history

Pink card with cogwheel design on one side and a question on the other about silk dresses being expensive due to the war with China. Marked "Conversation cards", "Babbage's soirée", opium war and trade.
Teaching

Larping Babbage’s soirees

I’m developing a larp where participants play guests at one of Charles Babbage’s Saturday night soirées in the 1840s. Here’s a sneak peak – I hope to publish the materials later this spring.

Electronic literature

Visual histories of genre

Jesper Juul has become interested in visualisations of genre histories, and in a blog post yesterday he both showed the above visualisation of the history of film genres, based on 2000 US films, and linked to his own article on the history […]