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Attack on kittens

AMEN!

or a digital copy here:

only library this book (Queer Gothic, G. Haggerty, red.) is available in is ihlia and after that they're sending me to SUFFOLK. in the uk. girl WHY. libgen isn't giving me anything either. its on archive dot org but that's so impractical 4 reading.....

@two-hands-toward-the-sun

so the gist of this hypothetical dissertation would be talking about queerness as an embodied concept in the OG sandman comix - namely how queerness becomes elided with bodily autonomy (or lack thereof). from my proposed triad, clearly i am thinking about the Corinthian, but i'd also want to talk about Wanda, Desire, Hazel and Foxglove. i'd be situating my analysis in relation to the AIDS crisis (which informs a lot of the comix), alongside a foucaultian understanding of biopolitics (whose bodies are seen as expendable and to what extent, whose bodies are under surveillance/control, etc).

some thoughts i'd want to explore: Wanda's womanhood and how it's realized through the medium but also contested among the powers that be - ritual magic vs the Endless. Desire as a villain and nonbinary identities as a disruption to spacetime as a storied concept. the Corinthian as specifically queer horror: he preys on young men, outing them in their deaths, and he's the worst case scenario of cruising, which involves a lot of vulnerability in the face of societal violence. (VERY interesting, also, that the second Corinthian's "redemption," so to speak, involves saving a small [read: innocent] child from violence and no real address of the desire that had him [heavily implied] sleeping with his victims.) who "gets" to embody queerness and what are the limits on that expression? what does queerness "look like" in the sandman universe? how are these bodies regulated/surveilled? there's a lot of overlap with queerness, violence, and/or disease in the sandman comix that reflects the ideas of the period in which it was made, but also...imho...deserves serious critique.

I just saw a tumblr user refer to an elder’s research prowess in looking for a book in some “Mysterious Cataloguing Site” (capitals original), presenting this site like an impossibly esoteric part of the Deep Web that only researchers who’ve pulled the sword from the stone or whatever are granted access to. the site in question was WorldCat.

JSTOR is the superior academic source,,, I never have to change its citations ever just ask for it and BOOM done

what paper are you looking for?

Wamsley, Kevin B. (July 1997). Representations of injury and disability: The masculinizing process in professional hockey culture.

the conference is either

international society for sociology of sport association

or

international sociology of sport association (this is the version on his cv)

unfortunately i suspect it may have just been presented at that conference and never have been published in a journal. although at least two people have access to it (at least two ph.d/masters theses cite it and one court case, although the case doesn't go much in depth and i suspect may have just been citing the excerpts quoted in alexis peters' thesis).

One day I’ll get my own article on JSTOR and I’ll link it in my bio and it’ll be such a funny bit

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does this small local academic publisher know that they’re the second website i look at when my paycheck comes in?

(This is going to be my long-winded way of saying go support @solradguy and his scanlating efforts with a Ko-Fi donation if you can, Gearsters)

A really big reason why I want to support Guilty Gear archival efforts is that I’m also very into another 90s series with tons of niche old content: Magic the Gathering.

Of the old, foundational novels from the game’s early history (back before there was a even a coherent story depicted in sets!) the Ice Age trilogy is my favorite. However, it’s quite simply not available (legally) as an ebook atm. If I hadn’t been fortunate enough to pick up the whole trilogy in the ~1 year where it was for sale on Amazon as an ebook, the only way I could have read it without fan archival or some potentially very long distance library loans would have been to shell out 100-200 bucks for some battered old paperbacks. And this is for one of the most consistently popular, eminently collectible, English language runaway successes from the 90s. In the country it was originally published in, even!

Over the past several months, Anna’s Archive has been secretly scraping WorldCat, the world’s largest book metadata database.

WorldCat is run by the non-profit organization OCLC and works with tens of thousands of libraries globally. Its database is proprietary and not freely available but Anna’s Archive managed to bypass the restrictions, to make their own copy freely available.

“Even though OCLC is a non-profit, their business model requires protecting their database. Well, we’re sorry to say, friends at OCLC, we’re giving it all away,” Anna’s Archive notes.

PS: We do want to give a genuine shout-out to the Worldcat team. Even though it was a small tragedy that your data was locked up, you did an amazing job at getting 30,000 libraries on board to share their metadata with you. As with many of our releases, we could not have done it without the decades of hard work you put into building the collections that we now liberate. Truly: thank you.

The meta-search engine says it managed to scrape a staggering three terabytes of metadata. The dataset includes 1.3 billion unique IDs that, after removing duplicates and other noise, equate to 700 million unique records.

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See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OCLC

Internet Archive: Syncing Catalogs with thousands of Libraries in 120 Countries through OCLC

i am going to travel 45m to pick up a book on clive barker today but i am NOT going to read it until i finish my nonhellraiser homework!!! (today's mantra)

i hate the tweet thtas like google is sooo powerful it HIDES other search systems from us!! and then lists a bunch of search systems ive either heard of or would have no reason to use....and none of them are even in competition with google like there are lots of resources for like searching academic journals no one is googling for that they’re googling for like ‘what is bob dylan’s rising sign’ 

the worst part about having very specific niche interests is trying to track down a paper that doesn’t appear to be available anywhere online and the most of a trace you can find of it is mentioned in a phd thesis from 1999 or in the author’s cv where it’s like presented before the international sociology of sport association proceedings, oslo, norway :)