well, we read that one and Extralibrary Loan. it worked well.
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well, we read that one and Extralibrary Loan. it worked well.
They liked Star well enough. We're onto Alain Liu's work on diversity stack (which may or may not have been a good idea to assign) and @shannonmattern.bsky.social's "Library as Infrastructure"
Teaching Infrastructure in the Grad DH Class today via Susan Leigh Star and the Lab Infrastructure ch of @loriemerson.net, Parikka, and Wershler's Lab Book. One student: "Sorry Roger, but infrastructure is a bit of a slog." Me: "Yup, that's the point."
Looks essential.
I feel like @samplereality.bsky.social needs to have a book or something titled "Cool Stuff I've Done That You Can Do Too." He's often the first person I go to when I'm looking for syllabi, exercises, code, etc.
DH-ers: does anyone know an easy classroom exercise that enacts deformance? I'm having grad students read "Editing as a Theoretical Persuit" and would love something hands-on that doesn't require a lot beyond their computers.
the metaphysics of presence is a helluva drug...
I'm teaching Lisa Nakamura's article "Indigineous Circuits" tomorrow in the DH class. Every time I read this piece, I'm reminded that it is such a tour de force of archival scholarship. It's just brilliant.
This is me.
rock on!
Zielinski: I just love how much the writing insists on the anecdote, on the specific. Every time I try to fit him into a theoretical mode or a genre, he escapes my abstractions.
I'm teaching the first chapter of Zielinski's Deep Time of the Media, on Kircher and bioluminescence. His writing casts a strange spell on me and makes history seem like it dissolves and reforms and dissolves again. I can't think of another writer who does this to me in their writing.
shit, man. I haven't even played Alan Wake 2 yet, because I can only get it on my PS and not on my Steamdeck. Alas.
I really love reading Siegfried Zielinski. Something about his writing style is like comfort food to me.
Yeah, Nintendo. I'm not buying the Virtual Boy again.
www.ign.com/articles/vir...
oh, wow, you should have asked me. I had a Richard Marx: Repeat Offender folder in 6th grade which, um, that's not a great combination of things? Omg, now I have "Children of the Night" as an earworm....
So, instead of Data, we built Lore.
E-Lit people! I'm teaching Walter Benjamin today in my DH class. I see that there are a few (alas old and not that interesting) hypertext versions of The Arcades Project. Do y'all know of a better version? It's odd to me that no one has a really flashy hypertext adaptation of this seminal work.
I'm rereading CODE to teach it in my DH class. Themes emerging for me now: refugee intellectuals, structuralism as technocratic response to fascism/Soviet communism, the role of immigrants as experimental subjects. Not sure how much of cybernetics is cold war nationalism, nor how ai fits in.
"If I remained timeless time..."
i'm teaching @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social's "What's DH & What's It Doing in English Departments" tomorrow w/ Gold and Klein's "The Digital Humanities: Moment to Moment" and the Brown U Hypertext experiment from 1976. If there's a history of DH told through these texts, how would you characterize it?
and yet: “A letter always arrives at its destination since its destination is wherever it arrives.”
She ended up in the citation, thank you Lyell...
srlsy Charlie? support women!
Darwin to Lyell, 25 Mar 1865 "I presume I may quote Miss Buckley about the roosting in trees (which is only new point) as “from information received through Sir C. Lyell”. If you think I ought to name Miss. B; please tell me, otherwise I will quote as above."
+1. Take care Bluesky. <3
Another Q for my DH audience: is there a good piece about why you wouldn't want to use Canvas? I know the reasons, I just need a few citations. Thanks!
[insert general greeting and good tidings in a moment when other wishes (doing well, getting along) seem impossible]
Thanks Andy!