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#digital
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Sampling and quantization: from analog to digital
Analog signals are known as “continuous” and digital signals are called “discrete.” This distinction simply means that analog signals vary continuously in time, while discrete signals are chopped up into separate units at each time point—which is otherwise known as the sample…
Digital Hhermeneutics
Digital ontology
Digital hermeneutics is based on digital ontology, a concept that Michael Eldred (2001) and the author developed some years ago (Capurro 2001). What is digital ontology? Eldred writes: As long as we remain 'embedded' unquestioningly in the digital casting, everything is…
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
This is not Luddism?
The best thing that the humanities could do at this moment, then, is not to embrace the momentum of the digital, the tech tsunami, but to resist it and to critique it. This is not Luddism