Author Archives: Guido Koller

The economics of writing (and publishing)


Michel de Certeau, Kunst des Handelns, Berlin 1988 Review for the Digital Humanities The art of acting, L’Invention du quotidien – Arts de faire, respectively, as the book is originally called, has long been an insider tip. Its author, a … Continue reading

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Do We still need History? And if so: Why?


Reinhart Koselleck, Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Geschichte, Berlin 2010 A short cut and a remark for the Digital Humanities The historical sciences since quite a long time have been in crisis, Reinhart Koselleck, the famous German historian, writes in … Continue reading

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“Sowohl-als-Auch”: Hybridity, a cultural and scientific model for the future


Yvonne Spielmann, Hybridkultur, Berlin 2010 A brief summary and a few theories for the Digital Humanities Hybrid culture correlates and fuses elements from different media, cultural contexts and discourses. The decisive factor here: Networks change the direction and speed of … Continue reading

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How do we get rid of History?


Niklas Luhmann, „Weltzeit und Systemgeschichte, Über Beziehungen zwischen Zeithorizonten und Strukturen gesellschaftlicher Systeme“, in: Soziologische Aufklärung 2. Aufsätze zur Theorie der Gesellschaft, Opladen 1975 Review and Update for the Digital Humanities In a global world of information the presence expands … Continue reading

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Digital_Humanities: THE Book!


Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital_Humanites, Cambridge 2012 A short cut and some remarks “Two decades ago, working with digital documents was the exception. Today it is the norm” – Anne Burdick and her … Continue reading

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Silent Revolution: The Algorithms and Hyper-modern Knowledge


Mercedes Bunz, Die stille Revolution, Wie Algorithmen Wissen, Arbeit, Öffentlichkeit und Politik verändern, ohne dabei viel Lärm zu machen, Berlin 2012 A short cut and some remarks Mercedes Bunz, former chief editor of Tagesspiegel online, believes that the digital revolution … Continue reading

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Trust in Numbers


Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers, The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Princeton 1995 Review for the Digital Humanities Preliminary remark: Numbers are an important element in the Digital Humanities. The Frankfurter Allgemeine even writes, in connection … Continue reading

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Digital History. Ready made.


Peter Haber, Digital Past, Geschichtswissenschaft im Digitalen Zeitalter, München 2011 Review “What happens to the science of history in the digital age”, Peter Haber, University of Basel, wants to know. His concern is primarily about three things: The origins of … Continue reading

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Statistics: The Politics of large Numbers


Alain Desrosières, La Politique des Grands Nombres, Histoire de la raison statistique, Paris 1993, 2000 Review with respect to the Digital Humanities Numbers and statistics are an extremely important element in the Digital Humanities. The Frankfurter Allgemeine writes, after the Digital Humanities … Continue reading

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Twitter in the Humanities


Microblogging more and more is an issue in the Humanities, too. ScienceFeed on ResearchGate, for instance, has especially been developped for the exchange of information in research and science. But better known is Twitter. Mareike König from the DHI in Paris has published an interesting and … Continue reading

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Empirical turn in the Humanities? The Frankfurter Allgemeine on the results of the Hamburg conference


Digital tools and methods become more and more important in the Humanities. The Frankfurter Allgemeine, a leading journal in Germany, sees ”the end of the hermeneutical individual research” coming. The computer based processing of huge data bases allows researchers totaly new … Continue reading

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Rousseau Digital – The Philosophers Work accessible online


2012 is the year of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. infoclio.ch took this occassion to publish the work of the famous philosopher in its first reference edition in 17 volumes and nearly 9,000 pages. The texts are freely available on rousseauonline.ch for download in various formats (pdf, epub). They include … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities: Short Outline of a Theory of Practice


Pierre Bourdieu, Entwurf einer Theorie der Praxis. Auf der ethnologischen Grundlage der kabylischen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1976 (French original 1972) Review with respect to Digital Humanities Preliminary remarks: I have tried in previous posts, to outline the framework and … Continue reading

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La place dans les Humanités Digitales – Commentaire


Le billet “The place in the Digital Humanities” du 8 Juin 2012 (revue du livre Non-lieux de Marc Augé) me semble intéressant et je vous donnerai mon opinion, non pas exclusivement depuis la perspective des communautés des humanités numériques et … Continue reading

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The place in the Digital Humanities


Marc Augé, Non-Lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité, Paris 1992 Review with respect to the Digital Humanities We have become strangers in our own world – due to its accelerated change. This calls for the anthropological perspective, for … Continue reading

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