Tag Archives: Episteme

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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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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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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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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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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The question of the presence in the Digital Humanities


Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Unsere breite Gegenwart, edition suhrkamp, 2010 Review with respect to digital humanities (presumably unexpected for H. U. Gumbrecht; see below) What does it mean for the writing of history, if documents with a simple click are present … Continue reading

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The Book in the Digital Information Age


Michael Giesecke, Von den Mythen der Buchkultur zu den Visionen der Informationsgesellschaft, Frankfurt a.M., 2002 Review for the Digital Humanities What happens to the book in the digital information era? If there is one to know, it is Michael Giesecke, Professor … 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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