Archive for November, 2016
A Darker Humanities
“It is clear that the 21st century university is fundamentally networked, nearly impossible to envisage without the objects and methodological practices of the computational sciences.” While this is true, and every department uses computers to some degree, it is the humanities that are hit hardest. Computers were supposed to change the discipline, to led it […]
11/28 Prompt
As a discipline, I think what DH’ers can do to disrupt or complicate the relationship between digital methods and neoliberal practice is to further engage the public in the conversations and practices of Digital Humanities. If the concern is the “encroachment of corporatized logic within the university”, why not involve other spheres of technology and […]
A rock and a hard place
Much of what we’ve read this semester has lead to the conclusion that DH, when considered in the context of neoliberal practices in universities and the commoditization of scholarly work is one step closer to the devil than traditional humanities programs. This could be because it’s come up much more recently as a discipline, and […]
11/28 response
I suppose to begin, its best to outline where I see the responsibilities existing, and then how they will ultimately play into what can, and ultimately needs to be done. To an extent, I think Digital Humanists can take some responsibility to start to separate the field of DH from the corporatization of the University, insofar […]
Neoliberal DH
Reading over the essays and thinking about DH in my own university, I can’t really give an option as to how DH and neoliberalism can separate and still be successful. It might be a pessimistic tone, but think about it. The university system has now turned corporate and as a company, everything is about […]
DH can do
Now that we are at the end of talking about DH, I feel a little disappointed and perhaps sad that this exciting field is being drifted in the talk about “the corporatization of the academy”, but I guess since DH a part of scholarship, there is no escape from talking about the university. After reading […]
How to Fix DH
I think that in order to fix this “DH problem”, some changes are going to have to be made, and they can’t just continually be small, slow ones, like the steps that we’ve been studying all semester. In order to respond, or retaliate, against what they are viewing as DH’s downward spiral, the scholars and […]
Cynicism at Its Finest: Aka Nothing Will Change
In “The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities” , Lauren Berlant’s term ‘cruel optimism’ is used by Chun to argue that DH is nothing more than a means to an end from a disciplinary perspective. In other words it serves as a bastion of false hope for present-day humanists much like the “American Dream’ […]
The Next Steps for DH
Seeing that professionals both inside and outside the digital humanities are concerned with DH’s relation to the neoliberal takeover of the university, I think the DH community should make significant efforts toward solving the problem. I do not believe it is the sole responsibility of the DH community, because neoliberalism in the university is a much […]
Breaking Down Distinctions
As a field, the Digital Humanities can respond to the encroaching logic and practice of corporate neoliberalism by being more inclusive of traditional humanist practices of critique. When DH bills itself as the discipline of doers, of builders, to the neglect of more traditional forms of critique (or critique in general), they contribute, perhaps indirectly, […]
