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At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities

Author(s): Drucker, Johanna

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Johanna welcomes governmental regulation on the internet against ‘neoliberal entrepreneurialism,’ rejects new grand narratives ‘reconfigured by the pseudo-authority of computation’ and considers the sociality of contemporary existence an obstacle for ‘interior life,’ innovation, and zoophilia. She compares Digital Humanities with the ‘cook in the kitchen’ and Digital Media Studies with the ‘restaurant critic,’ sees the platform and tool development in the Humanities as a professional, not academic track, she calls for a visual epistemology in times of Screen culture and diagrammatic knowledge production and she explains how to contaminate the world of quantitative and disambiguating underpinnings with the virtues of relativism and multi-perspectivism.

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Drucker, Johanna: At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities. In: Simanowski, Roberto: Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy. London: Open Humanities Press 2016, S. 43-68. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/11912.
@INCOLLECTION{Drucker2016,
 author = {Drucker, Johanna},
 title = {At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities},
 year = 2016,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/11912},
 editor = {Simanowski, Roberto},
 address = {London},
 booktitle = {Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy},
 pages = {43--68},
 publisher = {Open Humanities Press},
}
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