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The Last Words of Socrates at the Place Where He Died
(2015-03-27)In H24H 24§45, I quote and analyze the passage in Plato’s Phaedo 117a–118a where Socrates dies. His last words, as transmitted by Plato, are directed at all those who have followed Socrates—and who have had the unforgettable ... -
A Layered Model for AI Governance
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)AI-based systems are “black boxes,” resulting in massive information asymmetries between the developers of such systems and consumers and policymakers. In order to bridge this information gap, this article proposes a ... -
Learning to sing, and a dead master of song
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-03-14) -
Legal Reasoning After Post-Modern Critiques of Reason
(Legal Writing Institute, 1997) -
Lelantine War, Eretria and Chalkis, and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-06-01)This post is about a poetic competition or Certamen ‘Contest’ that took place, story has it, between Homer and Hesiod. In all attested versions of the story, Hesiod won and Homer lost. In some versions, as we will see, the ... -
Lessons from Maryland
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Libraries, Power, and Justice: Toward a Sociohistorically Informed Intellectual Freedom
(Progressive Librarian Guild, 2020)This paper critically examines the concept of intellectual freedom (IF) and the central role it plays in the U.S. library and information science (LIS) profession, challenging the concept’s assumed basis in neutrality and ... -
The Library as a garden of the Muses
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-06-05)In the Candide of Voltaire, first published in 1759, the last words famously read: mais il faut cultiver notre jardin ‘but we must cultivate our garden’. Following such a mandate, I return here to cultivate a garden of my ... -
Life Cycle Collection Management
(Igitur. Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services, 2003)Life cycle collection management is a way of taking a long-term approach to the responsible stewardship of the collections of the British Library and is one of the library’s strategic strands. It defines the different ... -
"Life of Homer" myths as evidence for the reception of Homer
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-12-18)This inquiry centers on the surviving texts of ‘Life of Homer’ narrative traditions, to which I refer simply as Lives of Homer. These Lives, I argue, can be read as sources of historical information about the reception of ... -
A living open book
(Ubiquity Press, 2014)This is a case study of my short book, Open Access (Suber 2012a). The book is not “enhanced” in the way that a growing number of digital academic books are enhanced. It has no graphics, no multimedia, and no interactivity ... -
Logical rudeness
(Springer Verlag, 1987) -
Longinus and a theological view of Zeus as god of the sky
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-05-05) -
Looking for references to Sappho’s songs in Athenian vase paintings: preliminary comments
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-10-30)In this essay, I am not looking for references to the text of Sappho’s songs in Athenian vase paintings. Instead, I look merely for traces of pictorial references to the contents of these songs, especially as performed in ... -
Looking through rose-colored glasses while sailing on a sacred journey
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-03)After Theseus dives into the depths of the sea, the sea goddess Amphitrite welcomes him, enveloping the hero in a purple robe (line 112) and crowning his head of hair with a garland made of roses (line 116: ῥόδοις)—a ... -
Mages and Ionians
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-06-25) -
Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-01)The claim that election fraud is a major concern with mail-in ballots has become the central threat to election participation during the Covid-19 pandemic and to the legitimacy of the outcome of the election across the ...