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Class 8 Notes
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Preliminary Class Business
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- Segue from last class: databases and the diagrammatic:
- Relational database theory: E. F. Codd, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks," Communications of the ACM 13, no. 6 (June 1970): 377-87
- Structure of a modern "content management system" (CMS): e.g., WordPress site for The Agrippa Files
- Cf., XSLT ("Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations") for XML: e.g., "Tracker"
1. Intro to Class:
Time, History, and the Archival / Archaeological in Digital Humanities
- The humanities as historical disciplines.
- The DH commitment to historical study:
- Some early, influential examples:
- Recent. state-of-the-art examples from our course:
- The DH alliance with cultural institutions in the curatorial / preservational mission:
- The "media archaeology" movement (and analogy of "book studies" or "history of the book")
- Resources for discussion:
- Hippolyte Taine, "Introduction" to History of English Literature (1863) [online in sequential sections: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII]
- Marshall McLuhan, excerpts from Understanding Media (1964)
- Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form [PDF] (1974), pp. 86-87
- Claude Shannon, "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1963), excerpts
- Lyotard Auto-Differend Page
- The Agrippa Files
- Amodern special issue on "Network Archaeology"
- Wikipedia article page history (example)
- Internet Archive WayBack Machine (example)
- Drew S. Burk, "Living Network Ecologies: A Triptych on the Universe of Fernand Deligny -- Part 1" (2013)
- Johanna Drucker, Subjective Meteorology (2010)
- Sienna Cordoba's practicum
- Aboriginal Australia Art and Culture Centre, Alice Springs: "Dreamtime," "Meaning of the Dreamtime," "Introduction to Aboriginal Art"
- Luciana Duranti, "Archives as a Place"
- Examples of archives:
- Annals -- Example from Annals of Saint Gall (discussed in Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation; quoted in A. Liu, "Friending the Past")
- Historismus -- Example from Leopold von Ranke (discussed in Alan Liu, "Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing")
- Genealogy -- Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" [PDF] (1967)
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- (pp. 80, 81, 82, 86, 87)
- Respect des fonds (Wikipedia article on Respect des fonds)
3. Practicums
- Timeline practicums:
- Other kinds of practicums:
Readings for this Class (Instructor's Annotated Texts)
- Focal Readings
- Background: a few pieces to provoke thought about the history and intellectual traditions of mediated "pastness":
- The Idea of "Archives":
- Media Archaeology:
- Friedrich A. Kittler, from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1986, trans. 1999), "Introduction," pp. 1-19 [PDF]
- Wolfgang Ernst, from Digital Memory and the Archive (ed. Jussi Parikka, 2013)
- Jussi Parikka, from What is Media Archaeology (2012), "Archive Dynamics: Software Culture and Digital Heritage" [in course reader]
- Lisa Gitelman, from Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), "Introduction: Media as Historical Subjects" [in course reader]
- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, from Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (2008), "'Every Contact Leaves a Trace': Storage, Inscription, and Computer Forensics," pp. 36-50 [in course reader]
Class 8 Notes
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