Archive for November, 2016
Save us from ourselves?
A lot of the problems in the humanities are shared to a lesser degree across most university departments, “… especially palpable in California, where the UC and CSU systems have only intensified their corporatism under continued funding cutbacks from the state” (Grusin). The budget cuts have several problems. First, it raises the cost of education […]
I’m going to be an idealist for a minute
Over the course of this semester, I’ve gone back and forth about what I think DH is or should be, and I haven’t fully settled on an answer. What I have settled on, however, is that DH seems to be something very different from traditional humanities and a better distinction should be made between the […]
Overtime: Academics must Walk the Talk
It is difficult for me to think of an approach to anything that is clearly related to politics [as in structures of power, but also in the governmental/administration sense] without including advocacy as a means of change. Whether or not advocacy is 100% effective is a different conversation. I make call to action for many […]
Future Plan
First off, the digital humanities should definitely be concerned with the transfer of neoliberal policies to the university. This is an issue that affects everyone in the university in the long-term and brings the idea of education itself into question. Neoliberalism in universities is something every academic should be aware of and actively analyzing, if […]
11/28 Response
When thinking about how to prevent increased corporatization in the university system, the first thing that came to my mind was to have all departments come up with a minimum operating budget, an ideal operating budget, and an extravagant operating budget. Based on those budgets, an accounting firm or some other separate board can give […]
Education Shmeducation
Chun et al., “Darkside of the digital humanities” brings up a lot of valid points regarding the sanctity of digital humanities. Within all this, the question with Universities are brought up and how we can save corporatization with universities. I personally believe that Wendy Chun makes a valid point when she states, “I also want […]
Prompt 11/28: Chun et al., “Darkside of the Digital Humanities”
Last week, we read an essay by Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia arguing that the digital humanities are, as a field, contributing to the “neoliberal” / corporate takeover of the modern university — not just in the U.S., but in countries like the U.K. and Canada as well. Then, for class today, we […]
Response to Golumbia
Though the article gave a factual history of DH, it did so with the bias in mind that DH is doomed and that it won’t become an actual academic work. It seems that it doesn’t fully commit to their statement that DH “as proved itself so useful to university administrators and to funding bodies”. The […]
Golumbia Response – 11/14
I think the essay describes DH effectively in that it addresses some of the previous concerns of Digital Humanists but also raises new questions and perspectives. The argument, as in previous essays, that DH is changing the field of the humanities is again present in this text: “Digital Humanities has often tended to be anti-interpretive, […]
Clarity at Last?!?!?!?
Given everything that we have read thus far, I think it is safe to say that this latest piece by Golumbia et. Al takes the cake in terms of a viable, relatively complete -as far as I know!- history and definition attempt. The only author whose historical narrative of DH I vividly recall would […]
