{"id":840,"date":"2016-11-07T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=840"},"modified":"2016-11-07T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:43:21","slug":"117-golumbia-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/117-golumbia-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/7 Golumbia Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u201cDeath of a Dispciple\u201d, David Golumbia notes that among conversations relating to Digital Humanities, the question of \u201cWhat is it?\u201d is often heard, suggesting that many people still do not understand what it is, what it does, nor how it relates to literary studies, despite the 10 plus years since its development. \u00a0This, once again, brings up the issue regarding a lack of definition on behalf of DH. Aiding in this, Golumbia posits, is that the word digital <\/em>as used in DH is a catachresis because it doesn’t mean the same thing as it does in “ordinary discourse”. \u00a0Later on, he continues, saying,\u201cWe should reflect on the fact that of the tools and methods DH trumpets so prominently, few are part of the digital toolkit of most literary scholars today…Much of DH\u2019s influence comes not from such tools and projects, but from books, articles, blog posts, and position statements, all of which look much more like \u201ctraditional\u201d scholarship than the rhetoric would suggest and whose relationship to other ongoing conversations in literary studies is often difficult to see\u201d (172).<\/p>\n

In light of this, Golumbia reasserts his claim that the adjective digital\u00a0<\/em>in Digital Humanities, is a catachresis, and, as such, is inappropriately used in its name and should therefore be replaced with something that better reflects what DH is, does, and how it contributes to literary studies. He also suggests that if this is not attainable, or perhaps desirable, that DH should instead openly proclaim its rejection to the practices of literary studies and further distance itself from it.\u00a0Given Golumbia\u2019s critique, I\u2019d like us to consider a few things. Specifically, how does DH seemingly use the word digital? Does\u00a0the catachresis of the word digital, as used in the\u00a0title of DH, in fact seem to be an inappropriate use, and if so, why? What appears to be\u00a0inherently digital <\/em>about the Digital Humanities, if, as Golumbia suggests, much of DH\u2019s influence within literary studies comes from scholarship resembling its more \u201ctraditional\u201d form? What, for you, seems to be the distinction between traditional scholarship and the scholarship of the Digital Humanities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u201cDeath of a Dispciple\u201d, David Golumbia notes that among conversations relating to Digital Humanities, the question of \u201cWhat is it?\u201d is often heard, suggesting that many people still do not understand what it is, what it does, nor how it relates to literary studies, despite the 10 plus years since its development. \u00a0This, once […]<\/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-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}