Between Humanities and the Digital

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