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Soft estate
Full text linkMy book chapter 'Soft Estate' is a contribution to In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway, of which I am also a co-editor and author of the foreword. In the Company of Ghosts explores the poetics of a motorway system where romance and squalor, the personal and the political, private interests and public space collide. The poetics of the motorway are bound up with our sense of the decline of 'the modern' as it reflects back the fallibility of our plans and dreams. This book brings together artists, poets, writers and thinkers who have responded in diverse ways to the motorway and its environs. Interspersing poetry, analysis, commentary and fiction, it reflects the contradictory nature of a motorway system that gives us an unintended self-portrait of a carbon-driven society.
My chapter unpacks some of the subliminal ways in which 18th-century values of land ownership, enclosure and the subsequent aestheticizing of land both within and outside these confines still informs our high speed consumption of horizons and the contested nature of these borderlands seen through the car window at speed. The book invites readers to 'Stop, Look and Listen' to the unnoticed worlds in this territory.
The book was launched as part of the London Literature Festival at the Poetry Library on London's South Bank in July 2012 and followed by a related symposium at Beaconsfield involving Will Alsop, David Lawrence, performance poet Jennifer Cooke and myself, chaired by Naomi Siderfin and recorded with a live audience and placed online. To accompany the event, Beaconsfield produced a small edition of 30 road dust prints of Creeping Buttercup. Ranunculus repens. Road Dust M20. as part of their Flat Bed editions: http://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/imprint/artist-edition
In the company of ghosts: the poetics of the motorway
No full textCo-edited by artist Edward Chell and poet Andrew Taylor, In the Company of Ghosts explores the poetics of a motorway system where romance and squalor, the personal and the political, private interests and public space collide.
This book brings together artists, poets, writers and thinkers who have responded in diverse ways to the motorway and its environs. Interspersing poetry, analysis, commentary and fiction, this book reflects the contradictory nature of a motorway system which gives us an unintended self-portrait of a carbon driven society.
In the last fifty years, motorways have ploughed through the British landscape, changed the way it looks and changed the way we look at and experience our surroundings - through the window at speed. This book invites readers to stop, look and listen to the unnoticed worlds in this territory.
Contributors include Will Alsop, Ian Sinclair, Joe Moran Stephen Daniels, Elizabeth Cowie, Professor Malcolm Andrews, The Reverend John Davies and David Lawrence
Everyone on deck!
Full text linkTransports of Delight assembles art works that focus our attention on a sealed box of wood and glass, a carrier of living plants, a miniature biosphere, a device so humble in appearance that it has at times induced an incredulity that it should merit so much attention. Historians, however, recognise the environmental, geopolitical and aesthetic significance of the Wardian case. Luke Keogh argues that this single invention ‘changed the world’: it participated in a vast transfer by ship of plants, people, insects, soil, microbes and pathogens that terraformed vast tracks of the Earth, contributing to ecological disasters and climatic destabilisations, but also producing new pockets of biodiversity. In the decades between its invention in 1829 to its eventual replacement in the early twentieth century, the Wardian case increased exponentially the capacity of European colonial powers to transport much sought after plants and transplant them into new soils, where they were cultivated to produce raw materials and commodities that accelerated the expansion of empire and enabled the accumulation of vast profits in the colonial metropoles
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Eclipse
Full text linkEclipse is an artist's book relating to the installation of 60 hand-made gesso panels. The project has evolved from my continuing exploration of motorway verge landscapes, and their flora and ecology, which significantly overlap with the plant life in King's Wood in Kent.
The book aims to play both on and with the genre of field guide or 'I Spy' book, building on the exhibition theme while also existing autonomously. The exhibited plant images, which exist in a territory between scientific observation and lyrical portraiture, are intended to seem both familiar, almost humdrum, and richly exotic in their variety and complexity. The book could be used as a straightforward aid to identification for both those familiar with King's Wood and new visitors alike. The text opens up and elaborates on the subject of plant identification and classification systems. It investigates the silhouette from its 18th-century uses through early photography (e.g. Fox-Talbot's shadowgraphs) and beyond (Susan Derges, Adam Fuss), and the associated poetics of absence/presence implicit within this form. As monochrome silhouette portraits, the gesso panels relate both to Linnaean systems that provided a structure for much 18th-century thinking and discovery, and also the fugitive nature of the plants and environments themselves.
The publication of the book by Stour Valley Arts, Ashford, Kent, coincided both with the summer solstice and their annual summer event at Markus Lukacs site-specific woodland piece in an edition of 1000. The book has been supported both by the AHRC in kind and a grant from Arts Council England for £10,000.
The book contains a new essay by author and historian Jenny Uglow scrutinising the history and continuing significance of silhouette form. There is also an interview between curator Dan Howard-Birt and artist Edward Chell, unpicking his obsession with plants that grow in both conventional and unconventional places
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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