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Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Un romanzo travestito da saggio
Apre il libro di Daniel Deserti, si mette a leggere. Le sensazioni che le comunicano le prime pagine sono le stesse di quando si era affacciata nell’abitacolo della vecchia Jaguar e l’aveva guardato negli occhi: attrazione, apprensione, desiderio di saperne di più. È un romanzo…
Look Down Go Down
Role of computing in literary hermeneutics
In his very short short-story, ‚Popular Mechanics‛, collected in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1996/1981), Raymond Carver describes the final moments of a man leaving his wife. He tries to take a framed picture of their baby from the bedroom, but she snatches it…
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History Of Digital Humanities - Los Angeles Review Of Books
Dh is about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing
What Digital Humanities is not about, despite its explicit claims, is the use of digital or quantitative methodologies to answer research questions in the humanities. It is, instead, about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Japanese culture
Nishida implies that the proper relation between cultures is parallel to that between “I and Thou.” In simpler language: “A true world culture will be formed only by various cultures preserving their own respective viewpoints, but simultaneously developing themselves through…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Confirmational reading
The use of scientific literature and databases is rapidly shifting from ‘exploratory’ reading to ‘confirmational reading’ to check elements of the hypotheses that massive data analyses throw at us. This requires a very different role for scholarly communication and this is not…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Two paradigm shifts for reading this book
Before we begin work on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I would like to suggest two paradigm shifts that will greatly increase the value you will receive from this material.
A book as companion for continual growth
First, I would recommend that you not “see” this material as a book, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf. You may choose to read it completely through once for a sense of the whole. But the material is designed to be a companion in the continual…
Read as if you had to teach it
Second, I would suggest that you shift your paradigm of your own involvement in this material from the role of learner to that of teacher. Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Looking for a second opinion on self-experiment
I’ve got to get a handle on this, I thought. I’ve got to find some other, firsthand accounts of ongoing self-experiment with LSD. I can’t be the only person who has done this. There must be others; surely someone has left a written record? Dr. Grof, I thought, I want a second…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
To trade smth for smth else
My curiosity ignited, I grabbed my Kindle and purchased the book. One minute later, it had finished downloading. For the rest of the day, I traded book writing for reading.
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
Moretti's distant reading
The New Critics gave us close reading, the engagement with the minute verbal nuances of a text, and the mode still thrives—Helen Vendler’s studies of Shakespeare’s sonnets and Dickinson’s poems are classic contemporary examples. But as Moretti argues in “Conjectures on World…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Computational ‘tools as offering provocations, surfacing evidence, suggesting patterns and structures, or adumbrating trends
Further, it is not merely the quantification of research which was traditionally qualitative that is offered with these approaches. Rather, as Unsworth argues, we should think of these computational ‘tools as offering provocations, surfacing evidence, suggesting patterns and…
The ‘computational turn’ inevitably has its doubters
The ‘computational turn’ inevitably has its doubters. Cheeseman (2011) confessed being sceptical about the computability of most of the problems he dealt with as a literary translator, editor, critic, and cultural historian, while conceding that digitisation and computation…
The humanities require new, appropriate, and digitally focused methods
The sceptic who states that data mining and pattern recognition in works of literature debases close reading ignores the prevalent mood of human action in a time of computational ubiquity – close reading has a role in the humanities, but it will not deal with the sprawl of…