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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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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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