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Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark

Wark asks us to think about information less like Marxists and more like Marx.
El oro de los sueños by José María Merino

A edition of José María Merino’s book, adapted by Yolanda Pinto Gómez.
Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered. by Samuel Turner open access

This article provides an up-to-date interpretation of primary and secondary accounts of Ponce de León’s travels to Florida.
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby & James M. Lang

Darby and Lang offer a wealth of small interventions one can make to improve the experiences of online learners and teachers. I definitely recommend this for anyone who teaches online.

Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes. by Shannon A. Riggs & Kathryn E. Linder open access

Abstract: This paper suggests a three-pronged approach for conceptualizing active learning in the online asynchronous class: the creation of an architecture of engagement in the online classroom, the use of web-based tools in addition to the learning management system, and a re-imagining of discussion boards as interactive spaces.
Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State by James Purdon

Purdon examines modernist fiction to trace how writers experienced information culture as a disturbing interruption and governmental intrusion.