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Class 1 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

 

  • Enrollment / Sign-up sheet / auditors (project and short assignments)
  • Books, reader, course log in
  • Course site: http://english236w2010.pbworks.com/

 

1. Course Rationale


Disciplinary Rationale: Toward a Next-Generation Digital Humanities

  • Generations of  Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities (some data points):

     

    1. Roberto Busa, S.J. (and associates), Index Thomisticus (begun in 1946; web edition in 2005 by Eduardo Bernot and Enrique Alarcón)

       

      Jerome J. McGann, "Literary Scholarship in the Digital Future," The Chronicle Review [Chronicle of Higher Education], 49.16 (13 Dec. 2002): B7

       

      [Cf. philological and textual-editing traditions descended from the 19th century--e.g., the OED]

       

    2. JISC, NEH, NSF, SSHRC 2009 "Digging into Data" Challenge Grant Competition [Cf. Cathy Davidson on "Big Humanities"]

       

      NEH "Humanities High-Performance Computing" Grant Program

       

      Swansea University "The Computational Turn" Conference, 2010

       

      UCSD Software Studies Program's "Cultural Analytics" Initiative (Jeremy Douglass, Cultural Analytics demo

       

      • "Distant Reading"
        • Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 1-4
      • "Deformance" Reading
      • Non-Hermeneutic (Non-Interpretive) Reading
        • Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks, 1800/1900, trans. Michael Metteer with Chris Cullens (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990) (orig. pub. in German in 1985 as Aufscreibesysteme)
        • Friedrich A. Kittler, "There Is No Software," CTheory (Oct. 10, 1995)

       

       

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