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<h2>2nd July, 2012: University of Brighton</h2>
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<div>RT @AlluviumJournal: We hear Alluvium author @djbduncan's  causing a Miltonic sensation at #HEAdayC21. His article's going down well also! http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/Heidi James</div>
<div>@DrKatyShaw Re Boxall's keynote, the C21 as liquid and instant, it occurs to me that the post-millennial drinks too much coffee! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Thanks so much to @DrKatyShaw for a tremendously useful conf on teaching contemporary lit #HEAdayC21Dennis Duncan</div>
<div>RT @DrKatyShaw: Huge thanks to all who attended the symposium today and followed us on #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Huge thanks to all who attended the symposium today and followed us on #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Loved being in Brighton for #HEAdayC21 http://instagr.am/p/MkrvxLA3rV/Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Final words from Nicole King touching on poss for interdisc coalition. That's it! Thanks to @DrKatyShaw for an inspiring day at #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Nicole King plenary #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>RT @dehester: fantastic range of new texts discussed by the contemporary narratives panel - i'd do their course!  #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Dinnen's last text is Super Sad True Love Story as set in the network fiction tradition (and potential failure?) #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>fantastic range of new texts discussed by the contemporary narratives panel - i'd do their course!  #HEAdayC21Diarmuid Hester</div>
<div>Dinnen on workarounds for teaching rare technotexts: students do background reading, then workshop = tutor brings physical text #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Zara Dinnen mentions our book on Dave Eggers - One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity #HEAdayC21 http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?BookID=157243Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Dinnen points out the problem of teaching McSweeney's: hard for all students to get hold of #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>@ContinuumLit @martin_eve Nothing like a good clear PPT to stimulate audience engagement...and tweeting! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Dinnen talking about the unusual aesthetics of the literary journal McSweeney's. Edited by Dave Eggers. #HEAdayC21The Comics Grid</div>
<div>Dinnen talking about the unusual aesthetics of the literary journal McSweeney's. Edited by Dave Eggers. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Zara Dinnen's definition of Technotext: A literary work that interrogates the inscription technology that produces it #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>N Katherine Hayles' model of a technotext: &quot;a literary work that interrogates the inscription technology that produced it&quot; the #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Now Zara Dinnen is on, talking on &quot;technotexts&quot; #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Dinnen looking at a particular Web 2.0 technological context #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Zara Dinnen on technotexts #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Now Zara Dinnen is on, talking on &quot;technotexts&quot; #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Not canonised, says Venezia, but part of an emergent order: new publishers branching out #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Venezia relates how Harold Bloom has been appropriated by superhero comic studies - misprision indeed! #HEAdayC21Michael Hogan</div>
<div>Hillary Chute argues that some of the most effective feminist cultural production lies in edgy graphic novel, says Venezia #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Engaging history of academic responses to comics and graphic novels in gen and fun home partic by t venezia #headayc21Diarmuid Hester</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Venezia relates how Harold Bloom has been appropriated by superhero comic studies - misprision indeed! #HEAdayC21Adeline Koh</div>
<div>Now Venezia talking about Bechdel's Fun Home - double movement of authorial paternal identification says Venezia #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Maus as ur-text in canonisation of graphic novel #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Comics, as a term, enters discourse in late 19c. Graphic novels in 1960s. Venezia points out arguments against this. Validation. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Venezia relates how Harold Bloom has been appropriated by superhero comic studies - misprision indeed! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Following the story's arc #HEAdayC21: converging focal points and refracting trajectories, towards an ethical denouement?John Wrighton</div>
<div>@BobEaglestone I think Bianca was a little traumatised! Lots of great papers today. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Tony Venezia now up, speaking on the c21 texts he'd set, focusing on the graphic novel #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Leggett thinking through Moretti's 2 metaphors for local and global: waves for transnational and trees foe national #HEAdayC21 @afrayn Martin Eve</div>
<div>“@DrKatyShaw @contemporaryfic on tour at Brighton Uni and HEA day #HEAdayC21 http://p.twimg.com/Awzq1a7CEAA74X9.jpg”Martin Eve</div>
<div>Birkbeck doctoral researchers showcasing thoughtful design of an interesting and challenging UG module #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>@contemporaryfic on tour at Brighton Uni and HEA day #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/FBTyDmnCDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Leggett arguing for British authors situated in a transnational mode: Cloud Atlas, Transmission and Lara #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>On the other hand, says Leggett, there are many global literature courses and centres: St Andrews, Manchester #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Nationalist boundaries still enforced in HE syllabi, says Leggett - cites rise of Scottish courses in light of devolution #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Bianca Leggett invoking @BobEaglestone's condemnation of the term &quot;British&quot; in their recent conference title #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Finding room on contemporary fiction courses for what might appear out of fashion can actually enrich students' experiences #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>http://schoolboyerrors.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/literary-criticism-and-the-scientistic-imperative/ some thoughts avant la lettre on issues raised by mark slaters paper #headayc21Diarmuid Hester</div>
<div>Now a Birkbeck panel, the last of the day, bringing out Bianca Leggett's transnational literatures to start #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @ContinuumLit: The pedagogical canon - texts chosen  with student friendly content: gender, race, class #HEAdayC21Bea Deguez</div>
<div>RT @ContinuumLit: Very clear trend of prize-winning literature (with a media identity) influencing course teaching #HEAdayC21Bea Deguez</div>
<div>RT @ContinuumLit: Is HE teaching of contemporary literature over-dependent on the marketplace and literary prizes? #HEAdayC21Bea Deguez</div>
<div>We hear Alluvium author @djbduncan's  causing a Miltonic sensation at #HEAdayC21. His article's going down well also! http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/Alluvium Journal</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Oh, and Dennis has just written a piece for @AlluviumJournal http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/ #HEAdayC21Alluvium Journal</div>
<div>Duncan on problem of authors talking back in c21st #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/KctOfWpUDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Oh, and Dennis has just written a piece for @AlluviumJournal http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/ #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Dennis Duncan imagines Milton's author interview in response to the looming presence of the living author in c21 lit #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>&quot;So, of course, ye Civil War had just happened&quot; #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Duncan gives a hilarious slide showing the Amazon blurb that Milton would have written #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/9lTqru7PMartin Eve</div>
<div>@diminutivebird @martin_eve I hear he writes a mean article also... http://www.alluvium-journal.org/2012/07/01/backwards-and-forwards-with-the-atomic-priesthood/ #HEAdayC21Alluvium Journal</div>
<div>Category of second material guides discursive approach - eg reviews, says Duncan #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Historical is the catch-all when students don't have critical or theoretical secondary sources, says Duncan #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>@martin_eve Agreed, Dennis Duncan a great example of working the crowd. The question is, will there be a second date?! #injoke #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>@martin_eve close proximity of teaching and wit here no doubt #headayc21Diarmuid Hester</div>
<div>@martin_eve discussing q's of ethical form in C21 fiction, students can explore the politics of choices in pedagogy/theory/text? #HEAdayC21John Wrighton</div>
<div>You should HIRE Dennis Duncan to give an academic paper. Hilarious hilarious guy and very interesting! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @DrKatyShaw: Dennis Duncan on longing for the death of the author in c21 lit assessment #HEAdayC21Caroline Magennis</div>
<div>Students asked if anything specifically study of delineated c21 lit. Most responded with: no secondary material, says Duncan #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Oops, DD's paper is on bibliographical not biographical problem... Also important! (Though I'd like to hear first paper too!) #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>@DrWrighton can you elaborate on that? #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Dennis Duncan on longing for the death of the author in c21 lit assessment #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>An ethical wager emerging via #HEAdayC21? Q. for panel: politics of pedagogy in C21 lit. made explicit by exploring ethics of form/fiction?John Wrighton</div>
<div>Duncan has marking guidelines up for the structure of his paper: critical, theoretical, historical #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Dennis Duncan on the problem of the author in teaching C21 lit. Yes! What to do with living authors? Interview or ignore them? #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>“@Casserine @martin_eve I've come across both Banville and Trevor on many syllabi both in Ireland and the USA” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @ContinuumLit: Is HE teaching of contemporary literature over-dependent on the marketplace and literary prizes? #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Last up, Dennis Duncan brings our attention to the bibliography. He told me on the train it could be summarised in 1 minute #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>@ContinuumLit Worthwhile question - and use of book reviews to shape teaching C21 lit quickly sediments canon formation #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21Slothrop</div>
<div>Turner debating ways of teaching PD James' The Lighthouse #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>@dehester a losel is a worthless person! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>but what IS a losel?! #HEADAYC21Diarmuid Hester</div>
<div>Is HE teaching of contemporary literature over-dependent on the marketplace and literary prizes? #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Very clear trend of prize-winning literature (with a media identity) influencing course teaching #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Do we discuss wit and enjoyment in the classroom?, asks Turner. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Turner asks if texts being taught on HE lit courses are 'too easy'. Which critical value systems are at work here? #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Turner points out under-taught prize winners: Hazard, Lively, Banville, Trevor #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Many neglected writers: John Banville, William Trevor, Shirley Hazzard, Penelope Lively #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Mark Slater polemically argues for an encounter bt creative writing and turner-lakoff-johnson &amp; cognitive science #HEADAYC21Diarmuid Hester</div>
<div>The pedagogical canon - texts chosen  with student friendly content: gender, race, class #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Turner now examining an MA course on c21 fiction. Syllabus looks good from here. Mitchell, Sebald, DeLillo. No Pynchon #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Contemporary fiction courses built around a 'canon' of prize winning novelists #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Nick Turner asking what kinds of literary texts are (not) taught in HE? What new methods of teaching can be introduced? #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Nicholas Turner now up, talking about sculpting c21 syllabuses. Ishiguro, Smith and McEwan on his MMU course. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Oh wait, no, we are allowed some constructivism. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Slater's provocative binary - critical practice as of mind, creative as of body - quietly gendered. 'Savage rhetoric' indeed! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Unfortunately, I have not read any of the cited neuroscience and am not a neuroscientist. I remain very sceptical though. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Slater has basically dismissed all forms of theoretical reading of literature &amp; social construction. #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Slater has basically dismissed all forms of theoretical reading of literature &amp; social construction. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @ContinuumLit: Must twitter congratulate @martin_eve for a fantastic #HEAdayC21 talk. Led to lots of interesting, reflective discussion.Alluvium Journal</div>
<div>Slater claims that neuroscience has undermined these premises and that subjectivity can be evaluated #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Can critical theory ever be united with creative practice? Reading after theory... #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Slater: assumptions of theory are that language is consciousness &amp; that reality is linguistically determined #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Slater: creative practice could be the salvation of literature, revitalising &amp; ensuring relevance, not its 'soft option' nemesis #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Slater claims that science is undermining the epistemological foundations of literary theory. Which theories? What science? #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Lots of &quot;embodiment&quot; from Slater #HEAdayC21 #bingoMartin Eve</div>
<div>RT @DrKatyShaw: @artsbrighton digital writing and theorising c21 literature at HEA symposium at Falmer #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/ULuAJSdkArts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>We need to rethink the philosophical assumptions underpinning the teaching of post-millennial literature #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Creative writing still viewed with suspicion says Slater. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Are people giving up Derrida to do accounting? What are the affects of the funding crisis? #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Slater citing Springerland(?), critiquing French theory and looking for vitality and epiphany #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Mark Slater offering an incisive &amp; engaging discussion on ontological divide between creative practice &amp; critical theory in HE #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve2012I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21W.A.S.T.E.</div>
<div>Mark Slater on reinvigorating literary criticism in the c21st #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>... relationship between practice &amp; theory #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Some themes emerging from #HEAdayC21 - move away from post-modernism, difficult relationship between science &amp; literature and...Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Slater warns against bolting on creative practice to critical theory #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Slater warns that his argument is an attempt to push arguments to their limits and warns of savage rhetoric! #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Mark Slater now up on theory and practice, drawing many thematic areas together #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>David James on McEwan's Atonement as historicising itself, an example of C21 lit project 'to discuss where we stand' #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>RT @ContinuumLit: ...themselves a character and a space' - Lorna Sage, quoted by David James in his #HEAdayC21 talkAL Dugmore</div>
<div>David James mentions our Contemporary Critical Perspectives book on Ian McEwan #HEAdayC21 http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=130612&amp;SearchType=BasicContinuum Literary</div>
<div>I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>I'd say Pynchon's Against the Day also possesses all the characteristics that James is bringing out here #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>James warns against treating modernist fiction as a homogenised amoral block #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>...themselves a character and a space' - Lorna Sage, quoted by David James in his #HEAdayC21 talkContinuum Literary</div>
<div>James applies my term &quot;crypto-didacticism&quot; to Atonement #HEAdayC21 #blowingmyowntrumpetMartin Eve</div>
<div>David Janes on Atonement as case study of possibilities of post millennial lit #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>David James discussing the features, trends &amp; traits of C21 writing #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>James thinking through McEwan's anti-high-modernism #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Lots of interesting tweets coming from the Teaching Post-Millennial Literature Symposium at University of Brighton today! #HEAdayC21HEAcademy</div>
<div>Must twitter congratulate @martin_eve for a fantastic #HEAdayC21 talk. Led to lots of interesting, reflective discussion.Continuum Literary</div>
<div>James is looking at Atonement, to a predictably mixed reaction #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>James picks up on J. Palmer Parker's microcosmic focus for teaching. Sounds very much like Adorno's primacy of the object. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>James looking at Lorna Sage's critique of deconstruction, receivership and novelty. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>David James on teaching post millennial literature #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/FavyHghaDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>RT @diminutivebird: @martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Will Smith</div>
<div>Right, now I'm off the podium, David James is on, picking up where Peter Boxall left off with defining c21 lit. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @DrKatyShaw: @martin_eve rethinking Adorno #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/rqV1ohXxMartin Eve</div>
<div>RT @ContinuumLit: So exciting to learn about the new @artsbrighton C21 literature centre! #HEAdayC21John Wrighton</div>
<div>So exciting to learn about the new @artsbrighton C21 literature centre! #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>@the_blochian Drawn to intersecting theories of temporality, modernity, &amp; new technologies: i'm tuning in via #HEAdayC21 from TorontoJohn Wrighton</div>
<div>@DrWrighton Sounds like some great discussion! What's been said about the novel form in the c21st? #HEAdayC21Caroline Edwards</div>
<div>RT @DrWrighton: Cherry picks from #HEAdayC21: focusing the contemporary; teaching post-millennial lit; rethinking theory; novel form; questions of modernityNicholas Birns </div>
<div>Thanks to @martin_eve @diminutivebird  @DrKatyShaw @anthonylevings with @HEAcademy @ContinuumLit, @artsbrighton for #HEAdayC21 tweetsJohn Wrighton</div>
<div>Cherry picks from #HEAdayC21: focusing the contemporary; teaching post-millennial lit; rethinking theory; novel form; questions of modernityJohn Wrighton</div>
<div>@Herring1967 RT for #HEAdayC21 please my love!Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@DrMagennis follow #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@martin_eve speaking on utopia and the spirit of '68 #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@SussexEnglish @martin_eve on university, revolution and resistance #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>RT @diminutivebird: @martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Arts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>Teaching Utopia. Martin Eve on Balano's 2666 and the universities' potential for re-envisioning how theory is taught - at #HEAdayc21Arts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>RT @diminutivebird: @martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Continuum Literary</div>
<div>@martin_eve considering Bolano's 2666 in relation to Adorno's C20th critical theory #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>@martin_eve do new fictions require new ways of teaching? #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@martin_eve playfully interprets #HEAdayC21 in adjectival form: post-millennial fiction that teaches. On new didacticism in C21 novel.Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Literature team at #Brighton leads the thrust into the 21st century. Theory, technologies and creativity all examined at #HEAdayC21Arts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>@martin_eve rethinking Adorno #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/rqV1ohXxDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@martin_eve has just flashed up a fab looking Prezi. Very C21! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>@HEAcademy Follow #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@ContinuumLit Thanks for the RT! Sorry I can't be at today's #HEAdayC21. Our online editor @martin_eve sounds like he's giving a great paperAlluvium Journal</div>
<div>Am very much enjoying the University of Brighton mini-rock sweets #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/4TR3m64cContinuum Literary</div>
<div>RT @diminutivebird: @ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Arts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>RT @DrKatyShaw: Rethinking the logic of the 'crisis' in the humanities and arts #HEAdayC21Arts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>RT @DrKatyShaw: Theory, the post colonial and terror #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/KNrTvG6lArts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Who has access to digital writing if it requires a specific craft, asks Wilson #HEAdayC21 Arts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>RT @DrKatyShaw: Digital writings in HE #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/WzTHS70QArts Brighton Uni</div>
<div>Liz Sage: do demands for A&amp;H to give account of impact resemble imperialistic terrorism? eg required to speak in alien tongue... #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>@DrKatyShaw Thanks, yes I have been reading today's #HEAdayC21 tweets. Really sorry I can't be there but the discussion sounds fascinating.Alluvium Journal</div>
<div>@artsbrighton digital writing and theorising c21 literature at HEA symposium at Falmer #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/ULuAJSdkDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Formulating a response to the terrorist call of the other #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@AlluviumJournal follow #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Rethinking the logic of the 'crisis' in the humanities and arts #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>RT @diminutivebird: @ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Theory, the post colonial and terror #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/KNrTvG6lDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@martin_eve and liz sage on theorising post-millennial literature #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@martin_eve takes his place on the second panel of the day: theorising post-millennial literature #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>RT @diminutivebird: @ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Digital writings in HE #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/WzTHS70QDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>The schedule for the day! #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/TShuYsSCDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Wilson leaves us with permutations on the phrase &quot;is it still writing?&quot; #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Michael Wilson: digital texts introduce choice to narrative progression, endlessly defer completion &amp; refuse linearity. #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Debate over hard-bounding of pages in online practice, says Wilson #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Who has access to digital writing if it requires a specific craft, asks Wilson #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Writing torn between a democratic art and an awe-some craft #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Notion of skilled craft returning to literature #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Return to notion of craft in art work, says Wilson, resurfacing in the digital #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>@ContinuumLit What do you think: is publishing being killed by a giant snail?! #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Wilson: being published ain't what it used to be #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Michael Wilson: how far is writing a democratic practice in an age of digital technologies? #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Digital writing promises democracy/accessibility, but has problems as predicated on writing and tech. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Wilson says that digital literature spans many fields. Social media, gaming, art writing, text sculpture, media arts #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Michael Wilson now talking about the effects of new digital technologies on writing, defining literature &amp; impact on teaching #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Wilson speaking of terminological shifts. Text, narrative, book, fiction, writing. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Michael Wilson on digital interfaces with creative writing #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/m1QDMCRqDr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Last in this panel is Michael Wilson on Digital Writing. Old dogs and new tricks. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Moriarty's closing shot: how can we, or should we even, link teaching and employability agenda #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Note to self (and others!): look up UoBrighton's Work Write Live hub. Ideas for relevant volunteering opps for A&amp;H students. #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>“@drkayem tho McCarthy's take on Modernism is idiosyncratic &amp; there are cont writers who engage with Euro mod, e.g. Coetzee” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Module design sustainability and employability in cw #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Moriarty had AMEX sponsorship. I have a slide critiquing this in my presentation. Whoops. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>“@svejky @martin_eve interesting work as a result. Probably because literature in its essence is only quotation, I conjecture.” #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>“@svejky whereas 19c English writers engaged closely with the history of literature, as did the modernists &amp; produced far more” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>“@svejky It's v telling that Pynchon &amp; DFW have sustained engagements with early modern lit, &amp; then compared to English” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>“@svejky I actually feel more strongly about it than that...not even failure to engage with modernism, but w the entire history” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Moriarty's project is at http://www.workwritelive.com (I think) #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>“@knightsben @martin_eve Have written about this myself. Can I recommend ... http://bit.ly/OUSSB4 #shamelessselfpromotion #HEAdayC21”Martin Eve</div>
<div>Moriarty on creative writing and employability in the academy #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Moriarty's project attempted to fuse graduate employability with disciplinary integrity. Many buzzwords flying! #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>@martin_eve Have written about this myself. Can I recommend ...http://bit.ly/OUSSB4 #shamelessselfpromotion #HEAdayC21Ben Knights</div>
<div>“@EarlyModernist I'm mixing cultural hist w naval history, study of professionalization, hard to place into a seminar series.” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>@EarlyModernist that would have fitted in just fine here! #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>“@svejky @martin_eve true! see also Tom McCarthy's constant lament about the refusal of English writers to engage with modernism” #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Now Jess Moriarty speaking on &quot;work, write, live&quot;. A project on inter-generational biographical writing #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Pleasanse argues for integration of creative in critical literature studies. Suggests as mode of assessment. #HEAdayC21 Continuum Literary</div>
<div>I sense #HEAdayC21 bingo. &quot;embodiment&quot;Martin Eve</div>
<div>Thoughtful provocations on creative writing as a critical practice from Helen Pleasance #HEAdayC21Nicola Abram</div>
<div>Pleasanse argues for integration of creative in critical literature studies. Suggests as mode of assessment. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Pleasanse now giving a crash course in Sick Hebdige and sociology of the sublime. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>@ContinuumLit but saying that's a problem! #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Problem with utilitarian &quot;getting published&quot; model of creative writing in academia. Neglects epistemological form of cr writing #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>'Getting published is the holy grail ofCreative Writing courses' Helen Pleasance #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Helen Pleasanse on Creative Writing in the Academy on now #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Creative awaiting emerged as an adjunct to Literary Studies - Helen Pleasance on Creative Writing in the Academy #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Creative writing panel #HEAdayC21 http://pic.twitter.com/Xv6ojfx5Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Creative writing and the academy in the c21: challenges and debates #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>@svejky think that phrase continuously occurs in Julian Barnes' Sense of an Ending #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall: phase that obsessed with notions of embodiment #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Pleased to be at #HEAdayC21 - great programme for the day, with Peter Boxall's keynote setting the tone nowNicola Abram</div>
<div>Slowing of motion in Tom McCarthy, Don DeLillo and others brings this local global disjunct to the fore, says Box all #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Box all looking at fictions that focus on locality through unwanted imposed globalities. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Boxall now talking on the difficulties of bounding C21 fiction. #HEAdayC21 Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Intractable relation between global and local #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall paranthetically acknowledges problems of de-territorialised model - still experience the hard reality of checkpoints #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>Novel and the future of the form in the c21st... #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>(does that delimit it in any way?) #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>C21 writing as grouped by writers dealing with a time of flux and shifting geopolitical conditions #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall now talking on the difficulties of bounding C21 fiction. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Marx says commodity form can also exist in realm of ideas, thus again encroaching on the academy #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Problems of defining what a c21 author is? #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>To put this otherwise: isn't academic knowledge also pre-obsolete? Not unique to the commodity Form. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>I have problems with this theorisation of obsolescence through software - knowledge is cumulative #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall on Baumann's extra-territorialisation of power (Microsoft) - feeds into Hardt and Negri, I'd suspect #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall on Liquid modernity and the era of the instant #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Boxall: Baumann on modernity and speed. Moving now to examine specificity of c21 #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @martin_eve: Boxall is using Sartre, though. #HEAdayC21 Continuum Literary</div>
<div>'Writing on contemporary literature involves us thinking about the outlines of an emerging historical era' Peter Boxall #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Boxall: ace meta-reference to twitter. #keeps a low profile# #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall: fusion of a-historic and the specific that illuminates our relationship to the present #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall quoting Sound and the Fury - train journey that shows perspectival dynamics brought by technology #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>At Teaching Post-Millennial Literature symposium today. One of our authors, Peter Boxall, kicks the proceedings off #HEAdayC21Continuum Literary</div>
<div>Boxall: Nietzsche, Barthes and Agamben on untimeliness, says Boxall. Those who are aligned with their time are misaligned. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Boxall is using Sartre, though. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Very difficult to bring the contemporary into focus. Too immanent. I'm thinking of Foucault's empirico-transcendental doublet. #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Prof Peter Boxall keynote on C21 literature and the problems of teaching the present #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Boxall introducing theoretical issues in speaking on 21C lit. Historical determinants. #HEAdayC21Martin Eve</div>
<div>... But first, a quick guide to the HEA - call put out for those who would like to run their own conferences on HE teaching #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>Conference kicking off with @DrKatyShaw introducing Peter Boxall #HEAdayC21 Martin Eve</div>
<div>RT @DrMagennis: Excellent looking programme for #HEAdayC21, wish I could be there!Ben Knights</div>
<div>Excellent looking programme for #HEAdayC21, wish I could be there!Caroline Magennis</div>
<div>Room ready, tea and coffee on the way...plus a thousand pieces of Brighton rock! #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>RT @anthonylevings: Looking forward to the Teaching Post-Millennial Literature Symposium at the University of Brighton today #HEAdayC21Dr Katy Shaw</div>
<div>Looking forward to the Teaching Post-Millennial Literature Symposium at the University of Brighton today #HEAdayC21Anthony Levings</div>
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