It’s the first pre-conference workshop day for this year’s Digital Humanities conference. I’ll be taking part in the Visualizing Literary History workshop and vigorously protesting the orientalization of California and Californians as depicted by the conference attire, logo, internet password, feeds, &c &c.
California has many model citizens, as well as a vibrant thespian tradition.
I mean, come on, we’re also the home of Yosemite, the Los Angeles Raiders and Bullitt.
Yeah, the whole “surf’s up!” theme strikes me as a little weird. I went to Stanford and lived in the Bay Area for 11 years. I think I went to the beach twice. It ain’t Hawaii.