Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Year in review: I have published

0 monographs
0 book chapters
0 articles
0 reviews
0 web publications

...B/c everything I`ve done is out in 2023!

BUT I`m thrilled to announce that I have 1 new position with PI @true_mxp at the University of Lausanne as of March 2023! Excited to continue exploring the history of tech, science, computing & so on (as they say: more info to come...)

One of the nice things about Inform 7 is that you can do a lot of things without knowing a lot. You can have a room (code is preceded by an asterisk *):

*The kitchen is a room.

You can put an oven there:

*The oven is in the kitchen.

Describe it:

*The description of the oven is "This electric oven was likely built in the late 70s. It is covered in chipped, white paint."

You can stop the player from carrying it off:

*The oven is fixed in place.

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#inform7 #InteractiveFiction

When it was completed in 1936 for the League of Nations, the Palais des Nations in #Geneva was actually the second largest building complex in Europe, after Versailles ! The design was a collaboration between Julien Flegenheimer (Switzerland), Camille Lefèvre (France), Henri-Pail Nénot (France), Carlo Broggi (Italy) and József Vágó (Hungary). Today it is the second largest office site of the United Nations. #architecture #unitednations

By September 2021, RECEPTIO had turned itself into "a philological and codicological hub" and "the only European centre of higher codicological specialisation for consultants of auction houses and antiquarian galleries." (screenshot from WayBack Machine attached)

I find it interesting how the mission of RECEPTIO has evolved over just the past two years.

In June 2020 the website (receptio.org) looked like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200611024921/https://www.receptio.org/
It promised research "in all fields of Medieval and Renaissance European civilisation," with an emphasis on philology. No specific mention of codicology, fragmentology, or DH.

Today this openness can still be seen on the current website (receptio.eu), e.g. under "other ongoing projects" and "events" (Dante / Caravaggio / Philology of fashion etc.). But the "main project" and most of the activities and offerings are now focused on codicology and especially fragmentology. Rossi is said to have devised her own (copyrighted!) method, some 50 digital editions of dismembered manuscripts are in progress, and "RECEPTIO hires scientific staff that carries out research in the field of Fragmentology." A rather sudden and, as it turns out, ill-advised reorientation of what may have started out as a valuable initiative.

#8 in my end-of-year review of #music that I released: "Our Youthful Shadows".

Somewhere between electric folk and synth-pop. I guess.

Still very fond of the vibe. And that flute.

Produced using #FOSS software (especially #ardour)

Free to stream and download on #SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/transitsofmars/our-youthful-shadows

The Future of Text ||| with a focus on text in VR/AR is now available. The digital version is free. Have you got your copy yet?

https://futuretextpublishing.com

Another fantastic #CSS resource, https://smolcss.dev/ Lots of really clever stuff in there, and SMOL!

"Der Kampf um die grossen Gelder führt zur sogenannten «Antragsprosa», in der ganz habituell übertrieben wird und Erkenntnisse versprochen werden, die nimmer eingehalten werden können. Antragsprosa ist nicht selten an Lüge grenzende Übertreibung – das hat System, sonst hat man von vorneherein keine Chance. Der SNF begünstigt ein System von «Fake it till you make it»." #receptiogate https://www.kath.ch/newsd/carla-rossis-fake-institut-wirbt-mit-alibi-bibliothek-und-drogenanwalt/

The dance of the naked emperors: a followup to "The rise and fall of peer review”

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-dance-of-the-naked-emperors

#ScholarlyCommunications #PeerReview

The definitive paper on "Version of Record" (though I disagree on the conclusions) https://content.iospress.com/articles/information-services-and-use/isu220164 @egonw