Author: chad wellmon
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The Humanities’ Permanent Crisis: An Interview with Jeff Bilbro
A few weeks ago, I spoke with Jeff Bilbro of the Liberating Arts about “The Humanities’ Permanent Crisis.” In a wide-ranging interview, we discussed Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, the history and future of the humanities, liberal learning,…
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Information: Keywords
Just out from Columbia University Press Information: Keywords, edited by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan Abel. With chapters on algorithm, archive, cognition, index, keyword, and more, this volume has some brilliant scholars, including Katherine Hayles, Dan Rosenberg, Bernard Dionysius…
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Text, Data, and the Infrastructure of Knowledge
This spring Andrew Piper and I are teaching a graduate seminar titled “Text, Data, and the Infrastructure of knowledge. Here’s the description: In this seminar, we will consider a broad range of questions concerning the preservation, circulation, reproduction, and interpretation…
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The Page Image
I’ve got a new essay out with Andrew Piper and Mohamed Cheriet titled “The Page Image: Towards a Visual History of Digital Documents.” It was published in the most recent volume of Book History. Here’s a paragraph from the introduction…
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