The residue of uniqueness

Abstract: "To build an argument for the supervening importance of agenda, the author locates the digital humanities within the context of a central human predicament: the anxiety of identity stemming from the problematic relation of human to non-human, both animal and machine. He identifies modeling as the fundamental activity of the digital humanities and draws a parallel between it and our developing confrontation with the not-us. The author then goes on to argue that the demographics of infrastructure within the digital humanities, therefore in part its emphasis, is historically due to the socially inferior role assigned to those who in the early years found para-academic employment in service to the humanities. He does not specify an agenda, rather conclude that modeling, pursued within its humane context, offers a cornucopia of agenda if only the 'mind-forged manacles' of servitude' s mind-set can be broken." (author's abstract)

Weitere Titel
Was von der Einzigartigkeit bleibt
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
The residue of uniqueness ; volume:37 ; number:3 ; year:2012 ; pages:24-45
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Historical social research ; 37, Heft 3 (2012), 24-45

Urheber
McCarty, Willard

DOI
10.12759/hsr.37.2012.3.24-45
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-378398
Rechteinformation
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  • McCarty, Willard

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