Between Humanities and the Digital

by Svensson, Patrik; Goldberg, David Theo

• ISBN13: 9780262549929
• ISBN10: 0262549921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-12-05
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities.

Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology as both a scholarly tool and a cultural object in need of analysis.

The contributors explore the state of the art in digital humanities from varied disciplinary perspectives, offer a sample of digitally inflected work that ranges from an analysis of computational literature to the collaborative development of a “Global Middle Ages” humanities platform, and examine new models for knowledge production and infrastructure. Their contributions show not only that the digital has prompted the humanities to move beyond traditional scholarly horizons, but also that the humanities have pushed the digital to become more than a narrowly technical application.

Contributors
Ian Bogost, Anne Cong-Huyen, Mats Dahlström, Cathy N. Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Amy E. Earhart, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Maurizio Forte, Zephyr Frank, David Theo Goldberg, Jennifer González, Jo Guldi, N. Katherine Hayles, Geraldine Heng, Larissa Hjorth, Tim Hutchings, Henry Jenkins, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Cecilia Lindhé, Alan Liu, Elizabeth Losh, Tara McPherson, Chandra Mukerji, Nick Montfort, Jenna Ng, Bethany Nowviskie, Jennie Olofsson, Lisa Parks, Natalie Phillips, Todd Presner, Stephen Rachman, Patricia Seed, Nishant Shah, Ray Siemens, Jentery Sayers, Jonathan Sterne, Patrik Svensson, William G. Thomas III, Whitney Anne Trettien, Michael Widner

Author Biography

Patrik Svensson is Professor of Digital Humanities and former Director of HUMlab (2000¬2014) at Umeå University, Sweden.

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
 Acknowledgments xiii
 Introduction 1
 I THE FIELD OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 9
 1 The Example: Some Historical Considerations 17
 Jonathan Sterne
 2 Humanities in the Digital Age 35
 Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III
 3 Me? A Digital Humanist? 41
 Chandra Mukerji
 4 Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities 55
 Todd Presner
 5 “ Does This Technology Serve Human Purposes? ” A “ Necessary Conversation ” with Sherry Turkle 69
 Henry Jenkins
 6 Humanist Computing at the End of the Individual Voice and the Authoritative Text 83
 Johanna Drucker
7 Beyond Infrastructure: Re-humanizing Digital Humanities in India 95
 Nishant Shah
 8 Toward a Transnational Asian/American Digital Humanities: A #transformDH Invitation 109
 Anne Cong-Huyen
 9 Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground 121
 Ian Bogost
 10 Why Yack Needs Hack (and Vice versa): From Digital Humanities to Digital Literacy 131
 Cathy N. Davidson
 11 Toward Problem-Based Modeling in the Digital Humanities 145
 Ray Siemens and Jentery Sayers
 12 Deprovincializing Digital Humanities 163
 David Theo Goldberg
 II INFLECTING FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES 173
 13 Circuit-Bending History: Sketches toward a Digital Schematic 181
 Whitney Anne Trettien
 14 Medieval Materiality through the Digital Lens 193
 Cecilia Lindh é
 15 Computational Literature 205
 Nick Montfort
 16 The Cut between Us: Digital Remix and the Expression of Self 217
 Jenna Ng
 17 Locating the Mobile and Social: A Preliminary Discussion of Camera Phones and Locative Media 229
 Larissa Hjorth
18 “ Did You Mean ‘ Why Are Women Cranky? ’ ” Google — A Means of Inscription, a Means of De-Inscription? 243
 Jennie Olofsson
 19 Time Wars of the Twentieth Century and the Twenty-first Century Toolkit: The History and Politics of Longue-duree Thinking as a Prelude to the Digital Analysis of the Past 253
 Jo Guldi
 20 An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities: Envisioning Globalities 500 – 1500 CE 267
 Geraldine Heng and Michael Widner
 21 Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion 283
 Tim Hutchings
 22 Cyber Archaeology: A Post-virtual Perspective 295
 Maurizio Forte
 23 Literature, Neuroscience, and Digital Humanities 311
 Natalie Phillips and Stephen Rachman
 III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, LEARNING, AND INFRASTRUCTURE 329
 24 The Humanistiscope — Exploring the Situatedness of Humanities Infrastructure 337
 Patrik Svensson
 25 “ Stuff You Can Kick ” : Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures 355
 Lisa Parks
 26 Distant Mirrors and the LAMP 375
 Matthew Kirschenbaum
 27 Resistance in the Materials 383
 Bethany Nowviskie
28 The Digital Humanities as a Laboratory 391
 Amy E. Earhart
 29 A Map Is Not a Picture: How the Digital World Threatens the Validity of Printed Maps 401
 Patricia Seed
 30 Spatial History as Scholarly Practice 411
 Zephyr Frank
 31 Utopian Pedagogies: Teaching from the Margins of the Digital Humanities 429
 Elizabeth Losh
 32 The Face and the Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice 441
 Jennifer Gonz á lez
 33 Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age 457
 Kathleen Fitzpatrick
 34 Critical Transmission 467
 Mats Dahlstr ö m
 35 Post-Archive: The Humanities, the Archive, and the Database 483
 Tara McPherson
 36 Final Commentary: A Provocation 503
 N. Katherine Hayles
 References 507
 Index 565