting on which passages are key to interpreting the text?
Yes, sure, of course—but also I realized I was going to run out of "o" if I didn’t do something. A text with so many instances of "technology" throws off the distribution
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If you’ve never read Le Guin’s "A Rant About 'Technology,'" take 10 minutes to do so—in many ways my whole research & pedagogical philosophy are wrapped up in this short, brilliant text—it’s usually day 1 reading in my classes https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
If you want to ask "How can I get one of these?" all I’ll say is "watch this space." We’ll probably take pre-orders & then produce the books, up to a pre-set limit—I’m still getting the infrastructure in place but will announce here & on Bluesky
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Folded & assembled proof sheets for Skeuomorph Press’ forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—a practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text—I set type for the book & fold-out poster
I’m still tinkering with ink & paper options & deciding about binding—but seeing it come together as a book made my heart leap—I am grateful to Le Guin’s estate for giving us permission to produce these
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Please share this CFP!
https://go.illinois.edu/BuildingaBookLabSymposiumCFP
We’re hosting a symposium 20-21 May 2025 at Skeuomorph Press on "Building Book Labs: Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History"—we’re looking for talks, discussion topics, & hands-on activities—& we especially welcome novel formats or session ideas. More at the link!
(Thus far) the symposium is co-sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, UIUC's Humanities Research Institute, UIUC's English Department, Skeuomorph Press & BookLab, & the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab.
As we were planning we learned that other colleagues around the continent were planning very similar events for the same time, so joined forces & now anticipate turning this into a symposium series that will run for 2-3 years at several institutions—more on those ambitions at the bottom of the CFP.
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Soft launch on a Friday afternoon, but I’m too excited to wait—we finally have a new database providing search & download access to the Viral Texts Project’s "speculative bibliographies" of C19 newspaper reprinting
Huge thanks to iSchool PhD student Daniel Evans for making the impossible possible!
https://viraltexts.org/2024/10/18/new-database/
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Y'ALL—I’ve been waiting anxiously for months for clearance to share & finally can!
Last spring, a media team from UIUC's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences spent a day at Skeuomorph Press working on a story about it for the college's magazine—in print now!—& filming this gorgeous video. The resulting video wonderfully captures the beauty of the materials we work with at the press. But most importantly to me, the video reflects our most ambitious hopes for the press in this community: to be a catalyst for novel research & teaching, but also to foster space for reflection, inquisitiveness, & contemplation.
As a bonus, you can see me & English undergrad Aaron M.—the founder of our Skeuomorphics club—interviewed in true History Channel style, fulfilling my dream to be a talking head. But seriously, I truly cannot say how delighted I am with how this came out. I'm delighted I can finally share more widely!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJG4_q7vcc
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This past year a team from Skeuomorph Press conducted a study of the "humanities makerlab movement," surveying spaces focused on everything from book arts to textiles to vintage computing—today we publish a whitepaper we hope will be just the 1st contribution to a larger set of projects
SHMLM sought to understand this movement in varied disciplinary and institutional contexts, to compare & contrast "humanities making" with STEM-focused varieties, & to provide a resource that will help the community organize & advocate—this is only a 1st step & we see much more to do in this vein.
We've published a post here:
https://skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/2024/09/27/surveying-the-humanities-makerlab-movement-whitepaper-published/
And the whitepaper at Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:69557/
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I will most certainly keep tinkering, but I think I have my fall "Intro to Digital Humanities" grad course sketched out
We’re going to do a lot less so we can hopefully dive more deeply into what we do
Thanks to all who contributed brilliant work, model syllabi, & advice
https://f24idh.ryancordell.org
The lab sessions, you will notice, are very far from fleshed out. Those get written, always, much closer to the pertinent class. I do finish syllabi early but I’m not that obsessive
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