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Jacques Derrida and the Digital Humanities

Jacques Derrida, Die Struktur, das Zeichen und das Spiel im Diskurs der Wissenschaften vom Menschen, in: Die Schrift und die Differenz, Frankfurt a.M. 1976 Review with respect to digital humanities...

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Foucault revisited for the Digital Humanities

Michel Foucault, L’archéologie du savoir, Gallimard, 1969 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) Also historians have succumbed to the temptations of structuralism. For quite some...

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Jean-François Lyotard, Delegitimization and Digital Humanities

Jean-François Lyotard, „Die Delegitimierung“, in : Geschichte schreiben in der Postmoderne, Stuttgart 1994 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) In the post-industrial society, in...

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Digital_Humanities: THE Book!

Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital_Humanites, Cambridge 2012 A short cut and some remarks “Two decades ago, working with digital documents was the...

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Hybridity, a cultural and scientific model for the future

Yvonne Spielmann, Hybridkultur, Berlin 2010 A brief summary and a few theories for the Digital Humanities Hybrid culture correlates and fuses elements from different media, cultural contexts and...

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Do We still need History? And if so: Why?

Reinhart Koselleck, Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Geschichte, Berlin 2010 A short cut and a remark for the Digital Humanities  The historical sciences since quite a long time have been in crisis, Reinhart...

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The economics of writing (and publishing)

Michel de Certeau, Kunst des Handelns, Berlin 1988 Review for the Digital Humanities The art of acting, L’Invention du quotidien – Arts de faire, respectively, as the book is originally called, has...

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The Thinking follows the Data

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine of 12th March 2014, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht writes that the humanities are helpless towards the digital revolution. That we must invent new terms to get along with it. That...

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Forget it !? Memory and the formation of historical meaning in the “broad...

Summary of my Intervention at the Colloquium of the University of Lucerne, Zeit-Geschichte-Unterricht, 7. November 2014 Link to the original german manuscript http://bit.ly/1svdpMg The intervention...

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Pamphlet No 6 – Between Close and Distant reading

Franco Moretti explains the "Operationalizing" of Distant reading in an interesting pamphlet from the Stanford Literary Lab (see below). Operationalization is a process that transforms a concept into a...

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Any room left for freedom in a programmed world? – Vilém Flusser and the...

Now, if one accepts the basic thesis that the world is experienced, recognized and evaluated in the network of codes, […]. Flusser thinks history as a sequence of codes of an alphabetical order. This...

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Pamphlet No 6 – Between Distant and Close reading

Franco Moretti explains the “Operationalizing” of Distant reading in an interesting pamphlet from the Stanford Literary Lab (see below). Operationalization is a process that transforms a concept into a...

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The Future of Yesterday: Scientific publishing after the Digital Revolution

In his new Essay, Valentin Groebner, Professor for Medieval history, asks about the possibilities of digital media and the historical perspective that could teach us about their chances and risks. In...

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Digital Humanities – Limits and Possibilities: A New Journal in Germany

The new German Journal for Digital Humanities of the Forschungsverbund Marbach, Weimar and Wolfenbüttel, supported of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung in its first volume discusses...

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Hybridity and Historiography – A Tricky Couple!

Things have power to act, Bruno Latour says. This French author alternates between natural science, social science and philosophy. For him, who founded the influential actor-network-theory (ANT),...

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Oral History of the Digital Humanities and the Work of Roberto Busa

What are the Digital Humanities (DH)? This question of a quite long standing debate is treated in a new open access book in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing: Computation and the Humanities,...

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Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

A joint research venture between the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and the Center for...

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