I code, you code, we code…Why Code?
Forget the Year of the Dragon. It’s the Year of The Code. I am code-literate; that is, I can play with variables and arrays just enough to exercise some control over projects. But I don’t code. And I don’t think I, you, or we necessarily must code. I do think, however, that those of us who call ourselves digital humanists–or …
Reading the Cemetery
[a side trip on the way to the dissertation] Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia epitomizes the cemetery as narrative. An outgrowth of the garden cemetery movement of the mid-nineteenth century, its shaded pathways overlooking the tumult of the James River wind among ancient trees and over slopes of well-tended lawns and flowering bushes. They frame gravesites of familiar people, a …
Dublin Core (and Omeka): a project prequel
The phrase Dublin Core might well conjure a folksonomy of James Joyce, Sweet Molly Malone, The Pogues (okay, not strictly Dubliners), the Chester Beatty, Jameson and Guinness. And if it does, this one’s for you. Actually, the referenced Dublin is Dublin, Ohio, site of the first exploratory Core workshop; the Core itself, 15 basic descriptors to classify, identify, and categorize …
Hacking the dissertation, future tense
A few weeks ago, I officially advanced to candidacy in American history at George Mason University, and I took my first trip as an ABD to the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, for research in the business records of Tredegar Iron Works. Over one hundred years of ledgers, accounts, patents, letters, advertisements—the paper evidence of corporate structure and process—are …
With apologies to students of Roberto Rossellini for decontextualizing a complex film
(Written for History 615: History and Cartography (2007)) In 1950, Roberto Rossellini directed The Flowers of St. Francis. In the movie, Brother Francis (not yet saint) directs one monk to cook for the other friars. The cook throws the brotherhood’s entire available supply of food into a giant cauldron which appears to be the height and width of a small …
Whence the corporation in America?
Characterized as anti-republican bastions of privilege and exclusion, advocated by supporters as associations that created economic opportunity and equality, the early business corporation in America “faithfully reflected the society that gave it form,” according to Pauline Maier. Ideological conflicts of the American Revolution—decisions about where power would reside, about regulation and control influenced the political and legal evolution of corporate …
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- University of Maryland, Networked Intelligentsia February 22, 2012
- Google's Virtual Light: The Digital Humanities as a Space for Cognitive Dissidence? February 22, 2012
- NYC Novels by Decades February 22, 2012
- Investigating the Krause Innovation Studio's Built Pedagogy February 22, 2012