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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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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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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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