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 …
Tag: philosophy
The FCC, Net Neutrality, and You
A few weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it will propose new rules that effectively allow Internet service providers (ISP) to charge more money to certain companies in …
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.
What’s in it for me?
Just over a year ago, I set out to create a wiki for philosophers – an online, collaborative resource that would help graduate teaching fellows and adjuncts create lesson plans …
A Fresh Perspective
My entry into the Digital Fellows program has reshaped not only my perspective on the use of technology in graduate education, but my perspective on how the skills I brought …
Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants: eTLP
eTLP: Digitizing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Kyle Ferguson, Philosophy Ludwig Wittgenstein s (1889-1951) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is arguably the most important text of twentieth-century philosophy. It shook analytic philosophy to its foundations when published in …
Digital Fellow: Laura Kane
Laura Wildemann Kane is a third year doctoral student in Philosophy and a Digital Initiatives Fellow at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests …