Chuffed to have been included in the OPEN ACCESS and just released volume Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects.

Read my chapter (A discipline that sat on its treasures, but didn't see them) here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Trying to practice good, regenerative open science by recording and uploading old talks to YouTube with slides.

Pros: making my work accessible! revisiting old ideas! getting my name out there!

Cons: hearing my own voice over and over again.

The ProQuest AI 'Research Assistant' summary of my dissertation is yet one more example of why I'll be eschewing AI in research for the foreseeable future.

Heart overfilling with gratitude to have the privilege of a second amazing trip to Chandigarh working on the Chandigarh Chairs project (before a detour to Delhi for ICDHS14!).

More INCREDIBLY serious stationery for an INCREDIBLY serious academic.

Exploiting the working class (Anno 1800).

Notre-Dame de Paris is looking good post-facelift, but I remain disappointed and inconsolable the proposed plan to place a public swimming pool on the roof was not selected/enacted.

Mildred and Edward Hall quoted a John Deere employee as saying that workers at the company were "inmates of the edifice” - with "the edifice" being Saarinen's office design, and I'm not sure I've ever vibed with a statement more.

Big mood.

Clearly, this was a global issue.

I’m sure we all have thoughts on this but can I please just draw your attention to the £150,000 worth of stolen handbags that the Metropolitan Police say look like this

Lines I never thought I would write until drafting a book proposal for the Chandigarh Chairs project:

Finished up the annual Paris Christmas trip with a visit to Corbusier's buildings for the Cité Internationale Universitaire.

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

Strongly appreciate the distinction made by the Musée de l'Orangerie in their current exhibition (Heinz Berggruen, un marchand et sa collection) between date of design and date of object creation for this Picasso sculpture. Wish this could become commonplace in the field of design!

Went to the National Library of Scotland several weeks ago, and sat all day with about four different translations of Marx splayed on the table in front of me. It's the first time I've felt like a true Scholar (with a capital 'S').

I am a serious academic and have the stationery to prove it.