Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Anahid Kassabian
We can’t hear ourselves think over all this music, warns David Revill

We can’t hear ourselves think over all this music, warns David Revill

Richard Follett on slavery and the power of literacy

Source: AlamyFat is a timely issueScientists studying an exotic fish have made a key discovery about the protective coating for nerve fibres that, in humans, is vital for everyday activities such as...

Edge Hill scholar turns a queer eye on ageing

Canadian researchers call for volte-face on global funding trend

American poet Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010), the partner of Allen Ginsberg for more than 40Â years, was himself a major Beat Generation figure

I am sure that lots of academics are asked to comment on book proposals for publishers from time to time – but what are the ethics of this process? For me, naturally one hates to do somebody else’s...

Music schools and graduates read financial notices and strike fresh notes

United StatesSTEM cell aims to raise standardsAn organisation representing 62 elite US universities has selected eight members to serve as project sites for a five-year initiative aimed at improving...

A leading historian of revolutionary France who helped to create the University of Sussex has died

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Andy Westwood on the shift from ‘human’ to ‘intellectual’ capital

Limiting hours would lift the burden on women, says Sally Feldman

Michael Billig on the weaknesses of a discipline’s usage

Women in scienceThey’re gone – but why and where?The Lords Science and Technology Committee is to carry out an inquiry into why so many women drop out of academic science. Its notice announcing the...