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Brett Boessen

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea - 1 views

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  • All these new tools are incredible for making rapid-fire discoveries and associations, but you need a broad background of knowledge to prime you for those discoveries
    • Brett Boessen
      Brett Boessen on 19 Dec 11
       
      Sounds like a nod to liberal education to me.
  • It's the social life of information, in John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid's wonderful phrase -- we just have so many more ways of being social now
  • people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly
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  • this simple, but amazing fact: almost none of this--Twitter, blogs, PDFs, eBooks, Google, Findings--would have been intelligible to a writer fifteen years ago
  • Brett Boessen on 19 Dec 11
     
    Lovely mapping of the social development of an idea.   One of his takeaways, point 3, is essentially that one ought to be as liberally educated as possible (though he doesn't use that phrase).
Rebecca Davis

THATCamp LAC: Digital Humanities goes unconferenced | The power of persuasion - 1 views

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shared by Rebecca Davis on 07 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Rebecca Davis on 07 Jun 11
     
    blog post by Ryan Hoover
Brett Boessen

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

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shared by Brett Boessen on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • 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
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