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Brett Boessen

The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • we need to think less about completed products and more about text in process; less about individual authorship and more about collaboration; less about originality and more about remix; less about ownership and more about sharing.
  • The digital humanities
  • can help
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  • open up the conversation to the public whose support the traditional humanities has lost. If anyone and everyone can join in, if the invitation of open access is widely accepted, appreciation of what humanists do will grow beyond the confines of the university
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    Stanley Fish engages Kathleen Fitzpatrick and digital humanities.
Brett Boessen

Xefer Wikipedia Radial Graph - 0 views

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    This site mines Wikipedia to return which first links on each page deliver you to the "philosophy" wikipedia entry.
Brett Boessen

Ian Bogost - Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground - 1 views

  • Digital humanists eschew the label "computational" because it draws an uneasy connection to computer science, whereas scientists embrace it because, hey, who doesn't use computation?
  • the digital humanities more frequently adopt rather than invent their tools
  • Let's imagine the best scenario. If the humanities are an agency of espionage, then the digital humanities would be its Q Division, the R&D arm that invents and deploys new methods in support of its mission. But we're not there. We're not close. How come?
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  • This is a bittersweet pill. On the one hand, it's encouraging that the digital humanities look to the outside for inspiration and influence—it's one example of a re-orientation of humanistic practice toward the world and its interests. But on the other hand, the rationale for that orientation is somewhat perverted; it is motivated primarily by an inward-looking reformational interest. This is why so much of the talk in digital humanities is about digital humanities. This is institution-building, not world-building.
  • worst case
  • techno-liberalism
  • the digital humanities becomes an organizational-political lever to advance arguments for the reformation of the humanities, but whose means of reformation is primarily self-reflexive, and whose manner of executing on that self-reflexive reformation relies largely on imported materials and methods to bulk up the ramparts that would protect humanism from the world it might otherwise enter
  • But the lower faculties must resist the temptation to partake of daily life only just enough to mine convenient resources into makeshift parapets
Michelle Kassorla

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Announcements - 0 views

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    DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly DHQ is seeking one or more new Reviews Editors to recruit and oversee reviews of all forms of digital humanities publication. The Reviews Editors work as a team to solicit and edit reviews of books, software tools, digital publications, and other appropriate reviewable content.
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