or, The yack of the hack of the yack How we should go about mining the digital archive of the history of scholarship for theoretical resources? Let’s talk about text-mining journals, quantitatively analyzing metadata about scholarship, and living with closed access as theorists. And perhaps we can work on a dataset or two—I’ll bring some …
Category Archive: Session Proposals
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Oct 10
Critical Theory, Philosophy of Science and New Media
I am proposing a session that I hope will call upon the collective interest of any members in the humanities whose work intersect with critical questions in science and the history of science in any way. As scholars in the fields of the humanities, including that of history, are turning increasingly to digital tools that …
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Oct 01
Failure
I’d like to converse about failure, something that has been central to discussions of DH and of critical theory — as well as to those suspicious of either or both. And rather than rattle off a list of that stuff here, it seems like it’d be a lot more interesting to see what everyone could …
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Sep 23
The Code Behind Theory
Once in a while you will hear me half-joke that I can find a digital humanities angle in any project coming out of the humanities. Of course, since most if not all projects in the humanities have a document, spatial and/or temporal component, that rash claim can become a boring truism fairly quick. Being in …
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