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Monday, March 15, 2010
Steam Cleaning: The Valve Blogroll
Aaron’s recent post linked to the Arcade site at Stanford, which (my bad, no doubt) I hadn’t known about before, but which immediately struck me as something we ought to have in our blogroll here. That thought led me to take a closer look at the blogroll, and I promptly found a large number of sites that have moved or retired. We should update it! So, in the spirit of spring cleaning, I thought we could round up suggestions for other new(ish) academic / literary-critical / otherwise-Valve-appropriate sites. (Just what is “Valve-appropriate”? That’s a good question. Feel free to discuss that too. What do you come here for? What would you like to read more of? What do or should we do to keep up our own niche, whatever it is?)
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http://www.michaelbarrier.com/
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
Oh, one comment on “Valve appropriateness.” I first learned about The Valve back in 2005 during the Theory’s Empire book event. That, of course, was very much about the nature of the discipline itself. To the extent any set of topics is characteristic of The Valve, that set is. We should keep it going.
From way back at the start, the simplest thing I hoped for from the Valve and never got was the sort of intensive cross-posting which might reflect its author-list’s wide-ranging interests and opinions—a permanent carnival/marketplace. So I’m very happy about posts from Rohan and Aaron and Adam, and (despite his last comment and despite some of the attacks he’s received) about Bill’s attempts to toss in whatever strikes his fancy, and I’m very unhappy that Miriam and Scott and Daniel almost never exhibit their wares here. But it doesn’t take much to see that one little person’s hopes don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Here’s looking at you, kid.
Wait’ll you see an upcoming post, Ray, where I really let loose on a meta-issue that’s been bugging me.
Bill: I wonder if the discussion on another post about “where are the Theory superstars of today” suggests why the Theory’s Empire-type focus is harder to sustain: does it feel like that debate is, if not settled, at least over? Or, to put it another way, where’s the book that would provide a similar convergence of interest now?
I like your blogroll suggestions.
Ray, I feel the same about the other authors on the list. I have no idea why they don’t cross-post (or just post) here more, or at all.
Oh, I don’t necessarily want to continue with the Theory’s Empire discussions, but I do want to continue worrying the discipline itself.
The blogroll suggestions have been passed along to One With Editorial Powers.