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Am I a Silicon Sith Lord?
After reading both the LARB essay and the Kirschenbaum response, I am more inclined to believe that the authors of the LARB essay are being too paranoid in their claims – but I wonder if scholars like Kirschenbaum and Spiro are truly brainwashed by the administration, as the LARB article suggests? If they are, we […]
Golumbia isn’t letting us go that easy.
I read my article printed out from the LARB website directly, not from your PDF, so I apologize if our pagination is off. Toward the end of the essay the authors note an aspect of the kind of backlash they expect to receive. “We know we will be read as outsiders” [18]. They say this […]
11/14 Response
Allington, Brouillette, and Golumbia do appear to be reflecting and describing DH accurately, although perhaps not entirely, offering only one perspective of the narrative belonging to DH. Focusing specifically on the push-back and hesitation regarding DH in an academic setting, Golumbia et al outlines this issue quite clearly, saying, “But the unparalleled level of material support […]
Compromise – 11/14 Response
Given everything we’ve read this semester, it’s difficult to evaluate the truthfulness of the Golumbia et al post. It would appear that this field is dramatically split into two sides and without more (outside) perspectives, it’s difficult to make an accurate judgement. For example, I would like to hear from college administration staff about the […]
Neoliberal
I think that the narrative on Digital Humanities and their stance on the topic, specifically in neoliberalism, is quite interesting. Golumbia et al, Neoliberal Tools, raises an interesting issue that I never thought about. They state, on page 2 “What Digital Humanities is not about, despite its explicit claims, is the use of digital or […]
Paranoid Tools–Response to 11/14 Prompt
The argument made by Allington, Brouillette, and Golumbia does not seem, in my opinion, to be a total misreading of the history of DH, but nor is it entirely accurate. It seems, rather, to be looking at the rise of DH from a different perspective than what we’ve seen from other authors actually working in the […]
Neoliberalism in Literary Study
Alan Liu, a supporter of the digital humanities wrote, “not even the cliched forms of such issues – for example, ‘the digital divide,’ ‘surveillance,’ ‘privacy,’ ‘copyright,’ and so on – get much play.” Those are all tools of the digital humanities and they aren’t being talked about. They are barely even mentioned. The digital humanities […]
Neoliberal Tools- 11/14 Response
The authors of “Neoliberal Tools” made compelling arguments about the digital humanities field, and I can certainly understand and sympathize with their argument. Their point about the tendencies of DH as “signs that the Digital Humanities as social and institutional movement is a reactionary force in literary studies, pushing the discipline toward post-interpretative, non-suspicious, technocratic, […]
11/14 Golumbia, Brouillette, & Allington
What the authors of Neoliberal Tools have to say about the beginnings and evolution of DH stand in contrast to what many other scholars have written on the subject previously this semester. One thing that was immediately apparent in reading their article was what they highlight as the beginnings of Humanities Computing. As they elucidate, “Humanities […]
Neoliberal Tools
It’s hard to determine which aspects of the LABR text to consider thoughtfully and which to ignore, because with a new take on the DH such as this one, the truth of the matter is difficult to decipher from the falsities, such as the claim that DH is established and run by administration. If that’s […]
