Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 724.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: "Hope A. Greenberg" <hag@zoo.uvm.edu> (23)
Subject: Re: 14.0711 Gutenberg -> XML; Ess, "We are the Borg"
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (51)
dortmund.de>
Subject: The NEH Symposium on _The Future of Hope, End of
Utopia II_
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:36:58 +0000
From: "Hope A. Greenberg" <hag@zoo.uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: 14.0711 Gutenberg -> XML; Ess, "We are the Borg"
Francois Lachance quoted then wrote:
> > What better way is there to leave a gift to future generations than to
> > mark up documents in XHTML or XML, and who is better to do this than
> > members of the worlds largest organization of 'markup professionals',
> > namely ourselves.
>
> This development raises for me a question: what is to be the relation of
> the academy to the extra muros "amateur" (there being apparently few
> "amateurs" left within its walls), let alone to the extra muros
> "professional"?
In my more depressed moments I wonder: if the majority of the academy
chooses to abdicate its responsibility by not embracing the challenges
posed by the digital, what possible right can it have to complain about
those who do? To invoke the ad campaign for that late 20th century icon,
Lee Iococco, the number of leaders and followers is far smaller than the
number who just want to "get out of the way." It's sad to get run over by
a lousy Chrysler mini-van when what we wanted to do was build and drive
something elegant, powerful and energy efficient.
Perhaps there is comfort in the knowledge that "this too shall pass" and
that the web is a big place with room for lots of mistakes and much
beauty.
- Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont (enjoying 14 inches of snow with
more coming)
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:38:02 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: The NEH Symposium on _The Future of Hope, End of Utopia II_
Dear Humanist Scholars,
((Hi, if you are near to University of San Francisco, please drop there to
visit and hear the talk. Thank you.-Arun))
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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 10:47:24 -0800
From: Eduardo Mendieta <mendietae@usfca.edu>
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The NEH Symposium: The Future of Hope, End of Utopia II
March 27th, 6-9 pm.
Lone Mountain 140
University of San Francisco
William Blake:The Presence of Hope, The Ends of Utopia
Robert Catterall
Newcastle, England
Robert Catterall is Visiting Senior Fellow (urban studies) at Newcastle
University.He is the editor of the journal 'City:analysis of urban trends,
culture, theory, policy, action', co-author with
Manuel Castells of The Making of the Network Society: A dialogue (Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London, 2001) and is working on a book about the
emerging geo-cultural order. He devised and co-organized a conference at the
Tate Gallery on William Blake and the Regeneration of London.
Utopian Bodies: How we became Borgs
Eduardo Mendieta
University of San Francisco
Eduardo Mendieta is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of San
Francisco, and the NEH Chair for 2000-1 Academic Year. He has edited several
books, and is the author of From Hermeneutics to Semiotics: Adventures of
Transcendental Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield, Forthcoming). He is at work
on a book on utopia.
Response
Tracy Seeley
University of San Francisco
Tracy Seeley is an Associate Professor of English at the University of San
Francisco, where she teaches Victorian and 20th-century British literature,
and Post-colonial studies. She has published several essays on Virginia
Woolf, as well as essays on Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, Victorian Women's
non-fiction prose, and poet and essayist Alice Meynell. She is currently at
work on a project which combines spatial theory and poetics, an interest
which informed the Davies Seminar she co-taught, on Space and American
Cultural Values in Literature and Film. She is also co-author of two
screenplays and several works of creative non-fiction.
PRESIDING
Yoko Arisaka
University of San Francisco
Eduardo Mendieta
Assistant Professor
Philosophy Department
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Tel: (415) 422-6313
Fax: (415) 422-2346
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