The Humanities Reloaded

Author : Keyan G. Tomaselli,Pier Paolo Frassinelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000847796

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The Humanities Reloaded by Keyan G. Tomaselli,Pier Paolo Frassinelli Pdf

This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence and consolidation of the metrics-driven, corporate, managerial university. Do narratives of the crisis of the humanities mobilize specific notions of value and prestige? How are these notions classed, gendered and racialized? How do narratives of the crisis of the humanities relate to current debates and contestations surrounding decolonization? Does the crisis of a traditional configuration of the humanities open up opportunities to use their institutional space for work that is both socially and politically relevant and academically rigorous? The aim is to provide a counter-narrative of the present and future of the humanities. In addition to the study of a multiplicity of media texts and other multimodal expressive forms, formats and platforms and genres, a communicative turn in the humanities entails deepening the study of the value chains in which they are inserted and their conditions of production, circulation and reception. Communicative and digital capitalism, now labelled the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is on its way to bringing its own waves of struggles and confrontations to our campuses and beyond, to which humanities scholars and activists can make a vital contribution—should some of us decide to do so. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of art, literature, media and cultural studies, education, politics, sociology, and social and cultural anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Author : Rens Bod
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191642944

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A New History of the Humanities by Rens Bod Pdf

Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. There are already historical studies of musicology, logic, art history, linguistics, and historiography, but this volume gathers these, and many other humanities disciplines, into a single coherent account. Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilizations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music, languages, literature, and the past. What rules can we apply if we wish to determine whether a tale about the past is trustworthy? By what criteria are we to distinguish consonant from dissonant musical intervals? What rules jointly describe all possible grammatical sentences in a language? How can modern digital methods enhance pattern-seeking in the humanities? Rens Bod contends that the hallowed opposition between the sciences (mathematical, experimental, dominated by universal laws) and the humanities (allegedly concerned with unique events and hermeneutic methods) is a mistake born of a myopic failure to appreciate the pattern-seeking that lies at the heart of this inquiry. A New History of the Humanities amounts to a persuasive plea to give Panini, Valla, Bopp, and countless other often overlooked intellectual giants their rightful place next to the likes of Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.

Author : Aaron Mauro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781350230996

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Hacking in the Humanities by Aaron Mauro Pdf

What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital humanities to bring a human - and humanistic - perspective to the issue of cybersecurity. It argues that through these stories we are able to predict the future political, cultural, and social realities emerging from technological change. Making the case for a security-minded humanities education, this book examines pressing issues of data security, privacy, social engineering and more, illustrating how the humanities offer the critical, technical, and ethical insights needed to oppose the normalization of surveillance, disinformation, and coercion. Within this counter-cultural approach to technology, this book offers a model of activism to intervene and meaningfully resist government and corporate oversight online. In doing so, it argues for a wider notion of literacy, which includes the ability to write and fight the computer code that shapes our lives.

Author : Aaron Pinnix,Axel Volmar,Fernando Esposito,Nora Binder
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839469835

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Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities by Aaron Pinnix,Axel Volmar,Fernando Esposito,Nora Binder Pdf

Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of quotidian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.

Author : Nachum Dershowitz,Ephraim Nissan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642453243

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Language, Culture, Computation: Computing for the Humanities, Law, and Narratives by Nachum Dershowitz,Ephraim Nissan Pdf

This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age. This second part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics related to the application of information technology in humanities, law, and narratives. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: humanities computing; narratives and their formal representation; history of ideas: the numerate disciplines; law, computer law, and legal computing.

Author : Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118680643

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A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth Pdf

This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities

Author : Sverre Raffnsøe
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 3031465326

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A History of the Humanities in the Modern University by Sverre Raffnsøe Pdf

This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline. Rather than hearkening to the widespread, reactive call for a last-ditch defense of the humanities under attack from an ungracious world, this book fundamentally reverses the perspective and makes a plea for a different, affirmative approach. It contends that the humanities have incessantly arrived at critical turning points since they were first constituted in a form that remains recognizable today and assumed a leading role in knowledge organization with the establishment of the modern university around 1800. Assuming a historical perspective, the monograph takes the human sciences back to their rightful place in the family tree of sciences and gives due recognition to their continuously decisive role in the production of new knowledge and the creation of new fields of knowledge. Situating the ongoing gemmation of the humanities in a broader context, this monograph also offers an encompassing introduction to the over-all development of knowledge in the last two hundred years.

Author : Carlo Tognato
Publisher : Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art and state
ISBN : 0674088557

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Cultural Agents Reloaded by Carlo Tognato Pdf

Cultural Agents Reloaded reflects on the accomplishments and failures of Antanas Mockus, twice Mayor of Bogotá. His example motivates us to sharpen our understanding of what cultural agency is in the present day by bringing into focus the challenges public humanities face when they travel South and struggle to become genuinely global.

Author : Andreas Ludwig
Publisher : Wallstein Verlag
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783835347465

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Neue Städte by Andreas Ludwig Pdf

Neue Städte: Materialisierungen ihrer Zeit an einem konkreten Ort. Neue Städte sind Ausdruck einer Utopie: Mit ihnen sollte die Wohnungsnot im kriegszerstörten Europa gelöst, Wohnraum für groß angelegte Industrialisierungsprojekte und die Verwirklichung einer modernen Lebensweise ermöglicht werden. Zugleich stellten sie Repräsentation von Herrschaft und Raumkontrolle dar. Neue Städte altern jedoch schneller als andere Städte. Grund sind Strukturwandel und soziale Veränderungen. Es erfolgten Abrisse, aber auch denkmalpflegerische Rekonstruktion und der Aufbau Neuer Städte an anderen Orten. Die Beiträge des Buches beschreiben den Wandel der Neuen Stadt seit 1945 und verfolgen ihre Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart - mit Beispielen aus Frankreich, Großbritannien, Albanien, Polen, Ungarn, Israel und China. Dabei geht es auch um die urbane und historische Authentizität der Neuen Stadt und den jeweiligen Umgang mit der eigenen Geschichte.

Author : Eduardo Antonio Navas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art and music
ISBN : UCSD:31822009474354

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Remix by Eduardo Antonio Navas Pdf

Author : Prof Dr Johannes Müller,Prof Dr Cheryl Makarewicz,Prof Dr Lutz Käppel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9088909695

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Distant Times So Close by Prof Dr Johannes Müller,Prof Dr Cheryl Makarewicz,Prof Dr Lutz Käppel Pdf

Archaeology provides a crucial contribution to an understanding of crises. This booklet presents examples of pandemics from the perspective of prehistoric and ancient societies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Information services
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017462750

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Database by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry M. Sayre
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0130862614

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The Humanities Volume II by Henry M. Sayre Pdf

For two semester/quarter courses on Introduction to the Humanities or Cultural Studies. The Humanities by Henry M. Sayre helps students see context and make connections across the humanities by tying together the entire cultural experience through a narrative storytelling approach. Henry Sayre took the introduction to the humanities course as a sophomore and was inspired to devote his life to the study of the humanities. He has always wanted to write a book that passes along the important and compelling stories of the humanities. Henry believes that students learn best by remembering stories, not by memorizing facts. What makes The Humanities special is that it tells the stories and captures the voices that have shaped and influenced human thinking and creativity. Please visit www.prenhall.com/thehumanities for more information and to view a video from author Henry Sayre, take a tour of a chapter from the book and see a demo of the Prentice Hall Digital Arts Library.

Author : Christian Moraru
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472052790

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Reading for the Planet by Christian Moraru Pdf

A critical methodology for dealing with planetarism's aesthetic and philosophical projections

Author : Andreas Fickers,Annie Oever
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110799798

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Doing Experimental Media Archaeology by Andreas Fickers,Annie Oever Pdf

This book offers a plea to take the materiality of media technologies and the sensorial and tacit dimensions of media use into account in the writing of the histories of media and technology. In short, it is a bold attempt to question media history from the perspective of an experimental media archaeology approach. It offers a systematic reflection on the value and function of hands-on experimentation in research and teaching. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.