ajohnny:

towerofsleep:

tomewing:

Paper by Stephen Ramsay, found via the Stanley Fish article, making the case for serendipitous/chance-driven trails as an alternative to sense-making strategies such as canon-formation or algorithmic big data analysis.

I am colossally sympathetic to this and wish I’d read it sooner (it’s from 2010) - chimes w/stuff I’ve been writing about for ages (like this - from 10 years ago but describes ludic criticism nicely IMO)

Oh, thank God for this! If it weren’t for browsing I wouldn’t know about half of the things I like today — and my academic writing would totally suck. Not that it’s super-awesome to begin with, but still.

I wave this in the air outside Paley Library howling fund me to an absent god.