Jonathan Goodwin

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Curriculum Vitae

My Instructions

Adam Curtis's HyperNormalisation

Darko Suvin's Genres of Victorian SF Revisited

The Night Managers

Modeling Darko Suvin's Genres of Science Fiction

Bitcoin's Politics

Sleeping Beauties

One Hundred Topics (1700-1922)

Creating a Topic Browser of HathiTrust Data

Jobs of the MLA

James Risen's Pay Any Price

Org-mode LaTeX Export Issue

National Security

Citation Metrics

Some Notes on the MLA Job Information List

The Distribution of PhDs in Modernism/modernity

Decluttering Network Graphs

Film Studies Co-Citation Network

Creating a Chronological Slider

Thoughts on Twitter

The End of Breaking Bad

Citations to Women in Theory

Creating a Threshold Slider

Citational Network Graph of Literary Theory Journals

Interpreting Topics in Law and Economics

Recent Developments in Humanities Topic Modeling Matthew Jockers's Macroanalysis and the Journal of Digital Humanities

Topic Models and Highly Cited Articles Pierre Nora's Between Memory and History in Representations

Learning to Code

The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems

Two Topic Browsers

The Stronghold of Bioinformatics

Topics in Theory

Same Stuff, Different Graph

Visualizing Topics in ELH

Experimenting with Dynamic Topic Models

Creating Topic Models with JSTOR's Data for Research (DfR)

Two Critical Inquiry Topic Models

Topic Modeling Signs

Errol Morris’s A Wilderness of Error The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald

LibraryThing Ownership Relative to Total Sales

I Believe in (Joe Pantoliano as Teddy) Magyk

The Cabin in the Woods

A Review of Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story, by D. T. Max

Gustavo Fring, Businessman

Beginning Adventures in Topic Modeling

Continuing Adventures in Topic Modeling Infinite Jest

Breaking Bad and the Improbable

Jack Vance's To Live Forever

A Lake Martin Hawk

Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods A Review

Gene Wolfe as Apologist for Torture

Google Blacklist

Fanciful Etymologies

The Historical Novel

Murder Abstract

Thoughts on Waiting for The Pale King

Down And Out in Plano And Glendale

Rimbaud's Conte

Herodotus and Linguistic Essentialism

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom A Review

The Unpredictable Evolution of Technology

Failure and Shame Some Thoughts on Rhem 2

Some Surprising Remarks on Lem

Zizek and Facts

Mondale as Debater

Inception (2010)

Pynchon in Poland

A Review of Diary of a Very Bad Year Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

Peter Straub, A Dark Matter

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall

Steve Erickson's Tour of the Black Clock

The Swedish Model (on Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

Jagged Little, Brown (on David Lipsky's Memoir of David Foster Wallace)

Fyodorov and Soviet Cosmonautics

More on X-Men Essentials

Gene Wolfe's The Sorcerer's House, or, Why I Like Puzzle-Box Fiction

A LibraryThing Oddity

Banville's The Infinities

A Few Questions about DeLillo's Point Omega

A Review of Dual Transform

For My Commonplace Book

Empson on Joyce

Some Problems with The Wire

Mickey Mice Better Beware!

Mulholland Drive A Glance

The Wanton Student

A Brief Remark on Stephen King's Under the Dome

Um so schlimmer für die Tatsachen

On Being A Mac User

Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City

Perdition's Flames

Sartre's War Diary

Humphry Clinker

On Being Hacked

First Laws of Heroic Fantasy

Christine Brooke-Rose on Pound

The Discus of Odysseus

Running with the Devil

Private Midnight, A Novel by Kris Saknussemm

Study Guides for Contemporary British Literature, ca. 1921

Denis Johnson's Nobody Move

Gene Wolfe's Pirate Freedom

How Much Do You Know about McLuhan?

Dylan As Singer

On Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service

Web Transcription Perils

Map of the Interviews in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Shelby Foote's Standards

Wallace's Death Is Not the End

The Legal Memo as Literary Genre

Mardi Gras Ultimate

Most Inspired Credit Theme?

Some Continued Implausibilities in The Straw Men

Implausibilities in the Opening Scene of Straw Men, A Novel by Michael Marshall

Nuclear Factoid of the Day

On Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life

Another Outrage from the TLS

The Anti-Feminist Harangue in Lem's Fiasco

Cronenberg's Naked Lunch

Burn after Reading

A Witticism from Ursula Le Guin

Canadian Separatist Literature

On Interpretation

Lovecraft and Cantor

Another Brief Comment on Wallace

What You Can Learn about Gibbon When Researching Father Brown

Translations, Editing, Covers

Two Observations

The Shortest Distance between Two Pints Is A Strayed Lion

Thoughts on The Fifth Season of The Wire

More Trevor-Roper

John from Cincinnati

John Banville on M. R. James

The Second Half

La Maja desnuda

Some More Complaints about JSTOR; The NWE

Some Complaints about JSTOR

Descriptive Clause of the Week

The White Visitation

The Agents of Literacy

On No Country for Old Men, A Film by Joel and Ethan Coen

Trevor-Roper on Toynbee

Havelock Ellis on Oneiric Neologism

Punctuated Linguistic Evolution

The Modern Apocalypse

The Relative Frequency of Two Phrases from Mina Loy

Wyndham Lewis on de Sade

The Value of Teaching Literature

Locally Coextensive Properties

From Coetzee's Diary of A Bad Year, With Some Comments on James Wood's Review

Another View of 18th C North Carolina

Intent to Liveblog

The Black Dossier

Franny Had Been Assigned The Fourth Elegy

Mailer Goes Jogging with Ali

The Purdue Theory of Mind Conference

Hoplocrisma-spongus

On The Impossibility of Teaching Anecdote of The Jar

The Wire's Realism

Nad propastyu vo rzhi

The Gator Nation

Presented without Comment

Concluding Remark

Some Further Reflections on the Mayday Materials

An Unknown Source for Kafka's The Metamorphosis?

I N L A N D E M P I R E And Finance Capitalism

Some Amazon Data

John from Cincinnati Cancelled

On Sybil Shade's Vocabulary

The Lost Glove Is Happy

Incomplete Lists

Diotima's Dance to the Sea

Consumer Updates

The Antiquarian

Britt Hume under CIA Surveillance

L'homme qui rit

Stinking of the Lamp

A Proud Moment for the American Dental Association

Orson Welles in Malpertuis, A Film by Harry Kümel

DNA and Data Storage

From Seven Seconds or Less

Essay on Primer

King Vishvamitra

M. R. James and the Sibyl

Dreams and Memory

Some Teaching Notes

Caught up in the Action

Getting Down to Cases

The Common Towhee

The NSA in the Public Imagination

The Pastel City

Missed Our Local Inland Empire Screening

The Most Touching Spam

As Curtius Reminds Us

Satie's Gnossiennes Aren't Depressing

A Series of Trite Observations

What Keats Had in Mind

Don't Think You Know Better Than Haig

Even Ebert Nods

What You Didn't Know about Hitler

Prestige and Pynchon

What species of vectitation

Graduate Opacities of the Evening

Of The Minor Characters in Middlemarch

Success in Croaker Fishing; Lem's Chain of Chance

Delightful Wallpaper

Now is the Time

Mallarmé's Preface to Vathek

A Fine Anecdote

I Use The Book of Ephraim As An Oracle

Some of My People, Viewed by An Irascible Frenchman, A While Ago

Thomas Glover's Account of Virginia (1676)

Such Simple Pleasures

Subterranean Lost Blues

An Appreciating Literature Syllabus

House of Leaves, Some Thoughts

More Fun with the OED

CSI Miami's Real Economy

Things One Can Learn from Haldane

Remark from Havelock Ellis

The Living Klein Bottle House of Time

From the Department of Puzzling Hyperbole

Wrangling Schools

From the Diary of Harold Nicolson

John Sutherland--The Literary Detective

Bloch and Goldmann

The Burial Ground

The Live Action, Large Area, Alternate Reality Role-Playing Game

Wolfe's From the Cradle; The Obsolescence of the Gabelsberger Shorthand

Recreational Scholarship in Latin

All-Too-Brief Remarks on Gene Wolfe's Innocents Abroad

Marriage and Pistol Licenses

Wolfe's The Friendship Light

What Can Happen in the NBA Playoffs

Nowitzki Throws Stackhouse under Bus

R. C. Zaehner, Orientalist

Olaf Stapledon in the ODNB

Reflections on the Playoffs

My Expert First-Round NBA Playoff Predictions

The Previous War with Iran

Misdirected Panspermia, Perhaps

Sorel on Galileo

The War with Iran

A Worthwhile Question

I'm Glad to See

Sherrif Knows Best

Supplement to Cronenberg

The Recreated World A Research Question

Dear UK Readers

Some Brief Notes and Queries on Teaching Borges

Friday Poetry Fragment

Andrew Ward, FT Correspondent in Atlanta, Charming Cosmosophisticate

Perhaps It's Only Because I Went to School There

Quine's Digital Babel; Dennett on the Res Cogitans

Briefly Corrected

Borges on Kipling, Etc.

As a Satisfied Reader of David Kahn's

Heisenberg's Self-Stabilizing Reactor -- Item

More in the Way of Items

Favorite Sopranos Malapropism/Items

Historians and Critics

Repetition/Reading

Totality and the Genes of Literature

The Police in New York City

Moretti Event/A Misunderstanding

Thomas Frank Speaking Like A Southerner?

Cf. Wolfe's There Are Doors

Thorndike's Modesty

1926 Things Like This Tended to Happen--Why?

Book and Volume

Schrader's Dominion

Design and the Guide

It Starts with the Loss of a Semicolon

Football and Invention

Lynn Thorndike A Witticism

Jottings on Manovich

Peirce, An Odd Remark

Did You Put in the Bit about Being a Scientist?

New Review of A New Kind of Science

A Puzzle I Didn't Care for

Two Articles from the LRB

Telepathic Rumors of Jack London's Death Substantiated; Items

Books Read or Finished, Last Two Days

I'm Sure It's Old News

Imagine An America

One of Mr. G's Decans

Chuck Klosterman's Killing Yourself to Live

Moral Hazard, Risk, and Teleological Ethics

Complaint about Social Bookmarking; Interesting Book; Why I Am Waiting on Something Available for a Macintosh, Does This Not Subvert the Natural Order?

Has Michael Moriarty's Performance in Q The Winged Serpent Been Fully Appreciated?

Clear Policy Choice for General Motors

People Nowadays

Pesticides and Renditions

Congratulations to Michael Hofmann

My Expert NBA Playoff Predictions

Golem XIV and the Eskimo Canard

What Journal Is He Talking about?

The mnz Pattern

Codex Sinaiticus Digitization Initiative

Danish Break-Dancing

Three Books of Shame

Problems with the ODNB

Thirty Flasks of Shame

JSTOR Search Flaw

On the Subject of Nurses

Privatization and Efficiency The Penal Model

From the Realms of Counterfactuality

The Eternal Flame Two Views

Tom Wolfe's Been Annoying the Hell out of Me Lately

A Blog Is Being Obscured

Father Inire's Catoptromancy

Keynes and Galbraith as Moralists

Speaking of Keynes

Cost of Doing Business

Methods of Persuasion

Psychomimetic Analgesics and Torture Religious Implications, Fictional Anticipations, etc.

Query re Fictions of Revealed Science

A Meme of Uncertain Prospects

Freud on the Troilistic Enterprise

Two Things I Heard about the Solomon Islands

The Teaching of Intelligent Design

It's Funny Because It's True

S/W Hypo Avant, Evidence for

Qualification of a Popular Comparison

Today's Unexpected Lacan Quote

Significance Regarded As Not-So Protean

Howard Hart on the Universities and the CIA

The Wit and Wisdom of Melchior Inchofer

Odilon Redon on LSD

Game, Puzzle, Paradox

My Favorite Stephens

Utterly Arbitrary Jottings on Gene Wolfe's Book of Days

Fish on the Spheres of Religion

Harry Stephen Keeler

Wolfe's Strange Travellers Scattered Observations

Bart van der Leck's Stained Glass

Burke on Heffernan on Alias

Lasers, Warfare, and Commerical Aviation

The Wisdom of Phil Jackson

Scenes from Downtown Augusta

Kaspar Hauser (cont.), and Aleatory Research

Jeder fuer sich und Gott gegen alle and the Lingua Adamica

Kevin Drum Overreacts to Google Initiative Criticism

I Did Not Know and Should Have Known

Quote re Modes of War, Origin of Attitudes towards

South Korea and the Clancy Perplex

Consider the Implications

American Socialism

Teaching with Inform

Chocolate Flourless Cake

Brief Comments on Some of Gene Wolfe's Short Fiction

The Rhetoric of Evolution