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, […]
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 […]
