A Post about McGann
I think McGann is highlighting the importance of learning all about the digital tools and methods that are to be used in acquiring the digital humanities language. How valuable it is to the filed and to its future. He illustrates the value of information technology by using the verb “master” which indicates that humanists need […]
McGann
In Jerome McGann’s essay “Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities”, he focuses on the impending future of the humanities. In a few places, he mentions the benefits of the humanities quickly becoming digitized, but, all in all, his essay efforts surround the fact that we, as studentsof the humanities, will have to soon change our […]
McGann Response
Swinburne’s quote “glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of things” is exactly how the human mind works. Since the beginning of time, people have pushed to evolve. They built roads and learns agriculture. Everything they did was to make life easier. Digital Humanities is just another way for the world […]
McGann Response
In writing “Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities”, James McGann speaks of a “train”, saying, “…whether we choose to or not, we should all be clear about the slow train that’s coming and that won’t be sidetracked” (McGann 63). The “slow train”, the one “that won’t be sidetracked”, seems to be the call for […]
Trask-McGann Response
For McGann, the relationship/bond between humanists and the objects they choose to study-texts, artifacts, etc. is a practically unbreakable one given that one cannot properly exist without the other. What would humanists as subjects/inventors & main attractions have to pass their days with if it wasn’t for their close study of the things/software prototypes (objects) […]
McGann Response
The relationship between humanist as people and humanities as a collection of methods is static and because of this, is dissipating. Humanities as a scholarship has been around for centuries and since it had become so successful for such a long period of time, people do not want to change. What McGann is arguing is […]
McGann Response
From McGann’s perspective, human beings are not simply the masters of things, but rather we are more suited to be viewed as “participants and students,” who are constantly learning. Humans collectively can only become greater, and reach the potential status of mastery through educating ourselves with new objects of study and learning how these […]
McGann Response
McGann certainly has a more enthusiastic approach to the tools of digital humanities than other self-described “traditional” scholars. That stance coming from that of mastery rather than participation. McGann is sure to say, “Of people and of life events we are and always will be participants and students, never masters” (62). But of things, like […]
McGann Response
“We have to get going now, we can’t wait to see if there’s more to learn” (63). In his essay on the Digital Humanities, Jerome McGann writes about major issues he sees in the field. He argues that while the world is being transformed by new technology, the humanities are struggling to catch up. At a recent […]
McGann Response
McGann’s argument offers a multidimensional approach to the relationship between humanists as people and the humanities. He argues “integrating digital technology into our scholarship will have to be pursued on as broad a scale as possible” (51). At the same time, he also states, “we have to restore textual and bibliographical work to the center […]
