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The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway

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New publication in Architectural Histories: "Constructing Stability. Miners’ Aspirations and the Building of Italian Religious Centres in Post-war Belgian Coal Regions" by Jacopo Zani: doi.org/10.16995/ah....

doi.orgConstructing Stability. Miners’ Aspirations and the Building of Italian Religious Centres in Post-war Belgian Coal RegionsIn May 1962, a new religious centre, the Centro Cattolico Italiano (Italian Catholic Centre; CCI), was inaugurated at the edge of the mining town of Waterschei in the Belgian region of Limburg. Since ...
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"The Ground Shook! Towards a Practice-based Poetics of the Transformer" by Malthe Stavning Erslev: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, "Contemporary Perspectives on AI and Narrative"

doi.orgThe Ground Shook! Towards a Practice-based Poetics of the TransformerThis article argues that literary experimentation with language models should insist on practice-based, media-specific engagement with model components. Specifically, the article focuses on the attent...

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What does the ‘Cost of Knowledge’ mean for open access? As #OAWeek draws to a close, we’ve updated our blog with more perspectives from OIPA members, exploring funding, sustainability, equity, quality and the wider value of open access. 👉 Read the reflections: oipauk.org/2026/10/19/o...

oipauk.orgOpen Access Week 2026Open Access Week 2026 It’s International Open Access Week (19th to 25th October 2026) and the theme is ‘The Cost of Knowledge’. We have been reflecting on this theme – and s…
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It's International #OAWeek! This year's theme, 'The Cost of Knowledge', has prompted reflections from OIPA and our members. We've brought together their thoughts and perspectives in our latest blog post. Read more: oipauk.org/2026/10/19/o...

oipauk.orgOpen Access Week 2026Open Access Week 2026 It’s International Open Access Week (19th to 25th October 2026) and the theme is ‘The Cost of Knowledge’. We have been reflecting on this theme – and s…

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We're at 77% of our fundraising target! - help us close the gap and get to 80% by Christmas! In #OAWeek become a Supporter and make a one-off investment in the Open Journals Collective at an amount of your choice!

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Yang, Xiaohan & Lu, Jiayi. 2026. Islands satiate without change in backgroundedness. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–23. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess

doi.orgIslands satiate without change in backgroundednessCertain structural domains restrict syntactic movement, a phenomenon termed the island effect. Although traditionally considered a class of syntactic constraints, island effects have been attributed b...

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Ullrich, Jan. 2026. Assigning attributive properties without adnominal modification in Lakota. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–39. DOI:https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.26297 #linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess

doi.orgAssigning attributive properties without adnominal modification in LakotaLakota has been described as a language in which adnominal modification is realized by a postnominal stative verb (SV). Lakota SVs can function predicatively without a copula, and their attributive us...

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Professor Caroline Edwards
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Just in time for #OpenAccess week! We've published our 2025-26 Annual Report at @openlibhums.org. An enormous amount of love and care goes into this report, and all of the many achievements it highlights. Please do have a read and let us know what you think.

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📢 We're pleased to share OLH's 2025–26 Annual Report! Despite a challenging financial climate for higher education, our income grew by 13.6%, enabling us to welcome five new journals, including transitions from commercial publishers to #DiamondOA Read the report: www.openlibhums.org/news/1060/

openlibhums.orgOLH Annual Report, 2025-26We're pleased to be publishing our Annual Report for the 2025-26 financial year, running 01 August 2025 to 31 July 2026. It's been a tough year for humanities disciplines, with …
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As we mark #OAWeek and this year's theme, “The Cost of Knowledge”, our Annual Report offers an opportunity to reflect on how resources are allocated and how collective funding supports our #DiamondOA publishing model. A huge thank you to all our library supporters!

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📢 We're pleased to share OLH's 2025–26 Annual Report! Despite a challenging financial climate for higher education, our income grew by 13.6%, enabling us to welcome five new journals, including transitions from commercial publishers to #DiamondOA Read the report: www.openlibhums.org/news/1060/

openlibhums.orgOLH Annual Report, 2025-26We're pleased to be publishing our Annual Report for the 2025-26 financial year, running 01 August 2025 to 31 July 2026. It's been a tough year for humanities disciplines, with …
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📢 We're pleased to share OLH's 2025–26 Annual Report! Despite a challenging financial climate for higher education, our income grew by 13.6%, enabling us to welcome five new journals, including transitions from commercial publishers to #DiamondOA Read the report: www.openlibhums.org/news/1060/

openlibhums.orgOLH Annual Report, 2025-26We're pleased to be publishing our Annual Report for the 2025-26 financial year, running 01 August 2025 to 31 July 2026. It's been a tough year for humanities disciplines, with …

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Paula Clemente Vega
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This year's #OAWeek theme, “The Cost of Knowledge”, resonates strongly with the questions I explored in my blog earlier this year. Making knowledge free is not just about removing paywalls, but also about how we redistribute resources to sustain the costs of diamond OA

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Diamond OA is free for readers and authors, but not free to sustain. For this year's #OAWeek theme, “The Cost of Knowledge”, we revisit a blog by @paulaclemente.bsky.social on why we must redirect resources towards community-led, non-profit publishing. 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/news/932/

openlibhums.orgReimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of StruggleReimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Wanted. Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 …
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Diamond OA is free for readers and authors, but not free to sustain. For this year's #OAWeek theme, “The Cost of Knowledge”, we revisit a blog by @paulaclemente.bsky.social on why we must redirect resources towards community-led, non-profit publishing. 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/news/932/

openlibhums.orgReimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of StruggleReimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Wanted. Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 …
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For #OAweek, our Executive Director Professor Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social) spoke to SPARC about the @ojcollective.bsky.social, inspired by the Open Library of Humanities, and what motivates her to challenge academic publishing cultures. Read the interview 👇

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The mission of the Open Journals Collective is to build a sustainable future for academic journals by challenging the profit-making models of global corporate publishing & data systems. Hear more from Executive Director Caroline Edwards in our #OAWeek profile: www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profil...

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What is the cost of knowledge? Find out what this year's #OAWeek theme means to #CopimCommunity Head to our website to find out more! 👉 buff.ly/S9PFs6n @beckywojturska.bsky.social @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social

buff.lyThe Cost of Knowledge: Open Access Week 2026 (part one) - CopimInternational Open Access Week is organised by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. It was founded in 2008 by SPARC and partners…

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It's International #OAWeek! This year's theme, 'The Cost of Knowledge', has prompted reflections from OIPA and our members. We've brought together their thoughts and perspectives in our latest blog post. Read more: oipauk.org/2026/10/19/o...

oipauk.orgOpen Access Week 2026Open Access Week 2026 It’s International Open Access Week (19th to 25th October 2026) and the theme is ‘The Cost of Knowledge’. We have been reflecting on this theme – and s…

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We are pleased to be collaborating with @janewayolh.bsky.social to develop and extend open-source infrastructure that will support parts of article submission process. ➡️ Read more: plos.io/4zGY0kj

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@janewayolh.bsky.social is pleased to announce a new collaboration with @plos.org to extend Janeway for parts of PLOS’s article submission process. PLOS will contribute code, expertise and ideas upstream, strengthening shared open-source publishing infrastructure. www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/

openlibhums.orgPLOS and Janeway Collaborate to Develop Open-Source Publishing InfrastructureJaneway is pleased to announce a new collaboration with PLOS to develop and extend the Janeway codebase for use in parts of PLOS’s article submission process. As part of the …
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Looking forward to contributing to this important conversation on the costs of #diamondOA. #OAWeek

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On 22 October, as part of #OAweek, @openlibhums.org Executive Director Prof Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social will speak at a webinar hosted by the National Library of Sweden exploring the costs and funding of diamond open access 💎 More details: 🔗 www.kb.se/for-bibliote... #OpenAccess

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New publication: "Platformised Performances: Spoken Word Poetry in the Algorithmic Age" by Camille Dasseleer: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of #OLHjournal "Poetry off the Page: International Advances in Poetry Performance Research"

doi.orgPlatformised Performances: Spoken Word Poetry in the Algorithmic AgeThis article analyses the consequences of the platformisation of spoken word practices. It identifies some of the paradoxes that appear when the countercultural and anti-hegemonic features of the spoken word tradition come into contact with the one-sided, hegemonic governance of dominant digital platforms, as well as with their culturally biased algorithms. The case study of Mexican poet Pilar Rodríguez Aranda is analysed in order to highlight the obstacles to politically engaged poetry. The article emphasises the need to adopt a critical, decolonial and post-global understanding of platforms and artificial intelligence in order to understand the potential incompatibilities between counter-hegemonic spoken word poetry and hegemonic digital technologies.
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The new UKRI research data policy is an important step, and hopefully it will create further incentives to move towards non-commercial research infrastructure and reduce proprietary lock-in.

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I've been quoted in today's @resprofnews.bsky.social article on UKRI's new research data policy. I think the new policy strengthens UKRI’s move away from commercial models & should help universities challenge proprietary lock-in of research data. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

researchprofessionalnews.com‘Sharper and clearer’ UKRI policy on research data praised - Research Professional NewsOpen science experts welcome drive to improve availability of publicly funded research data
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Very pleased to announce that Anatolian Studies (@thebiaankara.bsky.social) is moving to OLH! Previously published by Cambridge University Press under a hybrid OA model, the journal is now #DiamondOA, supported by OLH's network of 340+ universities worldwide. 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/news/1026/

openlibhums.orgAnatolian Studies moves to the Open Library of HumanitiesWe are very pleased to welcome Anatolian Studies to our portfolio of diamond open access journals. Anatolian Studies is the fifth journal to move to the Open Library of Humanities …

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Andy Byers
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I’m currently in the “happiest place on earth”, Disneyland, so more to say on this later but this is just beyond our wildest imagination all those years ago thinking “how hard can it be?” Much credit goes to @eve.gd for his ridiculous belief that I could pull off a development project of this scale.

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@janewayolh.bsky.social is pleased to announce a new collaboration with @plos.org to extend Janeway for parts of PLOS’s article submission process. PLOS will contribute code, expertise and ideas upstream, strengthening shared open-source publishing infrastructure. www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/

openlibhums.orgPLOS and Janeway Collaborate to Develop Open-Source Publishing InfrastructureJaneway is pleased to announce a new collaboration with PLOS to develop and extend the Janeway codebase for use in parts of PLOS’s article submission process. As part of the …

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This makes me feel so proud of @openlibhums.org - truly epic and once a dream of mine. Living vicariously.

Professor Caroline Edwards@theblochian.bsky.social

Fantastic to announce our @openlibhums.org tech team are collaborating with @plos.org to develop @janewayolh.bsky.social. As Tom Scott from PLOS writes: “Open, community-developed infrastructure is essential to the future of scholarly publishing & Janeway is an important part of that future.”

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Professor Caroline Edwards
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Fantastic to announce our @openlibhums.org tech team are collaborating with @plos.org to develop @janewayolh.bsky.social. As Tom Scott from PLOS writes: “Open, community-developed infrastructure is essential to the future of scholarly publishing & Janeway is an important part of that future.”

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@janewayolh.bsky.social is pleased to announce a new collaboration with @plos.org to extend Janeway for parts of PLOS’s article submission process. PLOS will contribute code, expertise and ideas upstream, strengthening shared open-source publishing infrastructure. www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/

openlibhums.orgPLOS and Janeway Collaborate to Develop Open-Source Publishing InfrastructureJaneway is pleased to announce a new collaboration with PLOS to develop and extend the Janeway codebase for use in parts of PLOS’s article submission process. As part of the …
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@janewayolh.bsky.social is pleased to announce a new collaboration with @plos.org to extend Janeway for parts of PLOS’s article submission process. PLOS will contribute code, expertise and ideas upstream, strengthening shared open-source publishing infrastructure. www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/

openlibhums.orgPLOS and Janeway Collaborate to Develop Open-Source Publishing InfrastructureJaneway is pleased to announce a new collaboration with PLOS to develop and extend the Janeway codebase for use in parts of PLOS’s article submission process. As part of the …
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New article: "Watching Them Fall: Mountain Climbing, Voyeurism and the Pornography of Risk" by Cyprian Piskurek: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, "Seismic Shifts in Mountaineering: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities"

doi.orgWatching Them Fall: Mountain Climbing, Voyeurism and the Pornography of RiskFrom Victorian mountaineer Albert Smith to the members in George Mallory’s expeditions, there has always been a public side to many climbers, which allowed various forms of discourse to narrate these ...
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New article: "The Development of Vernacular Creativity in the Context of The Culture of Neural Networks" by Karel Piorecký and Zuzana Husárová: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, "Contemporary Perspectives on AI and Narrative"

doi.orgThe Development of Vernacular Creativity in the Context of The Culture of Neural NetworksThe literary research paper proposes the concept of the reskilling phase into the research oriented at the implementation of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process, especially in th...
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"Lost and Found: (Non-)translation and Transmission of Affect in Multilingual Poetry Performance" by Sonja Faaren Ruud, now published in #OLHJournal: doi.org/10.16995/olh... The first article in our Special Collection, Poetry off the Page: International Advances in Poetry Performance Research

doi.orgLost and Found: (Non-)translation and Transmission of Affect in Multilingual Poetry PerformanceWhile reading an untranslated poem in a language you do not understand may not elicit an emotional response or feeling of connection to the writer, poetry performances open up possibilities for creati...
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New publication in the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social: "Two neglected origins of inequality: Hierarchical power and care work" by Armanda Cetrulo, Dario Guarascio & Maria Enrica Virgillito: doi.org/10.16995/ilr... Also available in French and Spanish

doi.orgTwo neglected origins of inequality: Hierarchical power and care workAre wages a good proxy of the value of labour? Or do they largely reflect socio-institutional practices according to which a manager deserves to be paid more than a nurse? This paper studies the deter...
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New publication (in German): '"Bühnen exzessiven Denkens". Die Produktivität figurentheatraler Spielweisen am Beispiel der Inszenierungsarbeiten von Katharina Kummer' by Jessica Hölzl: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action

doi.org"Bühnen exzessiven Denkens". Die Produktivität figurentheatraler Spielweisen am Beispiel der Inszenierungsarbeiten von Katharina KummerUnter dem Titel Bühnen exzessiven Denkens begibt sich der Artikel auf die Suche nach Verbindungslinien zwischen Figurentheater und Roman. Im Fokus steht dabei die Analyse spezifischer Potenziale mater...

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Just out in Semantics of Natural Languages: Yurika Aonuki on "Scale-sensitivity of comparatives and measure phrase interpretations in Gitksan" snl-journal.org/article/id/2...

snl-journal.orgScale-sensitivity of comparatives and measure phrase interpretations in GitksanThis paper demonstrates that in Gitksan, measure phrases (MPs) occurring with relative gradable adjectives (GAs) like ’wii ’nakw ‘tall’ receive differential interpretations even in the absence of an o...
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Read the editorial for the Genealogy+Critique special collection “Foucault and Marx: Legacies, Ambivalences and Future Struggles,” edited by Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Evi Jägle and Jonas Oßwald:

doi.orgFoucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future StrugglesIn this editorial for the special collection "Foucault and Marx: Legacies, Ambivalences and Future Struggles," we address a topic that has remained marginalized in Foucault scholarship. Against the common premise of Foucault's anti-Marxism, we recall the positive references, theoretical parallels, and explicit connections to Marx in Foucault's work and argue that Foucault mobilizes Marx against Marxism in a heterodox way. An outcome of the international symposium held from 18 to 19 October 2024 at the University of Vienna, the collection follows four lines of discussion: historical-philological, author-focused, conceptual, and emancipative-political. Its five contributions address destruction, the biopolitics of social reproduction, a "disjunctive conjunction" of Marx and Foucault, capitalist time regimes via Postone, and de Lauretis's queer-feminist reading of Althusser and Foucault.
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New publication in Semantics of Natural Languages / @semnatlangs.bsky.social: "Sentiment-linked quantification among adjectives" by Lelia Glass (Lelia Glass):

doi.orgSentiment-linked quantification among adjectivesYoon (1996) observed that The cups are clean is taken by default to describe all the cups, while The cups are dirty might describe only some of them. This paper grounds Yoon's clean/dirty contrast in the sentiment (valence) of these adjectives: clean is desirable, dirty undesirable. Sentiment is linked to quantification through the longstanding idea, known as the Anna Karenina Principle, that a good situation must be all good, while any bad element makes it bad. Assuming that "Is the current situation okay?'' is a common Question Under Discussion across contexts, positive‐sentiment adjectives are easily taken to answer this question affirmatively, conveying that the current situation is all okay; while negative‐sentiment adjectives are taken to answer it negatively, conveying that there is at least something wrong. Using quantitative data, this analysis is argued to explain not just Yoon's clean/dirty contrast, but also further instances of variable quantificational force among adjectives in the domains of degrees and dimensions. This paper breaks new ground in deriving (a priori emotionless) logical inferences from sentiment, a relatively less‐explored topic in formal semantics.

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Murujosa, Marisol & Gattei, Carolina A. & Shalom, Diego E. & Sevilla, Yamila. 2026. The subject/object asymmetry revisited: Comprehending relative clauses with psychological verbs in Spanish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–37. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics

doi.orgThe subject/object asymmetry revisited: comprehending relative clauses with psychological verbs in SpanishThis study outlines an auditory comprehension task of relative clauses with Argentine Spanish object-experiencer psychological (e.g., gustar ‘to like’) and activity (e.g., sonreír ‘to smile’) predicat...

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Rosemeyer, Malte & Heine, Julia. 2026. Subjective syntax: Fronted and non-fronted French de nouveau (‘again’). Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–46. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess

doi.orgSubjective syntax. Fronted and non-fronted French <em>de nouveau</em> ('again')While the left periphery of French sentences has been associated with pragmatic functions such as focalization and topicalization, a unified account of fronting phenomena is still lacking. This study ...

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Frasson, Alberto & Klimek-Jankowska, Dorota & Żak, Andrzej & Mocniak, Antonina. 2026. A story of perfect agreement in Latvian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–40. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo... #linguistics #DiamondOpenAccess

doi.orgA story of perfect agreement in LatvianThis paper investigates the syntax of the Latvian present perfect within the Minimalist Program, adopting an exoskeletal perspective on morphosyntactic structure. While cross-linguistically the perfec...
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New publication: "Walking from the 19th to the 21st Century: from Baudelaire’s to Jean-Christophe Bailly’s Paris" by Julia Ori: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies

doi.orgWalking from the 19th to the 21st Century: from Baudelaire’s to Jean-Christophe Bailly’s ParisThis paper examines the continuities and ruptures in walking practices in Paris from the 19th to the 21st century, focusing on the works of philosopher and essayist Jean-Christophe Bailly and his dial...