Monthly Archives: April 2012

Jacques Derrida and the Digital Humanities


Jacques Derrida, Die Struktur, das Zeichen und das Spiel im Diskurs der Wissenschaften vom Menschen, in: Die Schrift und die Differenz, Frankfurt a.M. 1976 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) The structure has a history, of course. … Continue reading

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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: The analog virtual Humanist


Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time, Harvard University Press, 1997 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) A key feature of Digital History are hypertexts (to that, see the post on Wolfgang Schmale about … Continue reading

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Manuel Schramm, Digitale Landschaften, Stuttgart 2009


Review with respect to digital humanities Historians have (re)discovered space as one of their issues. This has been manifested in the great response to the topic “borders” at the Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences 2010 in Basel or to the exhibition The … Continue reading

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Open up the Workshop of the Historian!


Pierre Mounier, Die Werkstatt des Historikers öffnen: Soziale Medien und Wissenschaftsblogs, November 4, 2011 Review with respect to digital humanities How digital technologies are changing the work of historians? Data bases, (retro)digitization and analysis of social networks are important milestones. … Continue reading

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Wolfgang Schmale: A Practice in Digital History


Wolfgang Schmale, Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft, Wien, Köln, Weimar, 2010 Review with respect to digital humanities Wolfgang Schmale, University of Vienna, wonders whether “digital media are historically powerful”. It struck him that digitization transforms space and time in “flowing, unbounded categories”. The … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities and Google: Ancient Places


Google has digitized around 15 million books  and supports researchers in their analysis 15 million books – that is around 10 percent of all books that have been published since Gutenberg. How can so much material be handled usefully? Historians … Continue reading

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