CodEX Machina Podcast
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Join Natalia, Bethany, and Laura as they delve into the world of #publishing, #bookhistory, and #books. Available wherever you listen. Latest blog: https://strangelandbooks.com/2025/09/27/banned-and-challenged-books-discussions/
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🎙️ New episode! We discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, and boy, what a discussion. Like Piranesi, it’s a book that keeps you thinking. 📖
Some of our favorite book-to-movie adaptations. Don’t forget the popcorn! 🍿 🎬
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Some of our favorite book-to-movie adaptations. Don’t forget the popcorn! 🍿 🎬
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A wonderful page from a Parisian Book of Hours (Horae Beatae Mariae Virgine, 1490-1510) with and unusual floral border in the style of Bruges-Ghent. I love it!
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#bookhistory
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#bookhistory
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A wonderful page from a Parisian Book of Hours (Horae Beatae Mariae Virgine, 1490-1510) with and unusual floral border in the style of Bruges-Ghent. I love it!
😍
#bookhistory
😍
#bookhistory
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Gift link: Ivan Nechepurenko with visuals by Nanna Heitmann, "Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books" (New York Times; #bookhistory) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books
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November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Gift link: Ivan Nechepurenko with visuals by Nanna Heitmann, "Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books" (New York Times; #bookhistory) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Something else for us to talk about on the podcast!
Gift link: Ivan Nechepurenko with visuals by Nanna Heitmann, "Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books" (New York Times; #bookhistory) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...
Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Something else for us to talk about on the podcast!
I think I’m in love.
Even the fires of a world war could not destroy this magnificent mandrake.
Kassel, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, 9th c.:
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#histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky
Kassel, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, 9th c.:
orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...
#histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I think I’m in love.
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Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
🎙️ New episode! We discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, and boy, what a discussion. Like Piranesi, it’s a book that keeps you thinking. 📖
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
🎙️ New episode! We discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, and boy, what a discussion. Like Piranesi, it’s a book that keeps you thinking. 📖
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My British Abolition Literature students made zines for the Castellani Dignity exhibit
October 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My British Abolition Literature students made zines for the Castellani Dignity exhibit
One blurb to rule them all.
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
One blurb to rule them all.
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Woot, woot! The interview with Dr. Gouck is super interesting. 💜 Fight evil, read banned books! #BannedBooksWeek #bookhistory
It's Banned Books Week! And we are so happy to hear that @georgetakei.bsky.social is the honorary chair this year! We'll have to read his book for Strange Land Book Club! The Codex Machina team has a couple of episodes out right now that focus on banned books and scholarship of banned books.
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Woot, woot! The interview with Dr. Gouck is super interesting. 💜 Fight evil, read banned books! #BannedBooksWeek #bookhistory
It's Banned Books Week! And we are so happy to hear that @georgetakei.bsky.social is the honorary chair this year! We'll have to read his book for Strange Land Book Club! The Codex Machina team has a couple of episodes out right now that focus on banned books and scholarship of banned books.
October 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It's Banned Books Week! And we are so happy to hear that @georgetakei.bsky.social is the honorary chair this year! We'll have to read his book for Strange Land Book Club! The Codex Machina team has a couple of episodes out right now that focus on banned books and scholarship of banned books.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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On This Day in History: October 7, 1955
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.
October 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
On This Day in History: October 7, 1955
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.
Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Kenneth Rexroth emceed while Jack Kerouac worked the crowd with a wine jug and shouts of encouragement. The reading helped ignite the Beat scene.
🎙️Coming soon, just in time for Banned Books Week (October 5-11) we have a series of episodes about book bans/challenges and censorship. Our next episode will be a Strange Land Book Club episode about Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume. 💪
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🎙️Coming soon, just in time for Banned Books Week (October 5-11) we have a series of episodes about book bans/challenges and censorship. Our next episode will be a Strange Land Book Club episode about Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume. 💪
In our fourth Strange Land Books episode, we discuss the Ted Chiang short story "Tower of Babylon". Link is for Apple podcasts, but available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Strange Land Books 4: The Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
Podcast-Folge · CodEX Machina · 28.07.2025 · 38 Min.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In our fourth Strange Land Books episode, we discuss the Ted Chiang short story "Tower of Babylon". Link is for Apple podcasts, but available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Great thread about the mistakes that academic orgs + institutions make on AI. They centre AI because they think it is inevitable. This is a betrayal of their mission to provide critical skills. We should think what we want to achieve & then look for tools, not assume everything is a nail. #resistAI
The assumption that generative AI could be a "valuable partner" is unevidenced and the example activity is critical thinking work that could better be done in the absence of AI. It's thinking of something you COULD do with AI. Rather than what students SHOULD do to learn.
August 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Great thread about the mistakes that academic orgs + institutions make on AI. They centre AI because they think it is inevitable. This is a betrayal of their mission to provide critical skills. We should think what we want to achieve & then look for tools, not assume everything is a nail. #resistAI
We’ve been remiss in posting about our latest episodes as they come out, so it’s time to catch up. In our 7th episode, join us as Bethany and Laura discuss their experiences at the Thessaloniki Book Fair.
August 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We’ve been remiss in posting about our latest episodes as they come out, so it’s time to catch up. In our 7th episode, join us as Bethany and Laura discuss their experiences at the Thessaloniki Book Fair.
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Do you dog-ear or think that’s too…. ruff on your #books?
view.nl.npr.org/?qs=...
On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social
view.nl.npr.org/?qs=...
On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Do you dog-ear or think that’s too…. ruff on your #books?
view.nl.npr.org/?qs=...
On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social
view.nl.npr.org/?qs=...
On the psychology & cultural history of our attitudes toward the physical book. NB features fellow @sharpweb.org member & friend Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social
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The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is almost here. Pull up a seat.
See you on Tuesday 29 July, 2pm BST.
See you on Tuesday 29 July, 2pm BST.
July 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Booker Prize 2025 longlist is almost here. Pull up a seat.
See you on Tuesday 29 July, 2pm BST.
See you on Tuesday 29 July, 2pm BST.
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on July 31, @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 188 and LJS 191, astronomical texts in Middle English, in two portions of an original manuscript that is now in four parts. The original manuscript was written in England circa 1496.
Register here: https://bit.ly/40kD6sd
Register here: https://bit.ly/40kD6sd
Coffee with a Codex: Astronomical Texts (Two fragments from the same original manuscript)
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
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July 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For #CoffeeWithACodex on July 31, @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 188 and LJS 191, astronomical texts in Middle English, in two portions of an original manuscript that is now in four parts. The original manuscript was written in England circa 1496.
Register here: https://bit.ly/40kD6sd
Register here: https://bit.ly/40kD6sd
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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
July 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
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A little counterpoint here, hope you don’t mind :) Chinese movable type printing started to take off in the 19th century, and it was due to a mix of factors.
1. There was the growing need for bilingual dictionaries, especially ones mixing Chinese with Latin letters.
1. There was the growing need for bilingual dictionaries, especially ones mixing Chinese with Latin letters.
July 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A little counterpoint here, hope you don’t mind :) Chinese movable type printing started to take off in the 19th century, and it was due to a mix of factors.
1. There was the growing need for bilingual dictionaries, especially ones mixing Chinese with Latin letters.
1. There was the growing need for bilingual dictionaries, especially ones mixing Chinese with Latin letters.
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Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
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My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums doi.org/10.5281/zeno... from our #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and Discussing Global Case Studies
Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And the audience for questions
Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And the audience for questions
The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums
The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums Museums, libraries and archives have been releasing digital collections records and media as open data for decades. 'Open GLAM' images,…
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July 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums doi.org/10.5281/zeno... from our #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and Discussing Global Case Studies
Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And the audience for questions
Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And the audience for questions
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We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: