“Every morning you climb several flights of stairs, enter your study, open the French doors, and slide your desk and chair out into the middle of the air. The desk and chair…
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A (digital) reformulation of Islamic pasts
July 10, 2024
Among the reactions to my book A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, one that stands out especially concerns ChatGPT. The large language model software application has been much in the…
July 10, 2024
Experimental books
Shahzad Bashir’s invitation to plurality
July 10, 2024
When I first taught Shahzad Bashir’s interactive book, A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, my students found it disorienting. Even though the book is organized in seven chapters and follows…
July 10, 2024
Experimental books
An invitation to imagine Islam anew
July 10, 2024
It begins with coffee cups. The cover of Shahzad Bashir’s A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures features Lara Baladi’s The Rose, a digital collage of photographs of coffee cups with…
July 10, 2024
Experimental books
A new vision for scholarly publishing: Access, agency, impact
July 10, 2024
Let me begin with an overview of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP), which originated from conversations with the Mellon Foundation in 2014 about advancing the production and recognition of long-form born-digital scholarly…
July 10, 2024
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The future of us
July 3, 2024
Audio from the last in-person meeting of A Knausgaard Reading and Writing Collective
July 3, 2024
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