Between Humanities and the Digital

Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology as both a scholarly tool and a cultural object in need of analysis. The contributors explore the state of the art in digital humanities from varied disciplinary perspectives, offer a sample of digitally inflected work that ranges from an analysis of computational literature to the collaborative development of a "Global Middle Ages" humanities platform, and examine new models for knowledge production and infrastructure. Their contributions show not only that the digital has prompted the humanities to move beyond traditional scholarly horizons, but also that the humanities have pushed the digital to become more than a narrowly technical application. Contributors Ian Bogost, Anne Cong-Huyen, Mats Dahlstr m, Cathy N. Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Amy E. Earhart, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Maurizio Forte, Zephyr Frank, David Theo Goldberg, Jennifer Gonzalez, Jo Guldi, N. Katherine Hayles, Geraldine Heng, Larissa Hjorth, Tim Hutchings, Henry Jenkins, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Cecilia Lindhe, Alan Liu, Elizabeth Losh, Tara McPherson, Chandra Mukerji, Nick Montfort, Jenna Ng, Bethany Nowviskie, Jennie Olofsson, Lisa Parks, Natalie Phillips, Todd Presner, Stephen Rachman, Patricia Seed, Nishant Shah, Ray Siemens, Jentery Sayers, Jonathan Sterne, Patrik Svensson, William G. Thomas III, Whitney Anne Trettien, Michael Widner

Table of Contents:
Contributors ix  Acknowledgments xiii  Introduction 1  I THE FIELD OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 9  1 The Example: Some Historical Considerations 17  Jonathan Sterne  2 Humanities in the Digital Age 35  Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III  3 Me? A Digital Humanist? 41  Chandra Mukerji  4 Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities 55  Todd Presner  5 “ Does This Technology Serve Human Purposes? ” A “ Necessary Conversation ” with Sherry Turkle 69  Henry Jenkins  6 Humanist Computing at the End of the Individual Voice and the Authoritative Text 83  Johanna Drucker 7 Beyond Infrastructure: Re-humanizing Digital Humanities in India 95  Nishant Shah  8 Toward a Transnational Asian/American Digital Humanities: A #transformDH Invitation 109  Anne Cong-Huyen  9 Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground 121  Ian Bogost  10 Why Yack Needs Hack (and Vice versa): From Digital Humanities to Digital Literacy 131  Cathy N. Davidson  11 Toward Problem-Based Modeling in the Digital Humanities 145  Ray Siemens and Jentery Sayers  12 Deprovincializing Digital Humanities 163  David Theo Goldberg  II INFLECTING FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES 173  13 Circuit-Bending History: Sketches toward a Digital Schematic 181  Whitney Anne Trettien  14 Medieval Materiality through the Digital Lens 193  Cecilia Lindh é  15 Computational Literature 205  Nick Montfort  16 The Cut between Us: Digital Remix and the Expression of Self 217  Jenna Ng  17 Locating the Mobile and Social: A Preliminary Discussion of Camera Phones and Locative Media 229  Larissa Hjorth 18 “ Did You Mean ‘ Why Are Women Cranky? ’ ” Google — A Means of Inscription, a Means of De-Inscription? 243  Jennie Olofsson  19 Time Wars of the Twentieth Century and the Twenty-first Century Toolkit: The History and Politics of Longue-duree Thinking as a Prelude to the Digital Analysis of the Past 253  Jo Guldi  20 An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities: Envisioning Globalities 500 – 1500 CE 267  Geraldine Heng and Michael Widner  21 Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion 283  Tim Hutchings  22 Cyber Archaeology: A Post-virtual Perspective 295  Maurizio Forte  23 Literature, Neuroscience, and Digital Humanities 311  Natalie Phillips and Stephen Rachman  III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, LEARNING, AND INFRASTRUCTURE 329  24 The Humanistiscope — Exploring the Situatedness of Humanities Infrastructure 337  Patrik Svensson  25 “ Stuff You Can Kick ” : Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures 355  Lisa Parks  26 Distant Mirrors and the LAMP 375  Matthew Kirschenbaum  27 Resistance in the Materials 383  Bethany Nowviskie 28 The Digital Humanities as a Laboratory 391  Amy E. Earhart  29 A Map Is Not a Picture: How the Digital World Threatens the Validity of Printed Maps 401  Patricia Seed  30 Spatial History as Scholarly Practice 411  Zephyr Frank  31 Utopian Pedagogies: Teaching from the Margins of the Digital Humanities 429  Elizabeth Losh  32 The Face and the Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice 441  Jennifer Gonz á lez  33 Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age 457  Kathleen Fitzpatrick  34 Critical Transmission 467  Mats Dahlstr ö m  35 Post-Archive: The Humanities, the Archive, and the Database 483  Tara McPherson  36 Final Commentary: A Provocation 503  N. Katherine Hayles  References 507  Index 565

About the Author :
Patrik Svensson is Professor of Digital Humanities and former Director of HUMlab (2000-2014) at Ume University, Sweden. David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine.