Even though in my last post I tried to describe the movement towards “doing scholarship in public” that forms a background for three different levels of academic fights these days, it still seems sometimes like the “humanities is a waste of time” fight remains the most salient. After all, if one takes that waste of [...]
Continue reading about Cultural neuroscience to the rescue of us lost humanists?
This is, I imagine, the much shorter version of a post I have had simmering in my head for a few weeks now–or, well, actually, many of the issues dovetail with another post that’s been around since new years. But somehow I haven’t sat down to figure out my point rigorously yet, and so I [...]
Continue reading about Making this worth it by going to the streets
[UPDATED] In my last post, I showed how to install the biblatex package along with the MLA style rules for the bibliography and citing in MacTeX. In a later post, I’ll discuss how to roll your own biblatex styles (hint: it’s not that difficult). But for this post, I’m making the first gestures towards the [...]
Continue reading about Customizing MultiMarkdown to make Scrivener easier, part A
I’m still in the proposal state, in which I’m doing two things at once: writing a 18-page document that, among other things, covers in very sparse detail a bibliography of about 150 texts. So the first part of the Humanities Dissertation Project is to be able to write in Scrivener, build a bibliography in Zotero, [...]
