{"id":3164,"date":"2010-05-17T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2011-04-04T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T16:20:56","slug":"the-shape-of-things-to-come-%e2%80%94-rice-university-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3164","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Things to Come \u2014 Rice University Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rup.rice.edu\/shapeofthings\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/shapes-catalog1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerome McGann and Rice have published the Proceedings of <a href=\"http:\/\/rup.rice.edu\/shapeofthings\">The Shape of Things to Come \u2014 Rice University Press<\/a> in record time. <a href=\"http:\/\/shapeofthings.org\/\">The conference<\/a> took place in March and the essays are now up on line and coming out in print. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3084\">my blog entry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophi.ca\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShapeOfThings\">conference report<\/a> on the original conference.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCertain questions,\u201d Jerome McGann writes in his introduction, \u201care especially insistent: How do we sustain the life of these digitally-organized projects; how do we effectively address their institutional obstacles and financial demands; how do we involve the greater community of students and scholars in online research and publication; how do we integrate these resources with our inherited material and paper-based depositories; how do we promote institutional collaborations to support innovative scholarship; how do we integrate online resources, which are now largely dispersed and isolated, into a connected network?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My paper is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/content\/m34315\/latest\/\">As Transparent As Infrastructure<\/a>. I argued that there has been a turn to infrastructure as a way to get sustained funding for things, but that don&#8217;t really know what infrastructure is and we are tempted to turn into infrastructure things that are still being negotiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome McGann and Rice have published the Proceedings of The Shape of Things to Come \u2014 Rice University Press in record time. The conference took place in March and the essays are now up on line and coming out in print. (See my blog entry and conference report on the original conference.) \u201cCertain questions,\u201d Jerome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Shape of Things to Come \u2014 Rice University Press<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities-computing","category-markup-and-text-representation","category-media-and-news","category-online-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}