Tom Melick Tom Melick is a writer, editor and teacher. He co-edits the pamphlet series Slug (slug.directory). All essays by Tom Melick Technology Essay: Andrew BrooksTom Melickon the spreadsheet University.xlsx In the heat of this unfolding crisis, vice-chancellors accidentally reveal the underlying logics of the spreadsheet. Budgets must be reduced, savings must be made; they tell us this as they consult the spreadsheet that surrounds them like a moat. The spreadsheet contains hard data, raw data, objective truths, they say. The numbers don’t lie. But the document is as much an operation of judgement as it is one of fiscal analysis; the spreadsheet obscures as much as it reveals. Dec. 2020 • The university • Work • Technology New Nature Review: Tom Melickon a natural history of the wind Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall Watson New York Review of Books 400pp Published August, 2019 ISBN 9781681373690 A Breathing Exercise What I remember is my grandmother teaching me how to draw the wind. Sep. 2019 • Environment and climate • Non-fiction • New Nature
