When I arrived in Canada in 2004, I was blown away by the mere existence of Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe. Here were two politicians who spoke the truth, had roots in labor and consistently and unambiguously promoted left values. Layton was of course frequently red-baited by both the liberals and press (a fact conveniently …
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For our last lunch in LA, we go find the Korean Taco Truck. It’s delicious and not the kind of thing you’d find anywhere else. While we’re eating the Quizno’s across the street calls the police, who come and chase them away. Then some enraged lady accosts us ranting about how “we have rights as …
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Thursday’s talk at the NEH/Vectors institute by Alex Juhasz raised some interesting questions for me about online argument. Humanistic thought has, for hundreds of years, operated in relatively linear and long-form arguments. Even those works that challenge linearity (I am thinking here of the standard stable of poststructuralist critiques) exists with reference to it, and …
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There’s a lot of talk in Digital Humanities about “born digital” content. But what we are really talking about at this point is different kinds of digital, and the politics of competing standards. My project for this institute is to create a digital companion for my mp3 book. The purpose of the site is to …
Background: 0.1. Existing digital humanities work has largely reproduced visualist biases in the humanities: work with images and audiovisual texts has been thus far assumed to be more primary than work with sound as a text. And yet, sound is one of the major areas where huge gains could be made in digital publication. As …
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okay, surprise, we’re back. I’m here in Los Angeles for the NEH/Vectors Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (and there’s something in the title about American Studies, but I’m here on Mellon money and don’t really count as an American Studies person as far as I can tell, so please forgive me that …
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It’s that time of year again. I’m nearing time to move to LA, backed up with work and flush with social engagements. Maybe I’ll get inspired in LA, but if not, I’ll see you in late August.
