Throughout my tenure as a Digital Fellow, I have struggled to relate the projects I’ve been working on and the tools and skills I have been learning to my philosophical pursuits. This …
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DH Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital Humanities
The first in a series of posts in which I set out to provide a short review of several different aspects of the digital humanities from a non-digital humanist perspective, with the mindset or culture of DH being just the beginning.
All That is Digital Melts into Code
The world of DH is one in which lofty dreams and visions of the digital transforming the social are frequently confronted by the challenges of coding, the limitations of the real, and the contradictions--perhaps fallacies--of modernity and modernization. This analogy lends caution to DH undertakings ignorant of the realities of implementation. But this also means that all that is within the world of DH is easily collapsed onto the realm of "coding". Meaning that despite the realities of coding and implementation of DH projects, there is an assumed teleological link between project and coding. Without going into counterexamples of where this link breaks down, allow me to instead provide a brief clarification of the concept of 'coding' that I think underlies some of this confusion.
