... history. Finishing on the promising example of a recent collection of essays on the digital humanities, the chapter concludes by asking the critical question: what is an imaginatively enriching, rather than deterministic constraining, narrative of new media encounter? civilization colonization contact...

... Williams William Carlos histogram definition of death hypernyms pronouns WordNet distinctive words Morgan Edwin negation Jackson Angela repetition corporality beauty Whitman Walt vector space models McClane Kenneth Georges Bataille digital humanities cultural anaytics natural language...

... WordNet Eichendorff Joseph von Noël Marie Robinson Mary Schiller Friedrich Williams William Carlos digital humanities cultural analytics natural language processing late style poetry literary careers corpus linguistics Walt Whitman Wanda Coleman Goethe “To be in any form, what...

... values we care about in systems of scholarly communication? visuality Eliot George digital humanities cultural analytics natural language processing late style poetry literary careers corpus linguistics Walt Whitman Wanda Coleman Goethe “Up till now a few things still had to be set by hand...

...To understand knowledge work from the perspective of the humanities, this chapter reviews three explanations of the concept that arose independently and largely in ignorance of each other: subject work, New Class work, and teamwork. The first two are academic approaches characteristic...

... time to offer up the anthropology of cool in order to start upon the book's concluding topic. That topic is the cultural education of the cool and, correlatively, the future of the humanities and arts in the information age. Borgmann Albert cultural criticism decentralization fantasy gender issues...

...The humanities stand to gain “cool” from the arts, while the arts might gain in return from the humanities a historical rationale for the new aesthetics (including “viral aesthetics”) currently struggling to emerge from the suffocating post-industrial credo of ceaseless, heedless creativity...

...An active interest in the humanities was the culmination of and reward for successful nation-building. The goal toward which the entire nation strove, therefore, was a state of tranquility in which immediate needs had been met, internal opposition calmed, and external threats held at bay—a society...

... also engaging with recent debates about interdisciplinary research and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. In addition to sketching some of the problems and mistakes encountered in borrowing, it argues for the possibility of the fruitful use of chaotic dynamics in work outside...

... portraits” for their project have featured prominently in Thinking with Sound, and their recordings reflect the great wealth of new disciplines in the sciences and humanities that the book has investigated. The chapter closes by drawing attention to the many commonalities between disciplinary constellations...

...Chapter four follows mathematicians who insisted that their work belonged among both the sciences and the humanities. Mathematical activity, they argued, was akin to art. This chapter offers a three-part analysis of the mathematical discourse of the time. First, Steingart suggests...

...Chapter 8 focuses on the skill of systemizing employed by early modern students to design a set of notebooks that operated collectively as a paper machine. It concentrates on student notebooks kept in courses given in the humanities, medicine, law, and divinity faculties of Scotland’s universities...

... of the Shrew and Gloucester’s journey to Dover in King Lear to Jerzy Grotowski’s “poor theater,” this epilogue suggests that trust is a social good to be cultivated and practiced in humanities classrooms. joint stool Sly Christopher Comedy of Errors The dance dramaturgy fight calls Lopes Beth cooking...

...This chapter discusses the differences between digital humanities and speculative computing. It explains that the early character of digital humanities was formed by concessions to the exigencies of computational disciplines and humanists played by the rules of computer science and its formal logic...

... in materialism to the scientific and philosophical accounts of matter promoted by Thomas Huxley, Henry Maudsley, and others. The epilogue briefly survey’s the book’s argument that aesthetic discourse provided nineteenth-century writers with a platform for exploring materialist accounts of human experience...

... character development contribution to society creative understanding critical thinking Democratic Education Gutmann Ebels Duggan Kyla economics of higher education Gutmann Amy humanities the liberal arts education opportunity purposes of higher education skill development value of higher...

... proairetics Moses the Black Plato digital humanities memory social media The previous chapter described data visualization as a digital analogue of the ancient canon of memoria. It focused, more specifically, on the fourth canon’s precept regarding memory’s relationship with creative invention and how...

...If a primary aim of the humanities is to proffer an education in judgment, then the first task of its philosophy is to investigate critically exemplary instances of judgment in order to delineate with perspicuity its activities and operations. If our powers of judgment can be strengthened, deepened...

... fabric, certainly, but one that Rodowick argues is worth pursuing, caring for, and preserving. This original work thinks with and beyond Arendt about the importance of the humanities and what “the humanities” amounts to beyond the walls of the university....

...The Introduction defines geohistorical poetics as a method of reading based on two suppositions. First, poems formalize the process of making (poiesis), of human labor as a transformative redirection of planetary energy. Second, in their generic commitments, allusive density, and reception history...