Damien Schlarb

I find academia most fun when one‘s work helps others disclose new areas of knowledge. It‘s a liberatingly expansive and collaborative ethos.

Buch suggests several surprising ways in which Melville‘s Wisdom may illuminate the discourse about the Australian cultural transformation of the Bible. #melvilleswisdom

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Thanks to Neville Buch and the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion for the insightful review

“Australian religionists wishing to understand historic American literature for American religion must read Damien Schlarb’s excellent work“ - Neville Buch for the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 37(1)

Field size as a predictor of “excellence.” The selection of subject fields in Germany’s Excellence Initiative We investigate the selection of subject fields in Germany’s “excellence initiative,” a two-phase funding scheme administered by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2005 to 2017 to increase inter...

"Although it should be regarded simply as an input for conducting research, organizational actors in German science policy, [...] have cultivated the notion that grant funding is equivalent to research success." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.

Non-econ-major question: Is it a good sign if your economy's biggest growth sector is predicated on theft of intellectual property?

“American studies began with the aim of subjecting the historical record of the society and culture of the US to a measured, critical assessment-as measured, that is, by the nation's own profession of values and purposes-this is no time to abandon that aim.” Leo Marx, 2005

Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.

So much for planned obsolescence. Japan gave us Toyotism, I hope the U.S. and Europe follow suit with this trend as well. I’ll start doing my reading and note taking on my ten-year-old Kindle, just to be safe.
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DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.

“The group posted a claim that confused billions with millions, triple-counted the savings from a single contract and claimed credit for canceling contracts that had ended under President George W. Bush.“

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T'was fated😉.

Silence, Sounds, Music This book examines the intersections of silence with immersive arts and experiences. Silence and immersion may seem antithetical: while immersion is supposedly induced by acoustic and other stimuli, s...

Finding quiet spaces in the noisy media ecologies we live in is hard. Making and finding those spaces in #videogames has peculiar design challenges and effects. I explain why in this new piece
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My book Melville’s Wisdom is out with
@oxunipress.bsky.social. It covers
🔹Herman Melville’s responses to the Old Testament wisdom books
🔹religious skepticism in 19th-century America
🔹higher criticism of the Bible in America in literature
🔹literary responses to modernity
#hermanmelville #amlit #c19

Hello world. Finally made the jump to greener pastures and bluer skies.