Class 9 Notes


Preliminary Class Business

 

 

(cf. RoSE grant proposal)

 

 

  

Readings for This Class

 

 

 

Visual Epigraph

José Manuel Ballester, image series

 

  

1. Intro to Class

 

  • Focal Question for class 1 What kind of "human" subject do the digital humanities speak from, to, for?
  • Focal Question for today's class How do the digital humanities contribute to the humanities vision of interpretive and sociocultural "difference"?

 

    The Deformance Thesis:
              * Make it new        * Deconstruction (differénce)    * Oulipo

    The Transform Thesis:
              * Cultural studies/criticism        * Social justice criticism 

 

Rosa Menkman, The Glitch Moment(um)

 

Tara McPherson, "Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation"

 

 

 

  

2. The "Deform" Thesis

 

 

 

 

  

3. The "Transform" Thesis

 

-    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -     -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -     -    -    - 

 

 

  

4. Student Practicums

 

 

 

  

5. Heading

 

  • Etc.

 

 

  

6. Heading

 

  • Etc.