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The Digital Humanities as Thunderdome

Dan Cohen’s newly relaunched Digital Humanities Now is a great place to get the pulse of the DH community.  One of the pieces I found there was Natalia Cecire’s When DH Was in Vogue; or, THATCamp Theory. Cecire, who is … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Composite

While working on a vector rendition of the Farnese Atlas, a sculpture now residing in Naples that was carved in the 2nd century as a copy of a Greek sculpture possibly dating back to the 2nd century BCE, I realized … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Legacy

Roberto Busa died on Monday.  He was 97.  My first exposure to the old Jesuit was the foreword to A Companion to Digital Humanities, where he wrote of the grace of God in the invention of magnetic media.  Busa’s “Perspectives … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Hackerspace

Today is the first attempt at creating a Humanities Hackerspace here at Stanford.  I’ll be joining Ryan Heuser, hacker and lab manager for the Literary Lab, and the possibility of more Stanford alt-ac types (like Academic Technology Specialists Matt Jockers … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Lightning Rod

The recent New York Times story on Franco Moretti’s & Matt Jockers’ Stanford Lit Lab presents two classic criticisms of the Digital Humanities: that it is scientism at worst and, at best, using computers to do what humans can already … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Culturomics

Erez Aiden and JB Michel just finished their keynote and signaled the end of DH11 (except for a dinner and a few tours of Northern California) and capped off what was, for me, an extremely enjoyable and terribly useful conference.  … Continue reading

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Apropos of my recent post on spatial services, I just noticed that DHQ has Patrik Svensson’s latest DH article up, which this time deals with practical and conceptual infrastructure being developed to support DH. This is simultaneously my first “aside” … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Chance to Show Off

DH11 is coming up soon and, given that I had to take out a second mortgage to pay the registration fee, I’m going to make sure to have a host of beautiful and perhaps even informative visualizations of the work … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Content

The following is derived from a presentation I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to give to the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) advisory council on the subject of supporting humanities faculty interested in doing Digital … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Marginal Sub-Field

Here I am in Honolulu at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, where I will be presenting on Day 5, the last day, during the final set of presentations, as part of the only panel mentioning the Digital Humanities, … Continue reading

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