Tag Archives: Discourse

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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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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Jean-François Lyotard, Delegitimization and Digital Humanities


Jean-François Lyotard, „Die Delegitimierung“, in : Geschichte schreiben in der Postmoderne, Stuttgart 1994 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) In the post-industrial society, in postmodern culture, knowledge becomes legitimized in a new way. Great, speculative and emancipating narratives … Continue reading

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Foucault revisited for the Digital Humanities


Michel Foucault, L’archéologie du savoir, Gallimard, 1969 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) Also historians have succumbed to the temptations of structuralism. For quite some time now, they have not been working with events anymore, but with … Continue reading

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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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