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f british fiction did change across this span of sixty years and many of the differences we observe in the era s literary geographic attention are genuinely important but when we work at scale it s very difficult to locate on or about moments of sudden change across whole ranges of texts we see instead situations of influence and drift or and this is the rub we find true ruptures only between corpora built around differing principles the latter case comparing corpora assembled to emphasize difference is the one that resembles most closely the way in which modernist studies built its canons those canons and the practices they embed aren t simply errors but they are deliberately and systematically nonrepresentative of large scale literary history modernist literary critics would do well to grapple with that fact more directly than we often have there s a lot more in the article and the underlying code and data are freely available check it out ours thanks to the noveltm group where we first workshopped the paper to stephen ross who offered helpful feedback on the manuscript and to the neh which supported our work via a grant to the textual geographies project july 18 2018 matthew wilkens leave a comment books i read in 2017 and 2016 and 2015 it s been checks calendar hangs head three years since i last did one of these i am slack as ever i enjoy hearing about what other people are reading so i figure that the least i can do is share alike here s the fiction only that s kept me busy since the start of 2015 other posts in this series go back to 2009 fyi links are to amazon but aren t affiliates beatty paul the sellout 2015 enjoyed this a lot though i don t think i could teach it blixen karen out of africa 1937 not sure why i decided to close this particular gap this year burroughs william s naked lunch 1959 tested my patience cole teju open city 2011 wonder if i might pair this with jenny offill s dept of speculation short experimental new york the next time i do the contemporary u s fiction class ferrante elena my brilliant friend 2011 wasn t moved the way that others seem to have been fruhlinger josh the enthusiast 2015 a friend s first novel genuinely good hawkins paula the girl on the train 2015 wasn t gripped by it heti sheila how should a person be 2010 serious question when did art monster become a thing james marlon a brief history of seven killings 2014 very good but you don t need me to tell you that july miranda the first bad man 2015 really liked this king lily euphoria 2014 i remember liking this though not much else about it klay phil redeployment 2014 ditto lethem jonathan amnesia moon 1995 a lot of dystopias these last few years not crazy about that though i am apparently a slow learner of my own tastes mandel emily st john station eleven 2014 see lethem mantel hilary the assassination of margaret thatcher 2014 one of two story collections with klay i usually prefer novels but man is mantel good marr andrew head of state 2014 enjoyably trashy mccarthy cormac the road 2006 see lethem mccarthy tom satin island 2015 i preferred remainder but perfectly serviceable murray paul the mark and the void 2015 the metafiction eventually wore thin for me nguyen viet thanh the sympathizer 2015 about as good as everyone says ortberg mallory texts from jane eyre 2014 god i miss the toast price richard clockers 1992 couple of decades late to this party sorry to have missed it for so long pym barbara excellent women 1952 damn you mallory ortberg i will read literally anything you tell me to robinson marilynne gilead 2004 the best thing i ve read in years how many years a decade at least i think robinson marilynne housekeeping 1980 not as good as gilead but still awfully good saunders george lincoln in the bardo 2017 technically interesting left me a little flat surprising given how much i enjoy his short fiction stout rex fer de lance 1934 see figure 5 vandermeer jeff annihilation 2014 looking forward to his visit to notre dame this year whitehead colson the underground railroad 2016 other than zone one the best thing of his since the intuitionist yamashita karen tei i hotel 2010 left me cold i tried kindle samples of another couple of dozen novels some that i d like to come back to eventually fwiw i do almost all my reading on a screen of one sort or another no frickin deckle edge numbers 30 books in three years not going to win any awards 13 by women 17 by men mostly americans for professional reasons though it s a mug s game to divvy them up in detail none that i hated maybe two or three that i read more from obligation than desire and handful that were full on great the robinson was the real standout first up in 2018 is julian gracq s a balcony in the forest or helen phillips s the beautiful bureaucrat or something else you never know january 8 2018 matthew wilkens leave a comment visualizing geographic intensity i ve been thinking recently about how to visualize the distribution of geographic attention there are a bunch of ways to do this of course no one of which is categorically correct it depends on what you re trying to capture but a typical approach for me has been to use a bubblemap with marker areas corresponding to the number of times a specific location is mentioned in a collection of texts a couple of examples london locations nations since the markers are transparent you get a sense of the density as the fill color builds toward fully opaque there are other ways you might try to capture aspects of this problem heatmaps are an obvious idea something like this cool but sadly defunct map of world touristy ness based on geotagged photos one thing that s tricky about heatmaps is that by convention dark areas represent low values and light areas represent high values that works well when layered over dark basemaps as above but less well over light ones the dark edges suggest a stark boundary where in fact there is none and i really want to use light basemaps since dark ones reproduce poorly in print anyway you can fight convention of course and use a light to dark colormap i ll show a version of that approach below but i also came across a great post from agile scientific that discussed two other methods contour lines and hillshading both familiar to anyone who has used a topographic map here s agile s result showing the seabed off nova scotia neat ok so how would it look with the london data from the very first map above here are a few possibilities clockwise from top left bubblemap heatmap heatmap with contour lines and hillshading and bubblemap with contour lines but no hillshading these visualizations emphasize different aspects of the data the bubblemaps are good for identifying the specific locations in question the heatmap alone highlights areas of highest density the hillshaded map reminds me of the z axis project though tuned to be less peaky which the z axis tool also allows and without the tricky basemap transformation i maybe like the bubblemap with contours version best since it allows you to see the specific locations and a representative density distribution at the same time but i have to admit that despite having spent a couple of days playing with this i m not finally convinced that i ve found something broadly better for my purposes than the bubblemap with which i began i worry in particular about mixing cartographic conventions most people probably won t be confused about london but what about those who don t know that city or somewhere less familiar do the contours add enough interpretive value to be worth the need to overcome their association with physical elevation i suppose the answer depends on context in any case this was a fun exercise there s code and sample data available on github if you want to try it yourself or see how the maps were made fwiw these images depend on the standard python data science stack via anaconda in my case plus the cartopy package for mapping operations and mapbox tiles for the basemap it would be interesting to translate the output format into something interactive probably in leaflet via folium or something which i ve used in the past a task for another day though i d be grateful to know how others deal with dual output intents i ve prioritized print with the static maps here but it would be nice to flip a switch and get both update speaking of good uses of heatmaps have a look at oxford s roadless forest project global map of accessibility shows travel times to the nearest city with a population over 50 000 cool pretty interactive and analytically useful january 2 2018 matthew wilkens 2 comments cultural analytics 2017 wrap up the 2017 cultural analytics symposium took place at notre dame on may 26 and 27 a thousand thanks to everyone involved from speakers and respondents to audience members organizers and funders i had a great time met new people and learned a bunch there are now videos of the talks available from the symposium site as well as a youtube playlist of the full event quality is a little scratchy but generally serviceable finally a few follow ups from participants howard and kenton rambsy wrote a series of great blog posts about several of the talks including a condensed version of their own emphasizing the ways that computational methods might extend work in african american literary studies and ted underwood posted a version of his talk with a link to data and code on his site i m sure there are others that i ve missed so if you ve written about the event drop me a line and i ll add a link here thanks again to one and all i m excited to get back to work june 5 2017 matthew wilkens leave a comment cultural analytics symposium at notre dame on may 26 and 27 notre dame is hosting cultural analytics 2017 a symposium devoted to new research in the fields of computational and data intensive cultural studies combining methods and insights from computer science and the quantitative social sciences with questions central to the interpretive humanities the event explores some of the most compelling contemporary interdisciplinary work in a rigorous collegial environment the symposium is free and open to the public for details including registration schedule and the full lineup of intimidatingly great speakers see the cultural analytics 2017 site hope to see you there may 8 2017 matthew wilkens ca2017 leave a comment neh grant for textual geographies project i m pleased to announce that the textual geographies project has been awarded a 325 000 digital humanities implementation grant from the national endowment for the humanities i m hugely grateful for the neh s generous support and for previous startup funding from the acls and from the notre dame office of research i m excited to work with project partners at notre dame at the hathitrust research center and around the world the grant will support further development of a web based front end for the enormous amount of textual geographic data that the project has already generated as well as ongoing improvements to the data collection process new research using that data and several events to engage scholars and members of the public who are interested in geography history literature and the algorithmic study of culture i ll also be hiring a project postdoc for the 2017 19 academic years more information on all these fronts in the months ahead february 12 2017 matthew wilkens postdoc in computational textual geography update the position has been filled i m very pleased that dan sinykin will be joining our group next year as a postdoctoral fellow i m seeking a postdoctoral fellow for a two year appointment to work on aspects of the textual geographies project and to collaborate on research of mutual interest in my lab in the department of english at notre dame the ideal candidate will have demonstrated expertise in literary or cultural studies machine learning or natural language processing and geographic or spatial analysis as well as a willingness to work in new areas the fellow will contribute to the ongoing work of the textual geographies project an neh funded collaboration between literary scholars historians geographers and computer scientists to map and analyze geographic references in more than ten million digitized volumes held by the hathitrust digital library areas of current investigation include machine learning for toponym disambiguation named entity recognition in book length texts visualization of uncertainty in geospatial data sets and cultural and economic analysis of large scale multinational literary geography we welcome applications from candidates whose research interests might expand the range of our existing projects as well as from those whose expertise builds on our present strengths interdisciplinary collaboration with other groups at notre dame is possible the fellow will also have access to the text mining the novel project which has helped to underwrite the position apply details and application via interfolio free letters not required for initial stage review begins immediately and continues until position is filled salary 50 000 year plus research stipend initial appointment for one year renewable for a second year subject to satisfactory progress teaching possible but not required february 12 2017 matthew wilkens leave a comment revolution my book revolution the event in postwar fiction is out with johns hopkins university press ok it s been out since october but still i m really excited about it below is the description from jhup s site and i have a related post 5 things you might not know about fifties fiction on their blog as well in brief the book is about how one set of literary and cultural forms displaces another especially as that process played out in the united states after world war ii want to know why fifties fiction is full of rambling allegories and why no one writes like jack kerouac or what those facts have to do with the french revolution or the invention of quantum mechanics you ve come to the right place there s a preview of the book available via google should you be so inclined you can buy the thing directly from the press via amazon or wherever fine literary critical monographs are sold want to review it the press has your hook up here s a fuller description of project socially politically and artistically the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century still tied to the problems and orders of the victorian era and gilded age and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties in revolution matthew wilkens argues that postwar fiction functions as a fascinating model of revolutionary change uniting literary criticism cultural analysis political theory and science studies revolution reimagines the years after world war ii as at once distinct from the decades surrounding them and part of a larger scale series of rare revolutionary moments stretching across centuries focusing on the odd 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