THE HUMANITIES AS CONTRADICTION: AGAINST THE NEW ENCLOSURES

The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures

This essay begins by surveying our current moment in the humanities, diagnosing the language of crisis that frames much of the discourse about them.It argues that the crisis is a manufactured economic one not a symbolic one.The problems with many recent proposals—such as the new aestheticism, surface reading, and postcritique—is that th

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Making an Open Information Literacy Textbook

Springboarding from a statewide initiative, four academic librarians from three different universities collaborated to create an openly licensed textbook on the Pressbooks platform that could be easily embedded into one-shots or general education research courses.The project developed over the span of a Ladies Accessories year, which included: plan

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