Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 138.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:21:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Newcastle -- after the wine
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:49:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca>
To the attendees of the symposium hosted by
Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing
The University of Newcastle Australia
on the theme of
A Practicable Future for Computing in the Humanities
Anyone care to venture a report on the session led by Allen Renear?
I am intrigued by his contention that
<cite>
humanists don't deserve the illumination thay have gotten. For the most
part they remain quite set in their familar ways -- deploying tired
(however various) analytical strategies and rhetorical practices, that,
when combined a faint-heartedness (or is it diffedence?) about engagement
on unfamiliar ground ensures that promising wonderful new lines of
research will be mostly fumbled rather than developed.
</cite>
I suspect the attendees were able to construct a knowledge representation
that ontologically and operationally made a distinction between
"humanitsts" and "computing humanists". Was a similar distinction made
between "tired rhetoric" and appeals to novelty (the invocation of the
good of the new being by now an old ploy)? All ironic quips aside, I am
genuinely interested in learning about the tenor of this session since the
individual psychologies of key players can be determining factors in the
history of a group's knowledge practices, let alone how that history may
affect the future objects and subjects of a sociology of knowledge.
The abstracts are available in a proprietary format:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/lc/symposium/pdf/abstracts.pdf
-- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation
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