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In writing \u201cInformation Technology and the Troubled Humanities\u201d, James McGann speaks of a \u201ctrain\u201d, saying, \u201c\u2026whether we choose to or not, we should all be clear about the slow train that\u2019s coming and that won\u2019t be sidetracked\u201d (McGann 63). The \u201cslow train\u201d, the one \u201cthat won\u2019t be sidetracked\u201d, seems to be the call for putting concepts, ideas, and programs, such as NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship), into practice instead of simply discussing them theoretically.\u00a0 It is a call to once again, learn and to then discuss the process.<\/p>\n
Following the Swinburn quote, McGann writes, \u201cMen (and women) are indeed called to the mastery of things.\u00a0 Of things precisely.\u00a0 Of people and of life events we are and always will be participants and students, never masters. Drawing that distinction between things and people, between mastery and learning\u2014is what it means to be \u2026 a humanist\u201d (McGann 62). Here, Humanists are the subjects, insofar as that what makes Humanists such are their life events, who they are as people.\u00a0 The objects McGann is outlining here are things like electronic scholarship, learning how to speak the technological language that is critical to understanding and therefore mastering these objects.<\/p>\n
The subjects that Humanists study, those regarding people and life events, are subjects that they will never be masters of.\u00a0 Instead, they will forever be participants and students.\u00a0 However, to continue on as Humanists, to continue learning and participating, we must be willing to board the slow-moving, inevitable train that McGann speaks of.\u00a0 We must be willing to finally put into practice ideas and programs that will allow us, Humanists, to keep learning. The necessity for beginning to learn through practice and to discuss the process\u00a0again is imperative to the life-long commitment of mastering subjects. In order to even begin mastering those subjects that McGann is outlining, we have to be willing to master things like electronic scholarship; we have to be willing to become digital humanists.\u00a0 Mastering such objects and continually studying these subjects are indeed key elements to a successful, thriving future for the Humanities and Humanists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In writing \u201cInformation Technology and the Troubled Humanities\u201d, James McGann speaks of a \u201ctrain\u201d, saying, \u201c\u2026whether we choose to or not, we should all be clear about the slow train that\u2019s coming and that won\u2019t be sidetracked\u201d (McGann 63). The \u201cslow train\u201d, the one \u201cthat won\u2019t be sidetracked\u201d, seems to be the call for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}