Schedule

Week 0

Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Alex Gil

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Week 1

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: The (Digital) Cultural Record

Seminar | Wednesday, September 4

To Read

• Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Congress”; “El Aleph.”
• Burdick, Anne, et al. Digital_Humanities. MIT Press, 2012.
• Risam, Roopika. “Introduction: The Postcolonial Digital Cultural Record.” New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Northwestern University Press, 2018.

To Explore

• Reviews in DH. Edited by Jennifer Guiliano and Roopika Risam.

Studio

• Exercise: Building the Actual Global Library of All Things

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Week 2

Letters: Surface and Depth, WYSIWYG… or not.

Seminar | Monday, September 9

• Hayles, N. Katherine. “Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis”
• “Introduction.” Tenen, Dennis. Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017.

Studio | Wednesday, September 11

• What is Plain Text?
• Tutorial: Microsoft Visual Studio Code (Please install before class)

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Week 3

Documents: Files, Types and Cabinets

Seminar | Monday, September 16

• Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic, July 1945.
• Tagg, John. “The Archiving Machine; Or, The Camera and the Filing Cabinet.” Grey Room, no. 47 (April 1, 2012): 24–37.
• Vismann, Cornelia. “Preface” and “Law’s Writing Lesson” in Files: Law and Media Technology. Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Stanford University Press, 2008: 1–38.

To Skim

Kernighan, Brian W, and Rob Pike. “The File System” in The UNIX Programming Environment. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984: 41–65.

To Explore

Your file system and storage

Studio | Wednesday, September 18

• Tutorial: Terminal basics
• Tutorial: Pandoc (Please install before class)

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Week 4

Editions: The Point is to Change It

Seminar | Monday, September 23

• Sahle, Patrick. “What Is a Scholarly Digital Edition?” Digital Scholarly Editing : Theories and Practices, edited by Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo, Open Book Publishers, 2017, pp. 19–39.
• McGann, Jerome. “Introduction.” Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web. 1st edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

☛ Examine: The Shelley-Godwin Archive; The Rosetti Archive

Studio | Wednesday, September 25

• Tutorial: Ed
• Tutorial: Markdown

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Week 5

Bibliographies: Search Results, Works Cited, Syllabi, Catalogues, Shout-outs and If You Liked This Maybe You will Like That

Seminar | Monday, September 30

To Read

• Ahmed, Sara. “Introduction: Bringing Feminist Theory Home.” Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. [Yale Library access]
• Coman, Jonah. “Trans Citation Practices — a Quick-and-Dirty Guideline.” Medium, 18 Mar. 2021.
• Godin, Benoît. “On the Origins of Bibliometrics.” Scientometrics, vol. 68, no. 1, July 2006, pp. 109–33. akjournals.com.
• Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Table of Contents.” Introduction to Bibliography. Book Arts Press, 2002.

To Explore

The Open Syllabus Project; Goldsby, Jacqueline, and Meredith L. McGill. “Black Bibliography Project.”

Studio | Wednesday, October 2 | Virtual

• Ed continued
• Zotero

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Week 6

Data: Given and Taken, then We Use It as a Brush.

Special Guest: Dr. Lauren Klein

Seminar | Monday, October 7

To Read

• Klein, Lauren F., et al. “Every Datapoint a Person.” Data by Design. 2024.
• Drucker, Johanna. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 005, no. 1, Mar. 2011.
• Sá Pereira, Moacir P. de. “Representation Matters.” Torn Apart/Separados. June 2018. xpmethod.columbia.edu.
• Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe, vol. 12, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1–14.

To Explore

• Torn Apart/Separados
• (Un)Silencing Slavery

Studio | Wednesday, October 9

• CSVs
• YAML

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Week 7

Libraries: Exhibits, Archives, Collections, Databases

Seminar | Monday, October 14

Discussion Lead: Luis

• Wilson-Lee, Edward. (Selections). The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library. EPub edition, William Collins, 2018.
• da Silva, Natália Marques, et al. ”Digitization as Revival: A Case Study of the Musée Ogier-Fombrun.” archipelagos journal, no. 6, Mar. 2020. archipelagosjournal.org.
• Berry, Dorothy. “Take Me into the Library and Show Me Myself: Toward Authentic Accessibility in Digital Libraries.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 3 (2022): 111–26.

☛ Examine: La Gazette Royale d’Haïti; Colored Conventions Project

OCTOBER RECESS 🍂

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Week 8

Algorithmic Approaches to Corpora: Analysis

Seminar | Monday, October 21

Discussion Lead: Grace

To Read

• Underwood, Ted. Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

To Explore

The Viral Texts Project;

Studio | Wednesday, October 23

• Tutorial: Voyant Tools

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Week 9

Algorithmic Approaches to Corpora: Creation

Seminar | Monday, October 28

Discussion Lead: Nuria

To Read

• Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Library of Babel” (1941); “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940)
• (Selections) Tenen, Dennis. Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)

To Explore

• Basile, Jonathan. “The Library of Babel” (2015)
• Montfort, Nick and Stephanie Strickland. “Sea and Spar in Between.” The Winter Anthology. 3. (2011)

Studio

• Tutorial: Co-Pilot

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Week 10

Our Themes

Seminar | Monday, November 4

Discussion Lead: Ji

This week is dedicated to themes you want to explore.

Studio | Wednesday, November 6

• Project work

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Week 11

Craft: Collaboration, Divisions of Labor, Project Management

Project Work | Monday, November 11, Wednesday, November 13

• Setting up our team.

To Explore

☛ The Praxis Network

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Week 12

Machines: Minimal Computing, Computing a little

Seminar | Monday, November 18

Discussion Lead: Alejandra

To Read

• Risam, Roopika, and Alex Gil. “Introduction: The Questions of Minimal Computing.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. 16.2. 2022

To Explore

☛ A replica of the Turing machine

Studio | Wednesday, November 20

• A very gentle introduction to algorithmic thinking and practice with Python

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Week 13

Exeunt to the World: Workers of the record, unite!

Seminar | Monday, December 2

Discussion Lead: Sophia and Keiara

• Benjamin, Ruha. “Default Discrimination.” Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity, 2019.
• The Nimble Tents Toolkit
• pirate.care.syllabus▒▒▒🐙

☛ Examine: SUCHO

The Final Week

Curtains: Nerves, Celebration and Joy

[Location TBD]

On the final week we will simply celebrate each other’s works and collegiality.