The end of my academic diary
<p>This is the first academic year when I’m no longer using a paper diary. My scheduling has moved into the cloud. Always in my work bag, following me around, my academic diary is now a ghost of academic years past. The paper-free impulse of interfaces has taken over.</p>
<p>The online calendar may be more efficient, but I miss the rough biro scratches of meetings, supervision, teaching and the like. It’s a small change yet it perhaps points to wider shifts in the rhythms of academic life. The acceleration of efficiency is one thing perhaps. Another is how the unending feed of the online calendar might tell us something of the removal of a sense of a beginning and ending.</p>
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