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Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities
- Dorothy Kim (editor)
- Adeline Koh (editor)
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| Title | Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities |
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| Contributor | Dorothy Kim (editor) |
| Adeline Koh (editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0274.1.00 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/alternative-historiographies-of-the-digital-humanities/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Kim, Dorothy; Koh, Adeline |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Publication place | Earth, Milky Way |
| Published on | 2021-06-24 |
| ISBN | 978-1-953035-57-8 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-953035-58-5 (PDF) | |
| Long abstract | In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot writes that by examining the process of history we can “discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences others.” Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities examines the process of history in the narrative of the digital humanities and deconstructs its history as a straight line from the beginnings of humanities computing. By discussing alternatives histories of the digital humanities that address queer gaming, feminist game studies praxis, Cold War military-industrial complex computation, the creation of the environmental humanities, monolingual discontent in DH, the hidden history of DH in English studies, radical media praxis, cultural studies and DH, indigenous futurities, Pacific Rim postcolonial DH, the issue of scale and DH, the radical, indigenous, feminist histories of the digital database, and the possibilities for an antifascist DH, this collection hopes to re-set discussions of the straight, white origin myths of DH. Thus, this collection hopes to reexamine the silences in such a straight and white masculinist history and delineates how power comes into play to shape this straight, white DH narrative. A number of the pieces in this volume go back to the origin myth of the digital humanities to reassess the hagiography of Father Busa by reconsidering and recontextualizing his legacy and his work in relation to media archaeology, politics, Cold War maneuvers, mechanized genocide, the Third Reich, and the military-industrial complex as it has organized various fields, including Asian Studies. This reassessment of comparative genealogies — vis-à-vis Foucault — undergirds an alternative history of the Jesuit hagiography we have so far been unwilling to reexamine for its narrative use in embellishing an origin hagiography/historiography for digital humanities. Other pieces intertwine the digital humanities with other fields — area studies, Asian American Studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and environmental studies — in order to reexamine how the intersections and juxtapositions reveal silences in these histories. And finally, a number of pieces considers alternative praxes in rethinking these histories, whether it is an essay that is a game or a reevaluation of feminist media praxis. |
| Print length | 512 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 127 x 203 mm | 5" x 8" (Paperback) |
| LCCN | 2021937406 |
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Contents
Frontmatter
(pp. 1–13)- Dorothy Kim
- Adeline Koh
- Dorothy Kim
- David Golumbia
- Dorothy Kim
- Carly A. Kocurek
Cold War Computations and Imitation Games: Recalibrating the Origins of Asian American Studies
(pp. 101–119)- Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
- Arun Jacob
- Dorothy Kim
Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?
(pp. 203–241)- Edmond Y. Chang
The Self-Reflexive Praxis at the Heart of DH
(pp. 245–270)- Alexandra Juhasz
- Anastasia Salter
- Bridget Blodgett
- Viola Lasmana
Taxation against Overrepresentation?: The Consequences of Monolingualism for Digital Humanities
(pp. 333–375)- Domenico Fiormonte
- Alenda Y. Chang
An Indigenist Internet for Indigenous Futures: DH Beyond the Academy and "Preservation"
(pp. 401–425)- Siobhan Senier
- Jordan Clapper
Breaking and (Re)Making
(pp. 475–478)- Ravynn K. Stringfield
Black Scholars and Disciplinary Gatekeeping
(pp. 479–482)- Christy Hyman
- Nalubega Ross
Against Lenticular Modeling: Missives on Locating Blackness from the WhatEvery1Says Project
(pp. 489–501)- Jamal Russell
Contributors
(pp. 503–509)- Dorothy Kim
- Adeline Koh
Contributors
Dorothy Kim
(editor)Dorothy Kim teaches medieval literature at Brandeis Univer- sity. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Chris- tian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. Her book, Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and Its Material Worlds, is set to be published with the University of Pennsylvania Press. She has a forthcoming book, The Alt-Medi- eval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies from the University of Minnesota Press in 2021. She has received fellowships from the SSHRC, Ford Foundation, Fulbright, Mellon, and AAUW. She is the co-project director in the NEH-funded Scholarly Editions and Translations project An Archive of Early Middle English. She is a project co-director for the Global Middle Ages Proj- ect (http://globalmiddleages.org) and is scheduled to co-write a book with Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt University) on Medieval Global Digital Humanities for Cambridge UP for 2021. She has co-edited two collections in the Digital Humanities. The first collection, co-edited with Jesse Stommel (University of Mary Washington), on Disrupting the Digital Humanities (punctum 506 books, 2018), discusses the marginal methodologies and critical diversities in the Digital Humanities. This current volume is her second edited DH collection. She has an edited volume in the Cultural History of Race series (the Cultural History of Race 1350–1550) with Kim Coles (University of Maryland) forthcom- ing in October 2021 at Bloomsbury. She is the associate editor for the Journal of Early Middle English and the co-editor for the medieval to early modern section of Literature Compass.