SAH Commons | Tom White | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/tomwhite/activity/ Activity feed for Tom White. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:33:49 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f8edd54c5b8d3c8c15ac1ade2ad3f1ed Tom White deposited A Working History of Digital Zoom, Medieval to Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1832835/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:48:20 -0500 [Article draft from 2020: very of its mid-lockdown moment, but unlikely to be revisiting this, so here it is!]
This article examines one of the most familiar elements of digital interfaces: the zoom tool. By tracing the conceptual, technical, and material histories of
zooming from the late Middle Ages to the present day, it demonstrates how…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d154ce1f7ba071df3a76f5431b16e16 Tom White deposited The Affordances of the Book: A Case Study of the Glastonbury Miscellany (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.9.38) and its Digital Remediation https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1832832/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:39:37 -0500 Article draft from Summer 2021; very unlikely to be revisiting/revising this, so here it is!

This essay argues that recent work on affordances provides a potentially valuable theoretical tool for thinking across the history of the medieval manuscript, from the making and remaking of the codex to the intricacies of its digital remediation. It…[Read more]

]]> 0 101a283006faaf6170c1cce374a890bb Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828128/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:58:32 -0500 0 aee388873b74153e90e3a7f1f06fdfff Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734270/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 19:27:06 -0400 0 5930d3ba3a3b49b657746821e2ddfcb6 Tom White deposited National Philology, Imperial Hierarchies, and the ‘Defective’ Book of Sir John Mandeville https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734269/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 19:20:42 -0400 This article examines when and how the ‘Defective’ version of the Book of Sir John Mandeville came to be called ‘defective’. It describes the use of this name by Sir George F. Warner in an edition produced in 1889 for the elite bibliographic society the Roxburghe Club. Drawing on recent work in disability studies, it argues that the philolo…[Read more]

]]> 0 a74c6812d9eec02dd1db88f47545db9e Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674329/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 14:06:55 -0500 0 f694a9a22c927a12b1dd3248b169af5d Tom White deposited Climate, Power and Possible Futures on the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657100/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 03:48:43 -0400 Paper for Session 10-L, Oecologies II: Terraqueous Transformations: Land, Water and Power in Early/Modern Contexts.

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]]> 0 c6c8bf5ce20a6f949e69827f33ac1ccc Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641104/ Wed, 29 May 2019 03:54:23 -0400 IMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.

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]]> 0 f2ebe8b460c14ea826a29a9bfca7e4e1 Tom White deposited Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637938/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:48:43 -0400 Nayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and quest…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fe731f647d363239159bd18778c73e7 Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637851/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:30:44 -0400 0 6676f46fa2913eaad4677188f3e42505 Tom White deposited Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637850/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:24:37 -0400 Nayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and quest…[Read more]

]]> 0 3246faceb898b35146aee4f1fe130d97 Tom White deposited Dust and the Digital Archive in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623705/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 03:51:07 -0500 This paper links the medieval and early modern production of parchment and paper with modern electronics manufacturing, in order to examine some of the occluded ecological and political dimensions of archival study.

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]]> 0 070478de7f294c28e6996e119dd54ec0 Tom White deposited Paper and Digital Ecologies in the Glastonbury Miscellany (Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38) in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619311/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:50:46 -0400 One of a number of leaves in the manuscript to have been badly damaged in the sixteenth century, folio 89 of the Glastonbury Miscellany reminds its modern readers of the fragmentary nature of the medieval textual record. Work began on this paper manuscript in the middle of the fifteenth century at Glastonbury Abbey. Transported to London in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b571b968442ec2e54f08d4cbfb7bd01e Tom White deposited Paper and Digital Ecologies in the Glastonbury Miscellany (Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38) in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619310/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:48:43 -0400 One of a number of leaves in the manuscript to have been badly damaged in the sixteenth century, folio 89 of the Glastonbury Miscellany reminds its modern readers of the fragmentary nature of the medieval textual record. Work began on this paper manuscript in the middle of the fifteenth century at Glastonbury Abbey. Transported to London in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 dba6b7ed5ca62b6abe6771a9669df894 Tom White deposited Paper and Digital Ecologies in the Glastonbury Miscellany (Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38) https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619266/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:33:50 -0400 One of a number of leaves in the manuscript to have been badly damaged in the sixteenth century, folio 89 of the Glastonbury Miscellany reminds its modern readers of the fragmentary nature of the medieval textual record. Work began on this paper manuscript in the middle of the fifteenth century at Glastonbury Abbey. Transported to London in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 83d5e511790d67ec10e06d91bed9ac8e Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619264/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:29:39 -0400 0 2d0bf65cb35b8702a96902c5965c7df1 Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617018/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:54:45 -0400 Seminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)

Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]

]]> 0 83fb51969f9c5fd04b3d836c66d5a5ee Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617017/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:53:23 -0400 Seminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)

Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fd9a6d516ea030b825deb2867a638ff Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617016/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:51:19 -0400 Seminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)

Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]

]]> 0 71097b1a112a8abf60f773bab0d04b82 Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617015/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:48:43 -0400 Seminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)

Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2a351263fdbaa12fded2f5e71753fa0 Tom White deposited Written in Trees https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1616901/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:20:15 -0400 Seminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)

Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5217bbba224a7b1021fbf0b1fc0a9502 Tom White's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581516/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:33:20 -0400 0 219ff360a58502c4b2151c874dad8a00 Tom White deposited "Systems of Fabric" https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1575220/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 07:57:47 -0400 In the seventh chapter of Rome: the Book of Foundations, philosopher Michel Serres draws a distinction between what he calls “box-thought” and “sack-thought”. “I believe” Serres writes, “that there is box-thought, the thought we call rigorous, like rigid, inflexible boxes, and sack-thought, like systems of fabric”. Serres notes that while boxe…[Read more]

]]> 0 88a65ef338f4fed6223cd2cb0500e6a1 Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1575166/ Tue, 04 Jul 2017 09:28:02 -0400 0 ded1d17e3fd84b2d07169f8a82307982 Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565951/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:53:28 -0400 0 a148bd97b0cfccfc6160f9d56d75b937 Tom White changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565950/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:48:34 -0400 0 eeb3901e614a0ff978868ac526d041bf Tom White's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565373/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:40:50 -0400 0