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Musings on the News and on Work
I’m unable to stop reading the news. I told myself a couple of weeks ago that I’d like to try reading more headlines and fewer articles, and I’ve succeeded to some degree, but that’s mostly because Black Twitter is more knowledgeable about what’s going in the American political sphere than some mainstream media outlets are.…
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Music and Sound Studies Reading Group in NYC
For the past four years the Fordham University English department has sponsored the Music and Sound Studies reading group, advised by Andrew Albin and Lawrence Kramer. Each month we meet to discuss a reading in this burgeoning field, and we welcome any scholars in the New York City area to join us. If you’d like to be included in the…
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Blog Post 2
The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why? To make…
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Scenario: Library on Fire?
I am sitting in Dartmouth’s library writing an essay when all of a sudden a fire breaks out. Firefighters run into the building and order everyone to evacuate the premises. It is clear that the building will be demolished by the flames and that there is no chance to save all of the books and…
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The Collaborative Era of Print and Digital Text
Yin Liu’s argument in “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People,” that we ought not subscribe to a singular notion of “text,” persuaded me and encouraged me to investigate my own presumptions and assumptions about text. Personally, I am predisposed to conceptualizing a text as a stable and…
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Open Up
“The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why?” If…
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The Burning Library
If a library was burning to the ground, and I could only save a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or the book digitally transcribed, then which would I choose? Obviously one could take the book and derive the other two from that with some amount of work.…
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Special Collections and Archives
Yin Liu, in “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People,” raises an interesting point about the varied ways in which notions of text vary with time by identifying four models: material, structural, semantic, and data. But I wish she would have made more explicit the symbiotic relationship between physical books…
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Hastac and the Collaborative Humanities
Hastac is a digital site for collaboration between people who are involved in at least one of the following: the humanities, arts, science, and technology. As both a platform and a framing device, hastac is primarily great because it consolidates and streamlines collaborative work on much anything that people are passionate about. …
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What is Hastac?
Hastac.org is a social network that is meant for academics, rather than reconnecting with high school friends. The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory brings together academics from all fields to share knowledge and work on projects together. This includes collaborating on projects in the Digital Humanities, which is one of the reasons…