11/28 Prompt
¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 1 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 other opinions of the general public? If the desire is to change the shift in digital humanities from these neoliberal ideas and the academy, perhaps it would be better to involve “outsiders” that are not as familiar with DH. Despite the concerns though, I’m not sure that DH should necessarily be tampered with in that way, especially since the field is working on what the definition of Digital Humanities is alongside these other issues.
Is this what Golumbia et al. in the LARB piece was trying to do? As self-identified outsiders, and by publishing in a more public, if you will, space, weren’t they trying to involve people not so entangled within DH? Maybe they weren’t entirely successful in their attempt as some people mentioned in class, but the attempt, I think, is there. So if its not working all that well, what could be done better? Or maybe this isn’t the answer? I don’t know yet, but I think you bring up some interesting things to consider in light of that piece.